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Physical Demands of Exergaming in Healthy Young Adults
- Source :
- Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 33:1978-1986
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019.
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Abstract
- Tietjen, AMJ and Devereux, GR. Physical demands of exergaming in healthy young adults. J Strength Cond Res 33(7): 1978-1986, 2019-The efficacy of whole-body exergaming (WBE) in healthy young adults remains largely unknown. This study aimed to: (a) compare the physical demands of WBE in healthy adults with traditional exercise; (b) determine whether the physical demands of WBE were reproducible. Twenty-five healthy adults (age: 22.9 ± 6.4 years; height: 1.7 ± 0.1 m; mass: 69.1 ± 12.2 kg) completed two 10-minute experimental conditions (WBE on the Xbox Kinect and treadmill walking) in a randomized cross-over design study. Whole-body exergaming produced a significant increase in the peak heart rate (138 ± 23 b·min), oxygen consumption (40 ± 13 ml·kg·min), metabolic equivalents (METs) (11 ± 4) compared with treadmill walking (115 ± 18 b·min, 25 ± 5 ml·kg·min, 7 ± 2 MET) and a modest increase in the mean heart rate (111 ± 19 b·min vs. 104 ± 15 b·min). Whole-body exergaming produced significantly greater vertical (381 ± 118 vs. 127 ± 14 % body mass [%BM]), anterior (70 ± 22 vs. 27 ± 4 %BW), and medial (56 ± 21 vs. 7 ± 2 %BW) ground reaction forces. No difference was present in mean oxygen consumption and MET. The reproducibility of WBE was assessed in a subgroup of 11 participants (age: 24.2 ± 6.7 years; height: 1.8 ± 0.1 m; mass: 75.3 ± 10.0 kg), who completed 2 additional 10-minute WBE sessions. No difference was observed between all outcome measures. These findings indicate that WBE can reliably replicate, or surpass, the physical demands of treadmill walking and may serve as an effective addition to a health-focused exercise program.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Physical Exertion
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Walking
Treadmill walking
Metabolic equivalent
Random Allocation
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Oxygen Consumption
0302 clinical medicine
Exercise program
Heart Rate
Internal medicine
Metabolic Equivalent
Heart rate
Humans
Medicine
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
Exercise physiology
Exercise
Cross-Over Studies
030504 nursing
business.industry
Outcome measures
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Crossover study
Video Games
Exercise Test
Cardiology
Female
0305 other medical science
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10648011
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....85a4ac7455fd19102b6ce140795770c9
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000002235