Exercise Testing and Prescription / 한양의대학술지

ABSTRACT

The benefits of exercises and physical activities have been proven for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular morbidity and many illnesses. To workout safely, medical examination and exercise testing should be done prior to exercise. Cardiac disease and musculoskeletal problems should be ruled out by medical examination and test. The result of exercise testing is the basic data for exercise prescription because of wide range of fitness on the same age and sex. Cardiopulmonary endurance, muscle strength and endurance, flexibility and balance ability are the basic components of fitness measurement. Appropriate method to assess fitness among various methods can be used. Moderate aerobic exercise is recommended to be done more than 30minutes a day, 5 times a week. Recently 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week is being recommended. Vigorous aerobic exercise more than 20 minutes a day 3 times a week or 75 minutes a week is recommended. Muscle strengthening and endurance exercise is recommended to be done 2~3 times a week