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Untapping the Health Enhancing Potential of Vigorous Intermittent Lifestyle Physical Activity (VILPA): Rationale, Scoping Review, and a 4-Pillar Research Framework

Abstract

Recently revised public health guidelines acknowledge the health benefits of regular intermittent bouts of vigorous intensity incidental physical activity done as part of daily living, such as carrying shopping bags, walking uphill, and stair climbing. Despite this recognition and the advantages such lifestyle physical activity has over continuous vigorous intensity structured exercise, a scoping review we conducted revealed that current …

Authors

Stamatakis E; Huang B-H; Maher C; Thøgersen-Ntoumani C; Stathi A; Dempsey PC; Johnson N; Holtermann A; Chau JY; Sherrington C

Journal

Sports Medicine, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 1–10

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

January 2021

DOI

10.1007/s40279-020-01368-8

ISSN

0112-1642