Accelerometry
APE
SB and PA were measured during waking hours through the whole intervention with a hip-worn triaxial accelerometer (Movesense; Suunto, Vantaa, Finland) with embedded measurement and analysis algorithms (ExSed; UKK Institute, Tampere, Finland). The baseline SB and PA were measured for 4 wk at the screening phase with a hip-worn triaxial accelerometer (UKKAM30; UKK-institute, Tampere, Finland). The collected accelerometer data were analyzed in 6-s epochs using validated mean amplitude deviation (MAD) and angle for posture estimation (APE) methods. The epoch-wise MAD values were converted to metabolic equivalents (METs) (3.5 mL·kgThe body posture was determined with the APE method only for the epochs, which had a MET value lower than 1.5 (The step detection algorithm splits the measured acceleration into vertical and horizontal components. The vertical component is band-pass filtered (1–4 Hz), and positive values are integrated. When the integral value exceeds the specified limit, a step is detected (A period was classified as nonwear time, if the acceleration of each three measurement axes remained within 187.5-m