Cluster Resistance Training and Older Adults

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Aging

Treatments: Other: Traditional Set Resistance Training; Other: Cluster Set Resistance Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06588842

20240776

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project will focus on improving power in older adults, since power is related to performance of daily activities and memory and decision making. The study will compare cluster set resistance training, where you can rest during a set, to traditional set resistance training where all repetitions in a set must be completed without any between-repetition rest. If cluster set resistance training is better than traditional set resistance training, it could be more beneficial than existing methods in improving independence in older persons.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Montreal Cognitive Assessment Score > 23
• No memory complaints

Exclusion criteria

• Uncontrolled cardiovascular or neuromuscular disease that prevents participation in a training program
• Any systemic inflammatory or autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, system lupus erythematosus, or other serious concomitant medical illness
• Unresolved injury or surgery to the upper or lower limbs.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 2 patient groups

Cluster Set Resistance Training

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive high-speed resistance training 2 times a week for 12 consecutive weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Cluster Set Resistance Training

Traditional Set Resistance Training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive traditional set resistance training 2 times a week for 12 consecutive weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional Set Resistance Training