COPD Online Rehabilitation (CORe)

"The control group receives standardized conventional supervised COPD rehabilitation (CCR) in groups. Rehabilitation contains exercise training and education sessions twice a week for a duration of 8-12 weeks. The CCR will last 60-120 minutes each session (50% exercise and 50% education).~Physical Exercises in CCR consist endurance based at Borg dyspnea 4-7 for 20-30 minutes and resistance training for upper and lower limb at 50-80% of one repetition maximum of 2-3 sets. Educations sessions consist information a dialogue regarding, life with COPD, participants topics, Medication, daily activity, Nutrition, Smoking cessation, Respiratory and relaxation exercises."

"Supervised Online COPD rehabilitation, delivered in groups through a computer screen in patients own home. Rehabilitation contains exercise training and education sessions three times per week for a duration of 10 weeks. Each session lasts for 60minutes (60% exercise 40% education). Physical exercises consist high repetitive time-based muscle endurance training, including 5-7 upper and lower limb exercises, performed with a volume of four sets per exercise equivalent to 50-80% of one repetition. Self-rated Borg CR-10 score equivalent from moderate to very strong shortness of breath in active phases.~Educations consists same information as for the control group."