Does Sport Specific Brain Endurance Training Enhance Physical and Cognitive Performance in Elite Orienteering Athletes?

Department of Public Health, Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Brain Endurance Training; Other: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06405022

BET in orienteering

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to measure the effects of a 6 week sport specific BET intervention on physical and cognitive performance parameters in elite orienteering athletes.

Full description

The purpose of the study is to measure the effects of a 6 week sport specific BET intervention on physical and cognitive performance parameters in elite orienteering athletes.

The study is constructed as a cross-over design, where participants function as their own control condition. The control condition (the first period) and the intervention (the latter period) consists of a 6 week training period, both leading up to a prioritized international competition. In the control condition participants will train normally leading up to the European Championships. During the intervention period participants will implement 3 sessions per week of a specially designed brain endurance program, leading up to the World Championships. To investigate the effect on all endpoints, physical and cognitive tests are conducted before and after the training periods.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Danish National Team Elite Orienteering Runners

Exclusion criteria

• Consent withdrawal
• Injury

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 2 patient groups

Control (CON)

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control condition entails a six-week period. The participant will complete three regular high intensity training per week followed by 20 min of rest

Treatment:

Other: Control

Brain Endurance Training (BET)

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention period also entails a 6 week period but with three weekly blocks with a 20 min brain endurance training program following a regular high intensity training session.

Treatment:

Other: Brain Endurance Training