The Acute and Accumulative Effects of Snack Foods on Exercise Recovery

San Diego State University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Muscle Strength

Treatments: Other: Cereal Bar as a recovery food snack; Other: Almond

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06363409

2023-1353

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the research is two-fold. One goal is to determine if post-exercise almond or cereal bar consumption can promote muscle gain as well as increasing muscular strength throughout an eight-week weight training program. The other goal is to assess the short-term effects of almonds or cereal bar on recovery that may explain the overall long-term adaptations.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMIs of 18.5-30 kg/m2
• participate in no more than 3 hours of structured exercise per week

Exclusion criteria

• weight training more than 30 min/week,
• smoking,
• use of medications known to impact inflammation,
• musculoskeletal limitations,
• use of supplements within 1 month of participation that are known to impact body composition, antioxidant or inflammatory status,
• regular consumption of more than 2 servings of nuts per week,
• unwillingness to refrain from recovery treatments during the study such as hydrotherapy, massage, stretching, compression garments, anti-inflammatory medications and topical applications.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Cereal bar arm

Experimental group

Description:

weight lifting exercise and post-exercise cereal bar consumption

Treatment:

Other: Cereal Bar as a recovery food snack

Almond arm

Experimental group

Description:

weight lifting exercise and post-exercise almond consumption

Treatment:

Other: Almond