Table 1.

Level of supervision received by the RET group

Week	Supervision
1	3 supervised exercise sessions
2	2 supervised sessions and 1 in the home environment (i.e. unsupervised)
3–4	1 supervised session and 2 completed at home
5–12	All exercise sessions were unsupervised, but participants in the intervention group received weekly telephone contact from a member of the research team [23]
13–24	All sessions were unsupervised with no contact from the research team

N.B. Those who did not take up the invite of supervised sessions were contacted weekly via telephone from week 1