Onsite vs. Virtual Group Fitness in Overweight/Obese Women

University of Miami

Status

Completed

Conditions

Overweight and Obesity

Treatments

Other: HIIT Exercise Training

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04974476

20210038

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare an onsite to virtual whole-body high intensity interval training (HIIT) program on anthropometric variables, aerobic fitness measures, and vascular markers of cardiac risk in a single study of overweight and obese women.

Enrollment

35 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 44 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Premenopausal adult females over the age of 18 and under the age of 45 with a BMI greater than or equal to 25 and a waist circumference greater than or equal to 35 inches.
No medical contraindications to participation in an exercise program including major medical illnesses (i.e. cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, etc.)
Ability to provide informed consent
Willingness and ability to participate in an interval training in-person group fitness exercise program 3x/week for 12 weeks

Exclusion criteria

Adults unable to consent or mini-mental score less than 18.
Individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers)
Pregnant women
Post-menopausal women
Do not speak English
Prisoners
Subjects on medicines (serum glucose, insulin, weight loss medicines, beta-blockers) and having any medical pre-conditions that would interfere with one's capacity to exercise.
Answer "Yes" to any of the questions on the Pre-Activity Screening Questionnaire (PASQ)