High Speed Circuit Training and Cognition

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Resistance Training; Educational Control

Treatments: Other: High-speed circuit resistance training; Other: Educational control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04022707

20190518

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to see if a weight training program can make a positive change in participant fitness as measured by the ability to use oxygen and help the participant remember things.

Full description

The purpose of this research study is to see if a weight training program can make a positive change in cardiac fitness, that is a person's ability to use oxygen; and, if the program can help a person's memory, as measured by some standard tests. The researchers will also ask the participant to attend two sessions with researchers at the Bascom-Palmer Eye Institute so they can take pictures of the participants' eyes to see how training changes the number of blood vessels. This can be used by doctors and other clinicians to evaluate improvements blood flow to the brain due to training.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Men and women between 60 and 85 years of age (inclusive)
2. Ability to provide informed consent
3. No medical contraindication to participation in an exercise program including unstable or active untreated major medical illness (i.e., cardiovascular disease, neurological or neuromuscular diseases, stroke, cancer, etc.).

Exclusion criteria

1. Existing muscle-skeletal injury
2. Mini-mental score <18
3. Enrolled in another exercise program
4. Unstable or active major medical illness
5. Answer "Yes" to any questions on the Elder PAR-Q
6. Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

High-Velocity Resistance Circuttraining (HVRCT)

Experimental group

Description:

The participants will perform three circuits of 11 exercises that target the upper and lower body. Training will gradually increase over the first three weeks from 1 to 3 circuits.

Treatment:

Other: Educational control

Other: High-speed circuit resistance training

Educational Control (CON)

Experimental group

Description:

A supervised program will be provided to the participants that includes lectures on health and fitness.

Treatment:

Other: Educational control

Other: High-speed circuit resistance training