Open AccessHypoxic Exercise Training to Improve Exercise Capacity in Obese Individuals
Author(s) -
Samarmar Chacaroun,
Anna Borowik,
Ignacio Vega-Escamilla Y Gonzalez,
Stéphane Doutreleau,
Bernard Wuyam,
Elise Belaïdi,
Renaud Tamisier,
Jean-Louis Pépin,
Patrice Flore,
Samuel Vergès
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0000000000002322
Subject(s) - medicine , heart rate , vo2 max , overweight , body mass index , blood pressure , cardiology , cycling , diastole , physical therapy , endocrinology , archaeology , history
Combining exercise training with hypoxic exposure has been recently proposed as a new therapeutic strategy to improve health status of obese individuals. Whether hypoxic exercise training (HET) provides greater benefits regarding body composition and cardiometabolic parameters than normoxic exercise training (NET) remains, however, unclear. We hypothesized that HET would induce greater improvement in exercise capacity and health status than NET in overweight and obese individuals.