Workplace HIIT: Feasibility and Preventive Effects of HIIT in the Real-World

High-intensity Interval Training for Workplace Health Promotion: Evaluation of Feasibility and Preventive Effects in a Real-World Setting

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of an extremely time-efficient high-intensity interval training program, performed over a period of six months in a real-world (workplace) setting, on cardiorespiratory fitness, cardiometabolic risk profile, and self-reported outcomes including perceived stress and subjective work ability in previously sedentary employees.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Sedentary Lifestyle over at least 1 year prior to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy, Lactation
• Psychological disorders, epilepsy, sever neurological disorders
• Participation in other exercise- or nutrition studies within the last 6 months
• coronary heart disease, heart failure
• malignant disease
• severe rheumatic or neurological disease
• severe/unstable hypertension (resting RR: >180/>110 mmHg)
• severely restricted lung function (FEV1 <60%)
• unstable Diabetes mellitus
• severe orthopedic disease/restriction
• acute / chronic infectious diseases
• Electronic implants (defibrillator, pacemaker)
• Persons in mental hospitals by order of authorities or jurisdiction