Carrying Heavy Shopping Bags and Muscle Function

University of Glasgow

Status

Completed

Conditions

Strength

Resistance Exercise

Strength Training Effects

Treatments

Behavioral: Experimental: Shopping bag carrying

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07271108

200220195

Details and patient eligibility

About

What Is This Study About? To find out whether carrying heavy shopping bags twice a week can help adults not currently meeting physical activity strength guidelines improve muscle mass, strength, power, and endurance.

What Can Be learnt?

Can carrying shopping bags help improve muscle mass, strength, power, and endurance?
Should carrying shopping bags be included within physical activity recommendations?

Two groups will be compared:

One group will carry shopping bags twice a week within a controlled lab environment
The other group won't change anything in their routine.

What Will Participants Do?

Self-select a weight for shopping bags that is heavy but can be carried for 15 minutes to use for all sessions
Walk with shopping bags for 15 minutes at a normal walking speed for carrying shopping home from the supermarket.
After each minute, the time stops and participants place bags on the floor. The time restarts for the next minute when the participant chooses to pick up the bags again.

Enrollment

45 patients

Sex

All

Ages

16 to 75 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Performing less than 2 days per week of muscle strengthening exercise
Pass the physical activity readiness questionnaire
Available during data collection period

Exclusion criteria

Current or prior history of heart, lung, kidney, endocrine or liver disease or cancer.
Performing more than 2 days per week of muscle strengthening exercise
Answered yes to any of the questions in the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire
Available during data collection period