which provides a very detailed description of what the exercise protocol is, but no explanation of why. If exercise protocol was standard within the exercise research community then you would expect to either see a protocol listed by name or a lot of studies with similar methodologies. Instead we see exercise studies with all sorts of varying exercise protocols, making direct comparison harder, and meta analysis weaker.
With regard to months instead of weeks, this is based on my experience and anecdotal reports of others. A successful instillation of an exercise habit seems to counter feelings of powerlessness to change one’s situation which is a large component of many depressions. This seems to fall in line with studies like this, where the term self-concept is used.
http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pms.1992.74.1.79
Can you give support for your statements?
By arbitrary exercise I mean exercise that is no where close to in line with the largest systematic reviews on what exercise is effective in creating physiological changes http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/09/05/ije.dyr112 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16287373
It is rare to see any sort of reasoning about exercise selection in an exercise study. When such reasoning is included it usually just cites other exercise studies, which then do not have such reasoning. Example, this study http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=485159#ref-ioi81361-43
references the methodology of this study http://www.researchgate.net/publication/19819328_Comparison_of_high-_and_low-intensity_exercise_training_early_after_acute_myocardial_infarction/file/d912f50630d8f7c66f.pdf
which provides a very detailed description of what the exercise protocol is, but no explanation of why. If exercise protocol was standard within the exercise research community then you would expect to either see a protocol listed by name or a lot of studies with similar methodologies. Instead we see exercise studies with all sorts of varying exercise protocols, making direct comparison harder, and meta analysis weaker.
With regard to months instead of weeks, this is based on my experience and anecdotal reports of others. A successful instillation of an exercise habit seems to counter feelings of powerlessness to change one’s situation which is a large component of many depressions. This seems to fall in line with studies like this, where the term self-concept is used. http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pms.1992.74.1.79