All Outputs (12)

The effectiveness and acceptability of physical activity interventions amongst older adults with lower socioeconomic status: a mixed methods systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Harris, D., Dlima, S. D., Gluchowski, A., Hall, A., Elliott, E., & Munford, L. (in press). The effectiveness and acceptability of physical activity interventions amongst older adults with lower socioeconomic status: a mixed methods systematic review. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 21(1), Article 121. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-024-01666-8

Background: Older adults with lower socioeconomic status are less likely to be physically active than those with higher socioeconomic status. To inform future intervention development, this review explored: [i] how effective are physical activity int... Read More about The effectiveness and acceptability of physical activity interventions amongst older adults with lower socioeconomic status: a mixed methods systematic review.

Implementation of a digital exercise programme in health services to prevent falls in older people (2024)
Journal Article
E Taylor, M., Ambrens, M., Hawley-Hague, H., Todd, C., C T Close, J., R Lord, S., …Delbaere, K. (2024). Implementation of a digital exercise programme in health services to prevent falls in older people. Age and ageing, 53(8), afae173. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae173

Background: StandingTall uses eHealth to deliver evidence-based balance and functional strength exercises. Clinical trials have demonstrated improved balance, reduced falls and fall-related injuries and high adherence. This study aimed to evaluate th... Read More about Implementation of a digital exercise programme in health services to prevent falls in older people.

Individual strength changes following a very brief intervention on national strength training guidelines in adults aged 50 - 75 years (2024)
Journal Article
Gluchowski, D. A. (2024). Individual strength changes following a very brief intervention on national strength training guidelines in adults aged 50 - 75 years. https://doi.org/10.31189/2165-7629-13-s2.351

BACKGROUND There is little evidence that the public or healthcare practitioners are aware of and implementing the strength training component of the United Kingdom’s (UK) Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines in practice. Our study aim... Read More about Individual strength changes following a very brief intervention on national strength training guidelines in adults aged 50 - 75 years.

Population-based interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people (2024)
Journal Article
Lewis, S. R., McGarrigle, L., Pritchard, M. W., Bosco, A., Yang, Y., Gluchowski, A., …Todd, C. (in press). Population-based interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people. Cochrane Library, 1(1), CD013789. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD013789.pub2

Around one-third of older adults aged 65 years or older who live in the community fall each year. Interventions to prevent falls can be designed to target the whole community, rather than selected individuals. These population-level interventions may... Read More about Population-based interventions for preventing falls and fall-related injuries in older people.

Exercise instructors are not consistently implementing the strength component of the UK chief medical officers’ physical activity guidelines in their exercise prescription for older adults (2023)
Journal Article
Gluchowski, A., Bilsborough, H., McDermott, J., Hawley-Hague, H., & Todd, C. (2023). Exercise instructors are not consistently implementing the strength component of the UK chief medical officers’ physical activity guidelines in their exercise prescription for older adults. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 2432. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17289-w

Strength training recommendations have been embedded within the UK’s Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines since 2011. There is limited evidence that these recommendations are used by exercise instructors in the community to underpin s... Read More about Exercise instructors are not consistently implementing the strength component of the UK chief medical officers’ physical activity guidelines in their exercise prescription for older adults.

Exploring the delivery of remote physiotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: UK wide service evaluation (2023)
Journal Article
Hawley-Hague, H., Gluchowski, A., Lasrado, R., Martinez, E., Akhtar, S., Stanmore, E., & Tyson, S. (in press). Exploring the delivery of remote physiotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: UK wide service evaluation. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2023.2247069

Introduction
During the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, physiotherapists changed rapidly to working remotely. Research demonstrates the benefits of remote physiotherapy, but little is known about its implementation in practice.

Purpose
Explore... Read More about Exploring the delivery of remote physiotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: UK wide service evaluation.

Exercise instructors in the UK are not using the physical activity guidelines to inform their strength prescription with older adults (2022)
Journal Article
Gluchowski, A., Bilsborough, H., Mcdermott, J., Hawley-Hague, H., & Todd, C. (in press). Exercise instructors in the UK are not using the physical activity guidelines to inform their strength prescription with older adults. https://doi.org/10.51224/srxiv.235

Strength recommendations have been embedded within the UK’s Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines since 2011. There is limited evidence that these recommendations are used by exercise instructors in the community to underpin strength p... Read More about Exercise instructors in the UK are not using the physical activity guidelines to inform their strength prescription with older adults.

‘A Lot of People Just Go for Walks, and Don’t Do Anything Else’: Older Adults in the UK Are Not Aware of the Strength Component Embedded in the Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines—A Qualitative Study (2022)
Journal Article
Gluchowski, A., Bilsborough, H., Mcdermott, J., Hawley-Hague, H., & Todd, C. (2022). ‘A Lot of People Just Go for Walks, and Don’t Do Anything Else’: Older Adults in the UK Are Not Aware of the Strength Component Embedded in the Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines—A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16), 10002. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191610002

Strength recommendations have been embedded within the UK’s Chief Medical Officers’ physical activity guidelines since 2011. In 2019, they were given a more prominent position in the accompanying infographic. However, there is limited evidence that t... Read More about ‘A Lot of People Just Go for Walks, and Don’t Do Anything Else’: Older Adults in the UK Are Not Aware of the Strength Component Embedded in the Chief Medical Officers’ Physical Activity Guidelines—A Qualitative Study.

‘I have a renewed enthusiasm for going to the gym’: what keeps resistance-trained older adults coming back to the gym? (2018)
Journal Article
Gluchowski, A., Warbrick, I., Oldham, T., & Harris, N. (2018). ‘I have a renewed enthusiasm for going to the gym’: what keeps resistance-trained older adults coming back to the gym?. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 10(3), 333-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2018.1431305

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that were responsible for the feelings of satisfaction and the behaviours of adherence to an intense exercise intervention recently completed by resistance-trained older adults. A total of 21 heal... Read More about ‘I have a renewed enthusiasm for going to the gym’: what keeps resistance-trained older adults coming back to the gym?.

Comparing the effects of two distinct eccentric modalities to traditional resistance training in resistance trained, higher functioning older adults (2017)
Journal Article
Gluchowski, A., Dulson, D., Merien, F., Plank, L., & Harris, N. (2017). Comparing the effects of two distinct eccentric modalities to traditional resistance training in resistance trained, higher functioning older adults. Experimental Gerontology, 98, 224-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exger.2017.08.034

Background
The effects of eccentric resistance exercise are of interest in the older adult cohort, but to our knowledge, there is no research on the relative effects of different eccentric modalities on a range of outcomes in higher functioning, res... Read More about Comparing the effects of two distinct eccentric modalities to traditional resistance training in resistance trained, higher functioning older adults.

Acute Physiological Responses to Strongman Training Compared to Traditional Strength Training (2016)
Journal Article
Harris, N. K., Woulfe, C. J., Wood, M. R., Dulson, D. K., Gluchowski, A. K., & Keogh, J. B. (2016). Acute Physiological Responses to Strongman Training Compared to Traditional Strength Training. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 30(5), 1397-1408. https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000001217

Strongman training (ST) has become an increasingly popular modality, but data on physiological responses are limited. This study sought to determine physiological responses to an ST session compared to a traditional strength exercise training (RST) s... Read More about Acute Physiological Responses to Strongman Training Compared to Traditional Strength Training.

Chronic Eccentric Exercise and the Older Adult (2015)
Journal Article
Gluchowski, A., Harris, N., Dulson, D., & Cronin, J. (2015). Chronic Eccentric Exercise and the Older Adult. Sports Medicine, 45(10), 1413-1430. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-015-0373-0

Eccentric exercise has gained increasing attention as a suitable and promising intervention to delay or mitigate the known physical and physiological declines associated with aging. Determining the relative efficacy of eccentric exercise when compare... Read More about Chronic Eccentric Exercise and the Older Adult.