Resistance exercise snacks delivered through a mobile health app, totaling 75 minutes per week
Exercise Snacks
Resistance Exercise Snacks Improve Strength in Women
An eight-week mobile-app resistance exercise snack program was tested in 60 sedentary young women. Compared with controls, the program improved measures of maximal, explosive, and muscular endurance strength.
Study overview
- Study title
- The effects of resistance exercise snacks via a mobile health app on musculoskeletal strength in sedentary young women: a randomized controlled trial.
- Study authors
- Zhangyuting Shang, Ziren Zhao, Xin Zheng, Fangyuan Zhao, Yan Ma, Zheng Liu, Kaixiang Zhou
- Population
- Sedentary young women
- Sample size
- 30
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- Comparator
- Control group
- Outcomes
- Peak torque, Maximal force output, Standing long jump, Total work at 180°/s, Bodyweight squat repetitions
Intervention
Main findings
Significant group-by-time differences favored the exercise-snack group for all measured outcomes: peak torque, maximal force output, standing long jump, total work, and bodyweight squat repetitions.
What this may mean in practice
Snacksmate's reading of the evidence — not a quotation from the original paper.
In sedentary young women, an eight-week mobile-app resistance exercise snack program was associated with greater improvements in several strength and muscular-endurance measures than the control condition.
Limitations
The authors state that further studies should investigate the underlying physiological mechanisms.
Original study
What can you take from this?
The notes above are Snacksmate’s reading of this study, not personal advice.