The Impact of Moderate Resistance Training on IMAT in Elderly Diabetes Patients Without Obesity

The intervention group attended online group education sessions on diabetes self management, as well as resistance exercise training sessions three times weekly; the sessions were approximately 40 minutes long and included 5 minutes of warm up, followed by 30 minutes of resistance exercises and 5 minutes of cool down. The resistance training consisted of ten upper-body and lower-body exercises using elastic band. The initial sessions were 1 to 2 sets of 6 to 8 repetitions at 45% of the one-repetition maximum (1 RM). It was increased progressively to 2 to 3 sets of 8 to 12 approximately 50% -55% of 1 RM.