Upper-Body Resistance Training and Self-Efficacy Enhancement in COPD

Moinuddin IK, Collins EG, Kramer HJ, Leehey DJ. Upper-Body Resistance Training and Self-Efficacy Enhancement in COPD. Journal of obesity & weight loss therapy. 2012 Mar 9; 2(2):1-12.

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Obesity is associated with significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. A weight loss strategy including diet and exercise is routinely recommended to achieve weight loss and cardiovascular risk reduction. Although the benefits of exercise for cardiovascular risk reduction are well accepted, exercise is generally thought to be less effective than caloric restriction in achieving and maintaining weight loss and to be most useful when coupled with diet and especially to maintain weight loss achieved by diet. However, similar weight loss to that achieved with diet can occur providing energy deficits are comparable. This however may necessitate efforts to curb a compensatory increase in caloric intake associated with exercise. Even in the absence of weight loss, exercise has many beneficial effects, including a decrease both abdominal and visceral fat, an increase in lean body mass, and improvements in insulin sensitivity, lipid profile, and cardiovascular fitness.