EXERCISE PRESCRIPTIONS FOR VARIOUS HEALTHY SCENARIOS

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EXERCISE PRESCRIPTIONS FOR VARIOUS HEALTHY SCENARIOS

The general exercise prescription principles for the range of improving health to treating disease conditions is summarized below.

	Physical Activity & Health	Physical Work Capacity	Exercise Treatment
Mode	Any physical activity >2.5 METs	Cardiorespiratory Endurance Groups 1 -3	Cardiorespiratory Endurance, Primarily Group 1 & non-weight bearing or walking
Frequency	Most, if not all days of the week	3 -5 per week	3-5 per day 3-5 per week
Duration	>30 min	30-60 min	5-10 min in-patient 20-60 min
Intensity	Moderate (40-60% VO2max)	Vigorous (60-80% VO2max)	Recommended per disease or disability
Precautions	None required	Specific to disease or disability	Specific to disease or disability
Recommendations	Specific to diet, stress, or smoking cessation	Specific to diet, stress, or smoking cessation	Specific to diet, stress, or smoking cessation

More specific exercise prescriptions for improving and maintaining physical work capacity are summarized below

	Improve Physical Work Capacity for Sedentary	Maintain Physical Work Capacity	Improve Physical Work Capacity for Active
Mode	Cardiorespiratory Endurance Groups 1 -3	Cardiorespiratory Endurance Groups 1 -3	Cardiorespiratory Endurance Groups 1 -3
Frequency	3-4 per week	2-3 per week	add 1-2 per week
Duration	30-40 min	20-30 min	add 10-20 min not to exceed 60 min
Intensity	The lower range of (60 + maxMETs)/100	same intensity	The upper range of (60 + maxMETs)/100
Precautions	None required	Specific to disease or disability	Specific to disease or disability
Recommendations	Specific to diet, stress, or smoking cessation	Specific to diet, stress, or smoking cessation	Specific to diet, stress, or smoking cessation

If an active client presents with a high fitness you may not need to change their exercise prescription.

Exercise prescriptions are different for each disease process. See each disease

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