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New Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines

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Tremblay, Mark S., Warburton, Darren E.R., Janssen, Ian, Paterson, Donald H., Latimer, Amy E., Rhodes, Ryan E., Kho, Michelle E., Hicks, Audrey +4 more·2011·Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism

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The Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP), in cooperation with ParticipACTION and other stakeholders, and with support from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), has developed the new Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines for Children (aged 5–11 years), Youth (aged 12–17 years), Adults (aged 18–64 years), and Older Adults (aged ≥65 years). The new guidelines include a preamble to provide context and specific guidelines for each age group. The entire guideline development process was guided by the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument, which is the international standard for clinical practice guideline development. Thus, the guidelines have gone through a rigorous and transparent developmental process; we based the recommendations herein on evidence from 3 systematic reviews, and the final guidelines benefitted from an extensive online and in-person consultation process with hundreds of stakeholders and key informants, both domestic and international. Since 2006, the products of our efforts resulted in the completion of 21 peer-reviewed journal articles (including 5 systematic reviews) that collectively guided this work. The process that Canadian researchers undertook to update the national physical activity guidelines represents the most current synthesis, interpretation, and application of the scientific evidence to date.

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  • If optimal or more substantial muscle strength, endurance, and hypertrophy gains are the goal, multiple weekly training sessions are recommended over single weekly sessions, especially for more highly trained or active individuals.

    “Although there is some disagreement [59], if optimal or more substantial muscle strength, endurance, and hypertrophy gains are the goal, then multiple weekly training sessions are recommended over single weekly sessions, especially for the more highly trained or active individuals [19, 25, 26, 30, 49, 51–56].”

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    The Guidelines section (page unavailable) recommends muscle- and bone-strengthening activities at least three days per week, but specifically for children and youth seeking health benefits. It does not compare multiple sessions with one weekly session for strength, endurance, or hypertrophy gains, or make a recommendation for highly trained individuals. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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Tremblay, M. S., Warburton, D. E. R., Janssen, I., Paterson, D. H., Latimer, A. E., Rhodes, R. E., Kho, M. E., Hicks, A., LeBlanc, A. G., Zehr, L., Murumets, K., & Duggan, M.
Affiliations
  • Western University (CA)
  • Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, CHEO Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada.
Venue
Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism
Published
2011-01
Volume
36
Issue
1
Pages
36-46
ISSN
  • 1715-5312 (ISSN-L)
  • 1715-5320
OpenAlex
W2164013208
Cited by
1,238
References
5
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FWCI
9.65
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Public Health Agency
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
Keywords
physical activity guidelines, Canadian physical activity guidelines, guideline development, AGREE II, children, youth, adults, older adults, exercise recommendations, stakeholder consultation, ParticipACTION
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Canada, Child, Child, Preschool, Humans, Life Style, Middle Aged, Motor Activity, Young Adult

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