Endurance involved 45 minutes of walking or running. The resistance group completed a circuit of eight machine-based exercises, such as back extensions, crunches, pulldowns, seated rowing, seated leg curls and extensions, seated chest presses and lying leg presses.
The interval training group, meanwhile, were asked to perform HIIT according to the “4×4” method: Individuals exerted themselves to their maximum four times for four-minute sessions, punctuated by three-minute segments of lower intensity exercise.
Of the total participants, 124 finished the study. The research team compared the telomere lengths of the volunteers before and after the six-month regime.
Related: Two minutes of high-intensity exercise provides same benefit as 30-minute moderate workout
The study published in the journal European Heart Journal showed HIIT and endurance training lengthened telomeres and boosted telomerase activity. But resistance training didn’t produce the same results.
Researchers were surprised to find there was a “clear difference between endurance training and resistance training with regard to telomere regulation.”
Ioakim Spyridopoulos, a professor of cardiology and cardiovascular gerontology at Newcastle University, in the U.K., told Newsweek: “The most surprising result is that aerobic exercise, but not resistance training, induced telomerase activity.”
He explained this not only leads to longer telomeres, which are “regarded as the clock of life,” but these forms of exercise were also found to have a beneficial effect on inflammation in the body.
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Connie Dello Buono is based in Sunnyvale California. Her first ebook is about women's health, Birthing Ways Healing Ways and her recent one is about cancer prevention, Curated Healing Ways. She had helped women have holistic childbirth as childbirth educator, founded Motherhealth, to serve seniors in the bay area with holistic caregivers and blogs at www.clubalthea.com with more than 10,000 health and finance related posts.
Connie trains her own caregivers, which are the favorites of most bay area seniors who are home bound and alone.
She is active in the rehab and nursing facilities, volunteering on music and movement for seniors.
She is a member of Lion's club and offered scholarships to students in the Philippines.
She is active at churchinsunnyvale.us and has Fridays Bible home study in Sunnyvale using the recovery version of the Bible , free at biblesforamerica.us
She loves dancing and teaching and her courses can be found at
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She is California Life Insurance licensed providing life insurance for older adults with health issues and helping women retire safely with income for life.
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