High-intensity exercise training can help older people live longer as it showed a marked effect on fitness and overall well-being, according to a new study.
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‘Twice-a-week high-intensity training has a marked effect on fitness and overall well being in people over 70.
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Researchers, healthcare professionals, and people worldwide are eager to discover the answer to the question: Can exercise give older people a longer and healthier life? Generation 100 is the first significant study that can tell us that, and Stensvold has promising news.![twitter](https://images.medindia.net/icons/news/social/twitter.png)
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"Among most 70-77-year-olds in Norway, 90 percent will survive next five years. In the Generation 100 study, over 95 percent of the 1500 participants survived!" she stated.
The five-year-long study, which started in 2012, randomly divided healthy participants into three different exercise training groups.
One group was assigned to high-intensity exercise training, while group two was instructed to train at a steady, moderate-intensity and the third group is the control group.
The study found that both physical and mental quality of life was better in the high-intensity group after five years compared to the other two groups. High-intensity interval training also had the greatest positive effect on fitness.
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