Hélder Dores, Mafalda Antunes, Daniel Caldeira, Hugo V Pereira
Despite the well-known health benefits of regular physical activity, sedentary behavior and physical inactivity remain a real global pandemic. Exercise is associated with increased life expectancy, improved quality of life and prevention of multiple diseases. Although less implemented in practice compared to aerobic exercise, recent evidence shows that resistance exercise (RE) is also responsible for various benefits, including improvements in body composition, control of several cardiovascular (CV) risk factors, and reduction of CV outcomes...
May 2, 2024: Portuguese Journal of Cardiology: An Official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology