Measuring Outcomes With Validated Exercise

Description

The study involves three in person visits and a one week at home period with the first visit being an intake assessment of eligibility to participate in the study. If a participant consents to participate and meets inclusion/exclusion criteria, the participant will be scheduled for the follow on in clinic visits. The second visit is the first of two in-laboratory activity-based visits. Healthy participants will wear: 1) three wrist-worn watch-like devices, the ActiGraph CentrePoint Insight Watch (CPIW), the ActiGraph Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system (LEAP), and the GENEActiv, to measure movement, 2) a portable indirect calorimeter, the COSMED K5 Wearable Metabolic System, to measure oxygen use, 3) a heart rate monitor, the Polar Beat H10, while performing a pre-determined set of physical activities and activities of daily living, which range in intensity from sedentary to vigorous. The pre-determined activities participants will complete during the first physical activity-based visit include treadmill walking and running, posture transitions (e.g., lying, sitting, standing), ambulatory tasks, and activities of daily living which include sweeping with a broom, vacuuming, washing dishes, writing, and folding laundry. Following the completion of the first physical activity in-clinic visit, participants will complete a one week at home period. During the at home portion of the study, participants will be asked to complete the same daily living tasks previously listed, keep a daily activity diary, and wear one wrist-worn watch-like device, the ActiGraph CPIW, on their non-dominant wrist. Upon completion of the one week at home period, participants will complete their third and final in-clinic visit, where the participants will repeat all of the same activities and monitoring of movement through wearing: 1) three wrist-worn watch-like devices, the ActiGraph CPIW, the ActiGraph LEAP, and the GENEActiv, to measure movement, 2) a portable indirect calorimeter, the COSMED K5 Wearable Metabolic System, to measure oxygen use, 3) a heart rate monitor, the Polar Beat H10, while performing a pre-determined set of physical activities and activities of daily living, which range in intensity from sedentary to vigorous.