Comparison of Different Exercise Training on Exercise Capacity and Fatigue in Patients With Sarcoidosis

The exercise program consisted of a 5-minute warm-up, followed by 10 minutes of cycling for each leg during the first 2 weeks, increasing to 15 minutes for each leg in the subsequent weeks (with a 5-10 minute rest period between switching legs), and concluded with a 5-minute cool-down period. During the exercise, the inactive leg was kept stationary and in contact with the ground . In the one-legged cycling exercise training, whether patients started with the dominant or non-dominant leg was determined randomly

The exercise program consisted of a 5-minute warm-up, followed by 20 minutes of cycling during the first 2 weeks, increasing to 30 minutes in the subsequent weeks, and concluded with a 5-minute cool-down period.