Most people who live with chronic disabilities or disorders reconcile themselves to living a life of inactivity, or at best a life of basic activity, believing that intense exercises are unsafe or that they might be unable to go through the course of exercises due to the lack of endurance in doing so. However, recent studies are proving that doing just the opposite is what will bring lifelong benefits.
An increasing number of studies reveal that high-intensity exercises are far better than basic, daily aerobic activities for a number of patients with chronic conditions such as heart disorders, type II diabetes, paralytic strokes, pneumonic disorders, inflammatory diseases and Parkinson’s syndrome. These studies strongly indicate that a more intensive, challenging but highly efficient and enjoyable form of exercise known as High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT, is not only risk-free for most patients but is also highly efficient in avoiding or overriding the shortfalls connected to a number of chronic ills.
Until a short while ago, HIIT was only appropriated for athletes who sought a competitive advantage and for healthy young adults who were interested in torching more body fat. These days, the high intensity training modules are now being analysed as a remedy that could be as efficacious as medicinal drugs for a number of people with chronic disorders. A growing number of researchers are increasingly discovering that by frequently forcing the body close to its exercise limits for very short intervals, peppered with spells of relaxation, is actually proving to be far more productive than uninterrupted moderate activity at enhancing arterial, respiratory, metabolic and day-to-day activities among chronic sufferers.
Rather than exercising continuously for more than half an hour, such as walking, jogging or cycling, HIIT basically involves 30 to 60 seconds of intense exercise that pushes an individual’s ability, followed by a fairly basic recovery period of low activity, with the chain of duration recurring for a total of about 15 minutes for four times a week.
Specialists in exercise physiology and other researchers are well aware that people who are at the risk of chronic disease should exercise but do not tend to exercise, because of the fear that intense exercise might bring more harm than good. The study revealed that the participants involved in the research discovered interval training to be far more satisfying and pleasurable than continuous aerobic activities, making it more likely that people would continue to persist with HIIT exercises because of the enjoyable factor associated with it.
Among the numerous benefits derived from doing an HIIT workout–enhanced ability of absorbing oxygen and insulin, better and faster activity of arteries were some of the physiological changes seen to have been achieved. With HIIT, it was also seen that the cardiovascular system’s ability to better respond to added exertion helped in expanding the blood vessels thus improving the flow of oxygen carrying blood smoothly throughout the arteries while helping to reduce the risk of vessel blocking clot. In addition, participants also experienced reduction in rigidity and stiffness with frequent HIIT workouts. This was brought to the attention of researchers who suggested that the HIIT workout could help in stimulating the growth and function of nerves usually regulated by dopamine, the neurotransmitter that diminishes in Parkinson’s disease.
This is good news to patients experiencing debilitating conditions from chronic diseases. With the help of their medical practitioner, perhaps a brief HIIT course could go a long way in reducing their symptoms and easing their way of lives.
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