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RESEARCH NEWS Why Four
Workouts A Week May Be Better Than Six
A study of 72 women (aged between 60 and 74-years-old) has shown working out four times a week (2 x sessions of aerobic workouts and 2 x resistance workouts) offers maximum results.
Researchers at the University of Alabama in the USA, divided the 72 women into three exercise groups. One group lifted weights once a week and jogged or rode a bike on another day. The second group took part in weight-lifting and endurance activities four times a week and the third group completed six weekly workouts.
Researchers tracked the women’s blood levels of cytokines (a substance related to stress); measured the women’s aerobic capacities, muscle strength and body fat; and assessed energy expenditure over the course of each week.
At the end of the four-month experiment all of the 72 women had increased endurance and strength, and lost body fat. Fitness results across the groups were much the same and there was no discernible difference in cytokine levels.
However, researchers concluded the women who exercised four times a week were burning an additional 200 plus calories each day compared to levels at the beginning of the trial. Those who exercised twice a week were burning on average an extra 68 calories a day while those working-out six times a week used 150 fewer calories a day than they had before.
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Professionalisation! The building blocks of REPs have been used to develop a further family of Registers which aim to serve the same purpose as REPs, to professionalise, to offer assurance and to act as a regulatory body for people working in industry.
Earlier this year, the Register of Aquatic Professionals (RAPs) and the Register of Playwork Professionals were introduced to England. Like REPs, RAPs and the Register of Playwork Professionals are owned and operated by SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure & Wellbeing.
RAPs receives support from the aquatic industry and has been developed working closely with; the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA), the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) and the Swimming Teachers Association (STA). Whilst the Register of Playwork Professionals is supported by key playwork industry organisations including Play England, Kids and Unite amongst others.
RAPs and the Playwork Register have entered into pilot phase and are well under way. The pilots will go through a review stage and will be fully launched to members of the aquatic and playwork industries this summer and autumn respectively. If you think you would be eligible to join either of the new Registers, we would encourage you to visit www.aquaticregsiter.org and www.playworkregister.org.