Traditionally in CRP, the AT has been considered as the basic exercise modality which is proved to be effective in improving and maintaining exercise capacity and cardiovascular fitness. The American Heart Association guideline recommends aerobic training (AT) and resistance training (RT) as the core elements of exercise-based CRP. Exercise therapy is an integral component of CRP proved to be a valuable and effective non-pharmacological intervention for patients with CAD and is designed to improve exercise capacity, cardiovascular health, and overall health status. The addition of resistant training to aerobic training in cardiac rehabilitation induces more positive cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular effects for stable coronary artery disease patients.Ĭardiac rehabilitation program (CRP) is a comprehensive useful and effective program for prevention and rehabilitation which is recommended by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology for treatment and management of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Resistant training produced improvement in the exercise capacity (VO 2 peak), blood pressure, skeletal muscle strength, endurance, body composition, sleep quality, depression, and health-related quality of life. Analyzing the articles revealed that adding resistant training to aerobic training resulted in a favorable improvement in outcome measures for coronary artery disease patients. The systematic selection process resulted in 10 studies with a total participants number of 3877. The author reviewed the selected articles and applied quantitative non-statistical analysis and appraisal for these articles. Selected articles applied cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular outcome measures to measure the effectiveness of resistant training. Adult or adult and old stable coronary artery disease patients engaged in a site-based (Phase II) exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program that includes aerobic and resistant training. The Physiotherapy evidence database (PEDro) was used as a search engine to select articles through study eligibility criteria. This systematic review aimed to provide the physical therapy clinicians with a consensus regarding the effect of resistant training by answering the question of what is the cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular effect (s) of resistant training in the cardiac rehabilitation program for patients with coronary artery disease? Main body In addition, combined training with added resistant training is also used. Aerobic training is the gold standard exercise therapy in cardiac rehabilitation programs. Exercise therapy is a valuable, effective, and integral intervention of cardiac rehabilitation. Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program is a comprehensive intervention for the rehabilitation of coronary artery disease patients.

Strength and endurance rehab