It is recommended that to improve fitness, adults with SCI should engage in at least 20 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity aerobic exercise two times a week and three sets of moderate strengthening exercise for each major functional muscle groups two times per week. To improve cardiometabolic health, it is suggested they engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity aerobic exercise, three times per week.
To view the publication please visit http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2018/04/25/bjsports-2018-099202
To read more, please read the press release from Loughborough University and Peter Harrison Centre for disability sport
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/phc/news/sci-exercise-guidelines-launched-this-week.html
And http://www.ncsem-em.org.uk/sciguidelines/
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