{"id":245,"date":"2017-01-23T05:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T05:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-01-24T05:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T05:12:15","slug":"why-your-exercise-routine-might-not-be-working-find-out-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Why your Exercise Routine might not be Working? Find out Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Not everyone sees their fitness levels rise despite upping the ante with their exercise regime. In fact, \u2018non-responders\u2019 as those who don&#8217;t respond to their exercise are called by experts, are surprisingly common. A new study has found that just because we\u2019re not reaping the rewards from our current exercise routine, doesn\u2019t mean we should give up entirely, though. Instead, you might just need to switch what you&#8217;re doing at the gym.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Queen\u2019s University and the University of Ottawa took 21 men and women and put them through three weeks of either continuous endurance (continuous cycling) or sprint interval training for four days a week. The group&#8217;s fitness levels were assessed and then are a three-month break to restore their original fitness, participants then completed three weeks of the other type of training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs these training protocols are fundamentally opposite, we used them to test our hypothesis that individuals will respond differently to different types of exercise training,\u201d explains lead author Jacob Bonafiglia.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the study, the group\u2019s fitness level as a whole improved, however when researchers drilled down into individuals performances they found that one-third didn\u2019t respond to endurance and roughly the same amount didn\u2019t show any improvement after three weeks on interval training. Importantly, no one was worse off from participating, but the study proved that one type of exercise doesn\u2019t necessarily suit all.<\/p>\n<p>How do you find out if your regime is working for you?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simplest approach is completing some sort of exercise test such as walking or running a certain distance or climbing sets of stairs and monitoring how you feel,\u201d says Bonafiglia. \u201cAfter a couple of weeks of following your regime, repeat the exercise test and reassess how you feel. If you feel better, the exercise training is likely working for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were primarily completing endurance style exercise, try experimenting with higher intensity interval training.\u201d Essentially, it\u2019s a matter of trial and error.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/beauty\/body\/exercise-routine-might-not-working-at-home-test-can-try-find\/\">Telegraph<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone sees their fitness levels rise despite upping the ante with their exercise regime. In fact, \u2018non-responders\u2019 as those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[10,13,14],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-exercise","tag-alternative-medicine","tag-articles","tag-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}