Psychological needs, self-efficacy, motivation, and resistance training outcomes in a 16-week barbell training program for adults.

Background: Despite extensive research on the relationship between psychological factors and aerobic training, there remains a gap in understanding these relationships within resistance training (RT), particularly barbell-based RT. This study aimed to examine the associations between basic psychological needs, behavioral regulation, self-efficacy, and a longitudinal barbell-based RT program for adults.

Methods: Forty-three adults ( age = 45.

Biometric Screening and Future Employer Medical Costs: Is It Worth It to Know?

Objective: To study the relationship between a biometric wellness data and future/actual medical costs.

Methods: A relationship between total cholesterol to high density lipoprotein ratio, blood pressure, and blood glucose and medical costs, based on analysis of claims data, was explored in 1834 employees that had both wellness program biometric and claims data in 2016.

Result: Increased total cholesterol to HDL ratio is strongly associated with increased average costs (P < 0.

Integrating Health Coaching With a Medical Fitness Program to Treat Chronic Health Conditions.

Unlabelled: Medical fitness and health/wellness coaching (HWC) are emerging health care trends but potential synergistic effects are yet to be studied.

Purpose: To determine the impact of integrating HWC within a community-based medical fitness program for patients with chronic health conditions.

Methods: A before and after clinical trial, examining 3 frequency levels of coaching sessions, with Journey-to-Wellness (J2W) participants (N = 1306) who were predominately female (76%), aged 12 to 87 years (mean ± SD = 53.

Evaluation and management of the acutely injured worker.

Approximately 3 million work-related injuries were reported by private industries in 2011, and primary care physicians provided care for approximately one out of four injured workers. To appropriately individualize the treatment of an injured worker and expedite the return to work process, primary care physicians need to be familiar with the workers' compensation system and treatment guidelines. Caring for an injured worker begins with a medical history documenting preexisting medical conditions, use of potentially impairing medications and substances, baseline functional status, and psychosocial factors.

Safety of symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with chronic heart failure due to severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

Background: To assess the safety of symptom-limited exercise testing in patients with New York Heart Association class II-IV heart failure symptoms due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction, we investigated the frequency of all-cause fatal and nonfatal major cardiovascular (CV) events among subjects enrolled in a prospective clinical trial (HF-ACTION). We hypothesized that exercise testing would be safe, as defined by a rate for all-cause death of <0.1 per 1,000 tests and a rate of nonfatal CV events <1.