Workplace HIIT: Feasibility and Preventive Effects of HIIT in the Real-World (WORK-HIIT)

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Medical School

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Health Promotion; Primary Prevention

Treatments: Other: High-intensity interval training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04065191

WORK-HIIT-Study

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of an extremely time-efficient high-intensity interval training program, performed over a period of six months in a real-world (workplace) setting, on cardiorespiratory fitness, cardiometabolic risk profile, and self-reported outcomes including perceived stress and subjective work ability in previously sedentary employees.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Sedentary Lifestyle over at least 1 year prior to the study

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy, Lactation
• Psychological disorders, epilepsy, sever neurological disorders
• Participation in other exercise- or nutrition studies within the last 6 months
• coronary heart disease, heart failure
• malignant disease
• severe rheumatic or neurological disease
• severe/unstable hypertension (resting RR: >180/>110 mmHg)
• severely restricted lung function (FEV1 <60%)
• unstable Diabetes mellitus
• severe orthopedic disease/restriction
• acute / chronic infectious diseases
• Electronic implants (defibrillator, pacemaker)
• Persons in mental hospitals by order of authorities or jurisdiction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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300 participants in 1 patient group

High-intensity interval training

Experimental group

Description:

High-intensity interval training

Treatment:

Other: High-intensity interval training