The Effect of Acute Concurrent Exercise on Inhibitory Control: An Event-related Potential Study

National Taiwan Normal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cognition; Exercise

Treatments: Behavioral: concurrent exercise (CE); Behavioral: aerobic exercise (AE)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06370286

PACNL_rueihongli_CE_IC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study aimed to determine the effects of acute concurrent exercise on inhibitory control via behavioral and event-related potential approaches and to examine its potential mediational role on lactate among younger adults. The main questions it aims to answer are: (1) Does acute concurrent exercise improve inhibitory control via behavioral and event-related potential approaches? (2) Does lactate play a potential mediational role in the effect of acute concurrent exercise on inhibitory control?

Full description

The present study aimed to determine the effects of acute concurrent exercise (CE) on inhibitory control via behavioral and event-related potential approaches and to examine its potential mediational role on lactate. Participants were randomly assigned to either a CE, aerobic exercise (AE), or control (CON) group. Participants in the CE group engaged in 12-minutes of AE (40%-59% of heart rate reserve [HRR]) coupled with 13-minutes of resistance exercise (1 set, with 75% of 10-repetition maximum, and 12 repetitions of 8 movements). The AE group participated in 25 minutes of AE (40%-59% HRR). Prior to and following exercise onset, participants in both the CE and AE groups completed a 5-minute warm-up and cool-down. Participants in the CON group read books for 35 minutes. Lactate concentrations were measured at timepoint of 0-, 17-, and 30-minutes relative to the treatment onset. Response time (RT) and accuracy in the Stroop test, as well as P3 amplitudes, were assessed before and after the treatment.

Enrollment: 78 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged between 20 and 30 years
• able to exercise without undue risk (i.e., the first seven questions of the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone [PAR-Q+] were answered "No")
• right-handed dominance
• typical or corrected-to-typical eyesight
• limited physical activity in the previous month (i.e., < 150 minutes/week of moderate-intensity physical activity)

Exclusion criteria

• psychiatric or neurological ailments
• cardiorespiratory or neuromuscular conditions
• obese status (body mass index [BMI] > 27 kg/m2)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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78 participants in 3 patient groups

concurrent exercise (CE)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the concurrent exercise group engaged in 12-minutes of aerobic exercise (40%-59% of heart rate reserve \[HRR\]) coupled with 13-minutes of resistance exercise (1 set, with 75% of 10-repetition maximum, and 12 repetitions of 8 movements). Prior to and following exercise onset, participants completed a 5-minute warm-up and cool-down.

Treatment:

Behavioral: concurrent exercise (CE)

aerobic exercise (AE)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the aerobic exercise (AE) group participated in 25 minutes of AE (40%-59% of heart rate reserve \[HRR\]). Prior to and following exercise onset, participants completed a 5-minute warm-up and cool-down.

Treatment:

Behavioral: aerobic exercise (AE)

control (CON)

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group read books for 35 minutes.