title: Exercise prescription for the overweight and the obese: how to quantify and yet keep it simple.
abstract: An activity point system (APS) is presented that assists healthcare providers and health professionals with a way to prescribe exercise in a semiquantitative manner and to motivate their patients to begin an exercise programme. Activity points are specific to one's body weight, body mass index and activity intensity for 10-minute bouts of activity performed. With a goal of accumulating 100-300 activity points per week, the APS provides a simple yet quantitatively accurate way to prescribe exercise for overweight and obese adults.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. Rolf.ehrsam@unibas.ch
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ehrsam
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hoerler-Koerner
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stoffel
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Melges
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ainsworth
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000628:therapy; D050177:Overweight / Q000628:therapy*; D057185:Sedentary Behavior