Progressive resistance training for frailty

Patient and clinician perspectives

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Patient perspectives

People talk about their experiences and the benefits of progressive resistance training.

Sylvia McGregor

Robert Willis

Johanna

Francis Burns

Denise Mackie

Clinician perspectives

Clinicians discuss various aspects of working with progressive resistance training for people living with frailty.

About frailty

What is frailty?

Screening for frailty

Opportunities to assess for frailty

About progressive resistance training

Exercise as medicine: benefits and modalities

What is progressive resistance training?

Encouraging prescription of progressive resistance training

Prescribing progressive resistance training as business as usual

Are there risks to prescribing progressive resistance training?

Prescribing progressive resistance training

Exercise is medicine: keeping motivated

Don't underdose - prescribe resisted exercise

Intensity and frequency of progressive resistance training

What is one repetition maximum (1RM)?

No one is too old or frail to benefit from progressive resistance training

Progressive resistance training for patients in hospital

Where can people do progressive resistance training?

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