Amsterdam Movement Sciences

Abstract: Habitual physical activity and regular exercise training are known to improve cardiovascular health and longevity. For this purpose, the World Health Organization recommends adults to perform at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity exercise or 75 minutes per week of vigorous-intensity exercise, or a combination thereof. There is, however, debate on the dose-response association between exercise volumes and cardiovascular health outcomes. In this lecture, I will discuss the minimum, optimum, and maximum exercise dose to improve cardiovascular health. Furthermore, I will address important questions in this field of research: Should we sit less or exercise more? Does exercise intensity matter? And can you perform too much exercise so that it may hurt your heart?
Bio: Thijs Eijsvogels is trained in exercise physiology at the Radboud University (PhD degree, NL), Hartford Hospital (postdoc, USA) and Liverpool John Moores University (postdoc, UK). Thijs is interested in the physiological and cardiac responses of the human body to acute and chronic (endurance) exercise performance. His research is focused on the benefits and potential deleterious effects of exercise across the whole spectrum of physical activity: from sedentary behavior to excessive volumes of exercise. Thijs’ work combines the fields of physiology, cardiology and epidemiology and studies are performed in the general population, cardiovascular patients and athletes. His goal is to find the ultimate exercise prescription for cardiovascular health improvement. More information about his research group can be found at: https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/people/thijs-eijsvogels/exercise-physiology
Groet, Thijs