Does combined endurance-resistance training improve submaximal exercise capacity, muscle strength, and quality of life compared to endurance training in patients with chronic heart failure?
Combined endurance-resistance training is safe and more effective than endurance training alone for improving exercise capacity, strength, and quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure.
In CHF patients, CT had a more pronounced effect on submaximal exercise capacity, muscle strength, and quality of life. The absence of unfavourable effects on left ventricular remodelling and outcome parameters is reassuring and might facilitate further implementation of this particular training modality.
Beckers et al. (Sun,) studied this question.