The Order Effect of Acute Concurrent Exercise on Executive Function: An Event-Related Potential Study

National Taiwan Normal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Executive Function

Treatments: Behavioral: resistance-aerobic exercise, RA; Behavioral: aerobic-resistance exercise, AR

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05314699

PACNL_rueihongli_CE_Order

Details and patient eligibility

About

Executive function is a high-level cognition which plays an important role in our life. Meta-analysis study has demonstrated that acute exercise could improve executive function. However, it is still unclear whether executive function can be enhanced by the concurrent exercise that combines aerobic and resistance exercise. Moreover, the sequence of concurrent exercise may result in different blood lactate concentration which may affect executive function. Therefore, the purposes of present study are: (1) Measuring the order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function. (2) Measuring whether order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function is mediated by blood lactate.

Full description

Executive function is a high-level cognition which plays an important role in academic performance, career, and interpersonal relationship. Meta-analysis study has demonstrated that acute exercise could improve executive function, and also observed similar positive effect through both aerobic and resistance exercise. However, it is still unclear whether executive function can be enhanced by the concurrent exercise that combines aerobic and resistance exercise. Moreover, the sequence of concurrent exercise may result in different blood lactate concentration which may affect executive function. Therefore, the purposes of present study are: (1) Measuring the order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function. (2) Measuring whether order effect of acute concurrent exercise on executive function is mediated by blood lactate.

Enrollment: 99 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 28 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. no history of psychiatric or neurological disorders
2. no history of cardiovascular disease
3. normal or corrected to normal vision and normal color perception
4. right handed
5. 18.5 < BMI < 27

Exclusion criteria

1. Diagnosed with epilepsy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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99 participants in 3 patient groups

resistance-aerobic exercise group, RA

Experimental group

Description:

Participants conduct 5-min warm up, 13-min resistance exercise, 12-min aerobic exercise, and 5-min cool down.

Treatment:

Behavioral: resistance-aerobic exercise, RA

aerobic-resistance exercise group, AR

Experimental group

Description:

Participants conduct 5-min warm up, 12-min aerobic exercise, 13-min resistance exercise, and 5-min cool down.

Treatment:

Behavioral: aerobic-resistance exercise, AR

reading control group, RC

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants conduct reading for 35 minutes.