Effects of Polarized and Pyramidal Training Combined With or Without Mindfulness in Amateur Runners

Universidad de Antioquia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers

Treatments: Behavioral: Polarized training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness; Behavioral: Polarized training intensity distribution (TID) without mindfulness; Behavioral: Pyramidal training intensity distribution (TID) without mindfulness; Behavioral: Pyramidal training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06111144

TID-Runners-UdeA-JCRunning

Details and patient eligibility

About

Road running in athletics has grown worldwide in recent years, which has led to an increase in the number of recreational runners. Despite this growth, research addressing this population is scarce, with major limitations and methodological weaknesses. Two of the topics of recent interest in runners are the effects of training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness on running time, body composition and physiological parameters related to performance in endurance sports; the maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), maximal aerobic speed (MAS) and ventilatory thresholds (VT).

The scarce evidence found identifies the TID polarized model as the most effective in sports performance and TID pyramidal model as the most used by elite runners. For mindfulness, it is identified as an emerging program that could contribute to performance in endurance sports.

Full description

40 recreational long-distance runners will be randomly assigned into one of the following 4 TID models groups: polarized TID model group with mindfulness program (POL+), polarized TID model group without mindfulness program (POL-), pyramidal TID model group with mindfulness program (PYR+) and pyramidal TID model group without mindfulness program (PYR-). Each group will be composed of 10 subjects. The interventions will have a duration of 12 weeks.

All participants will have evaluation of 10 km running time, body composition and physiological parameters (VO2max, MAS and VT's 1 and 2) at week 0 and 13 of the study.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Amateur long-distance runners
• Running time of 10 km in Bogotá, Colombia or similar altitude (2600 m above sea level) for men between 45 and 60 minutes, and for women between 50 and 65 minutes.

Exclusion criteria

• Smokers.
• History of cardiovascular disease.
• Arrhythmias.
• Cardiac insufficiencies.
• Hypertension.
• Musculoskeletal problems that affect their participation in the training program.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 4 patient groups

Polarized training Intensity distribution model without mindfulness program

Experimental group

Description:

The TID of the entire training program will be zone 1 (80%), zone 2 (5%), zone 3 (15%). The periodization of the training will be performed in a 3:1 load-recovery cycle, that is, three weeks of load for one week of recovery, this cycle will be repeated 3 times to complete the 12 weeks. The running sessions will have a volume in the load weeks as follows: The first week a volume of 5 hours, the second week 5.5 hours and the third week 6 hours. In the recovery week the volume will be 4 hours. As for the running technique and strength, these will have a weekly volume of 30 min and 1 hour respectively during all 12 weeks. In summary: 60 running sessions 24 strength sessions 24 running technique sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Polarized training intensity distribution (TID) without mindfulness

Pyramidal training Intensity distribution model without mindfulness program

Experimental group

Description:

The TID of the entire training program will be zone 1 (80%), zone 2 (5%), zone 3 (15%). The periodization of the training will be performed in a 3:1 load-recovery cycle, that is, three weeks of load for one week of recovery, this cycle will be repeated 3 times to complete the 12 weeks. The running sessions will have a volume in the load weeks as follows: The first week a volume of 5 hours, the second week 5.5 hours and the third week 6 hours. In the recovery week the volume will be 4 hours. As for the running technique and strength, these will have a weekly volume of 30 min and 1 hour respectively during all 12 weeks. In summary: 60 running sessions 24 strength sessions 24 running technique sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pyramidal training intensity distribution (TID) without mindfulness

Polarized training Intensity distribution model with mindfulness program

Experimental group

Description:

The TID of the entire training program will be zone 1 (80%), zone 2 (5%), zone 3 (15%). The periodization of the training will be performed in a 3:1 load-recovery cycle, that is, three weeks of load for one week of recovery, this cycle will be repeated 3 times to complete the 12 weeks. The running sessions will have a volume in the load weeks as follows: The first week a volume of 5 hours, the second week 5.5 hours and the third week 6 hours. In the recovery week the volume will be 4 hours. As for the running technique, strength and mindfulness these will have a weekly volume of 30 min, 1 hour and 65 min respectively during all 12 weeks. The weekly mindfulness practice will be done in 4 different types of sessions: (life-meditation, jogging-meditation, stretching-meditation, running-meditation). In summary: 60 running sessions 60 mindfulness sessions 24 strength sessions 24 running technique sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Polarized training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness

Pyramidal training Intensity distribution model with mindfulness program

Experimental group

Description:

The TID of the entire training program will be zone 1 (80%), zone 2 (15%), zone 3 (5%). The periodization of the training will be performed in a 3:1 load-recovery cycle, that is, three weeks of load for one week of recovery, this cycle will be repeated 3 times to complete the 12 weeks. The running sessions will have a volume in the load weeks as follows: The first week a volume of 5 hours, the second week 5.5 hours and the third week 6 hours. In the recovery week the volume will be 4 hours. As for the running technique, strength and mindfulness these will have a weekly volume of 30 min, 1 hour and 65 min respectively during all 12 weeks. The weekly mindfulness practice will be done in 4 different types of sessions: (life-meditation, jogging-meditation, stretching-meditation, running-meditation). In summary: 60 running sessions 60 mindfulness sessions 24 strength sessions 24 running technique sessions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pyramidal training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness