Decade in Exercise 'Club' Ups Functional Capacity, Hints at Clinical Gains

And they almost certainly would have done better on anabolic substances.

Heart-failure patients who followed a moderate-intensity exercise training program for 10 years benefited with gains in functional capacity and quality of life in a small randomized trial [1].

Even with the unusually long follow-up, the trial had a low dropout rate and patients adhered to the exercise protocol 88% of the time. Researchers attributed that to training that was closely supervised during the first year and subsequently conducted mostly in a "coronary club," a group setting with other cardiac patients.

Good for them.