[Recommendations for planning and realisation of exercise training in outpatient lung sports groups]

Asthma and COPD are common diseases inducing high costs. In national and international guidelines exercise training is stated as the main component amongst the nonmedical treatment options. With exercise training beneficial effects in exercise performance, quality of life and health-related costs can be obtained. Options for exercise training all over the country should be established. Therefore not only inpatient, but also outpatient structures, especially lung sports groups have to be organized to enable a continuous training. For this special way of long term training no systematic guidelines do exist. Further aggravating factors are the different basic vocational education of the trainers and the heterogeneity of the participants. The intention of the authors was to develop recommendations for a structured training and training sensitive to the target group. The realisation of training with this approach should approximate training to evidence based knowledge and contribute to the quality of training patients with lung diseases.