Adherence
Standardized resistance training protocols produce wide, idiosyncratic variation in clinical outcomes (glucose metabolism, strength, body composition) among adherent prediabetic adults, necessitating personalized adaptive interventions rather than one-size-fits-all approaches.
If you are doing resistance training and not seeing expected improvements in blood sugar or strength despite attending all sessions, do not assume you are failing. Your body may simply be a 'non-responder' to that specific stimulus. Consult a professional to adapt your program (e.g., change exercise type, intensity, or add dietary interventions) rather than just increasing effort.
The data show a typical pattern of wide variation for changes on a 2-h oral glucose tolerance test... lean body mass, fat mass, strength, and blood pressure to the same resistance training protocol... A personalized behavioral medicine approach could focus on such individual patterns of response variation to tailor and alter additional intervention components...
Why this rating
Randomized controlled trial with high adherence and multiple objective physiological measures, though focused on a specific subgroup (prediabetic, older adults).
Source
Using response variation to develop more effective, personalized behavioral medicine?: evidence from the Resist Diabetes study
Richard A. Winett et al. · Translational Behavioral Medicine · 2014
DOI 10.1007/s13142-014-0263-2
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