Resistance Exercise Training at Different Intensities

University of Glasgow

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging; Frailty; Sarcopenia

Treatments: Behavioral: Low Load Resistance exercise; Behavioral: High Load Resistance exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04053920

236559

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the current study, therefore, is to determine the feasibility of recruitment and adherence to resistance exercise training interventions performed at low and high loads, to volitional muscular failure, in a trial population that includes both healthy and frail older people.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over age of 65 years

Exclusion criteria

• Current participation in an exercise programme
• Exercise deemed unsafe by clinical team

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Low load

Experimental group

Description:

Training at 30-40% one-repetition maximum (1RM)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Low Load Resistance exercise

High load

Experimental group

Description:

Training at 65-75% one-repetition maximum (1RM)

Treatment:

Behavioral: High Load Resistance exercise