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Influence of Cooling on the Effect of Strength Training (IceAge)

U

Universität des Saarlandes

Status

Completed

Conditions

Strength Training Effects

Treatments

Other: cold water immersion

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03332446
2512BI1901

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate if regular cold water immersion after strength training has a negative influence on the desired training-induced performance enhancement.

Full description

Recovery strategies represent a not sufficiently investigated chance in elite training control to optimize the complete training process. Coaches and athletes are confronted with numerous potentially effective recovery methods, e.g. cooling, warming, active recovery, compression, massage or power naps. However, the effectivity of these methods has rarely been investigated under controlled scientific conditions. Based on the state of the art,so far hardly any definite practical conclusions regarding effective recovery methods can be drawn, especially regarding sport-specific strategies and settings. Currently, cold water immersion is a particularly popular recovery strategy. However, there are hints that repeated cooling interventions after training can impair the training effect. This could potentially be caused by a faster reconstitution of homeostasis due to cooling. For fast recovery of performance, this effect would be desirable, but at the same time these homeostatic disturbances are the basis of signal processes leading to training adaptations.

The aim of this study is to investigate if regular cold water immersion after strength training has a negative influence on the desired training-induced performance enhancement.

Enrollment

11 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 40 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • healthy, 18-40 years, strength training experience, 8 weeks no leg strength training

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose

Other

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

11 participants in 2 patient groups

cooling
Experimental group
Description:
strength training and cold water immersion
Treatment:
Other: cold water immersion
control
No Intervention group
Description:
strength training and no cold water immersion

Trial contacts and locations

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