Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) in Athletes

Universität des Saarlandes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Running Endurance

Treatments: Behavioral: Respiratory muscle training; Behavioral: Sham training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00968448

Sportmed-Saarland-8/2009

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine weather well trained athletes benefit from inspiratory (respiratory) muscle training.

Full description

Subject: The investigators intend to include 40 well trained runners, 18 years or older. Design: Following lung function and exercise testing (incremental treadmill test to exhaustion, 5000m run time trial) participants will be randomly assigned to a verum or a control group. The verum group will train with a hand-held, commercially available pressure threshold loading device (POWERbreathe,UK). The control group will perform a sham-training with the same device. After six to eight weeks the the initial tests will be repeated. Hypothesis: Inspiratory muscle training enhances performance on submaximal work loads and in the 5000m run time trial by changes in breathing pattern. Maximum oxygen uptake remains unchanged.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• well trained runners

Exclusion criteria

• previous respiratory muscle training
• cardiovascular diseases
• impaired lung function

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

Training

Active Comparator group

Description:

respiratory muscle training (pressure threshold loading)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Respiratory muscle training

sham training

Sham Comparator group

Description:

training with low resistance

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sham training