About the Authors

Dirk Vissers

dirk.vissers@ua.ac.be

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Wendy Hens

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Jan Taeymans

Affiliation Health Department, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Berne, Switzerland

Jean-Pierre Baeyens

Affiliation Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Jacques Poortmans

Affiliation Higher Institute of Physical Education and Physical Therapy, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Luc Van Gaal

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Read and approved final version of manuscript: DV WH JT JPB JP LVG. Conceived and designed the experiments: DV WH JT JPB JP LVG. Analyzed the data: DV WH JT. Wrote the paper: DV WH JT LVG.