Better Breaks: Strength Breaks vs Walk Breaks for Sedentary Behavior Breaks

Stanford University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Sedentary Employees

Treatments: Behavioral: Sitting breaks

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06909097

73022

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigates the benefits of two different types of 2 minute activity breaks during sedentary workdays for people who sit for long periods of time in sedentary jobs.

Full description

For this study, participants are randomly assigned to one of two physical activity breaks and for 8 weeks are to do 4 per day and track their daily breaks and productivity. There are many measurements including: in-person strength assessments at baseline, 1 month, and 2 months; daily tracking of breaks; pre and post oral glucose tolerance tests; pre and post 10-day diet tracking; pre and post 10-day Continuous Glucose Monitoring with a Dexcom; genome with saliva at pre; and -omics at pre and post.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Identify inclusion criteria.

1. Sedentary occupation (e.g., clerical work, data entry, call center, receptionists)
2. Full time employment remote or on-site
3. Able to safely perform bodyweight squats and lunges
4. Over 30 years old
5. Not currently doing a strength training program
6. Not currently taking planned activity breaks at work
7. Has a smart phone with a camera and unlimited text plans
8. Interested in participating
9. Fluent in English
10. Not currently on insulin or any glucose lowering medication

Exclusion criteria

1. Yes to any of the physical activity readiness criteria questionnaire (e.g. cardiac symptoms with increasing heart rate, dizziness upon performing exercise)
2. Participating in another research study on diet, weight loss, or any physical activity.
3. If their doctor has ever said to not strength train
4. Having insulin dependence

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Strength Snacks

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will do 4 strength snacks throughout each work day, 2 of them post-prandial if possible.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sitting breaks

Walk Snacks

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will take 4 x2 minute walk breaks throughout the sedentary workday, two of them post-prandial if possible.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sitting breaks