Resistance Training in Children

University of Kansas

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Resistance exercise training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06096610

STUDY0014990

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project is going to examine the effects of resistance exercise training in prepubescent youth on skeletal muscle strength and lipid content.

Enrollment: 35 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy volunteer males and females ages 8 - 10 years.

Exclusion criteria

• No history or ongoing neuromuscular diseases.
• No history or ongoing musculoskeletal injuries.
• No history or ongoing disease that effects metabolism.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 2 patient groups

Resistance exercise training

Experimental group

Description:

Participants undergo 24 sessions of resistance exercise training over about 8 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Resistance exercise training

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants do not perform resistance exercise training.