Muscle Memory After Treatment With Anabolic Substance Clenbuterol and Resistance Training in Humans

Morten Hostrup, PhD

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Skeletal Muscle Physiology

Treatments: Drug: Clenbuterol; Drug: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05692856

CLEN-MEM

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the project is investigate muscle memory and underlying mechanisms in humans following resistance training and use of the anabolic substance clenbuterol.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy men and women
• BMI of <26 and normal ECG and blood pressure

Exclusion criteria

• Smoking
• Chronic disease,
• Use of prescription medication
• Pain due to current or previous musculoskeletal injury
• Resistance training more than once per week in the 12 months leading up to the intervention
• Current or previous use of prohibited anabolic substances

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Clenbuterol

Experimental group

Description:

Participants are randomized to daily ingestion of clenbuterol for a period of 8 weeks, with or without supervised resistance training.

Treatment:

Drug: Clenbuterol

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Participants are randomized to daily ingestion of placebo for a period of 8 weeks, with or without supervised resistance training.

Treatment:

Drug: Placebo