Superset Strength Training for Time-efficiency

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sedentary Lifestyle

Treatments: Behavioral: Traditional strength training; Behavioral: Superset strength training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04038177

2019-07-VMI

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physical inactivity is a global challenge and there is an urgent need to find strategies to increases people's activity levels. Strength training is one of the activities that is recommended to engage in regularly by both the American College of Sports Medicine and the World Health Organization. Understanding how strength training can be done effectively without spending much time could potentially increase people's involvement in strength training, as lack of time often is reported as barrier to training. Superset strength training can potentially be a time-efficient way of strength training, as this training method has been found to take half the time of the traditional ways of training.

The aim of the present study is therefore to compare the effects of superset strength training and traditional strength training on muscular strength, body composition and fatigue.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• living in Trøndelag
• did not perform weekly strength training during the past 6 months.

Exclusion criteria

• any known severe somatic condition (e.g., autoimmune and systemic inflammatory diseases, cancer, severe osteoporosis)
• any known severe psychiatric condition
• other contraindications for heavy resistance training (e.g. shoulder pain).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Superset strength training

Experimental group

Description:

This is the experimental group that performs strength training with sets and rest intervals programmed in a superset manner

Treatment:

Behavioral: Superset strength training

Traditional strength training

Active Comparator group

Description:

This is the comparator group that engages in strength training with sets and rest intervals programmed in accordance with the recommendations from The American College of Sports Medicine

Treatment:

Behavioral: Traditional strength training