Yoga Improves Aerobic Fitness, Glycemia and Mood State and Reduces Abdominal Obesity (PRISE)

Skidmore College

Status

Completed

Conditions

Insulin Resistance

Obesity

Treatments

Other: Protein Stretching/Yoga Training

Other: Protein Resistance Exercise Training

Other: Protein whole foods

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02190136

Yoga-0610-52

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stretching and flexibility exercise such as yoga and functional resistance exercise are two forms of exercise that are growing in popularity. However, they have not been scientifically tested to demonstrate their ability to improve body composition, fitness, heart and metabolic health, and mood state in overweight/obese women. The investigators hypothesize that during an 11 week intervention, both forms of exercise will improve body composition, heart and metabolic health and mood state.

Full description

This study was a 11 week protein-rich whole food diet and exercise training intervention in middle aged overweight/obese women. Subjects were randomized into 3 groups: Protein-rich whole food only consumed as 20-25 grams per serving 4-6 per day (P); protein and resistance exercise training (R); and protein and stretching/yoga exercise training (S). All outcomes, including the primary outcomes of body composition and cardiometabolic biomarkers were measured at baseline (week 0) and post-intervention (week 12) in all study subjects.

Enrollment

39 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

25 to 60 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

obese or overweight women
between ages 25-60 and
otherwise healthy

Exclusion criteria

smokers,
habitual exercisers

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

39 participants in 3 patient groups

Protein whole foods

Active Comparator group

Description:

Ingestion of 20-25 grams per serving consumed 4-6 times per day; 1 within an hour of waking in the morning and the other 2.5-3 hours apart during the day.

Treatment:

Other: Protein whole foods

Other: Protein Resistance Exercise Training

Other: Protein Stretching/Yoga Training

Protein Resistance Exercise Training

Experimental group

Description:

Ingestion of 4-6 protein-rich meals per day and 3 times per week of resistance functional training.

Treatment:

Other: Protein whole foods

Other: Protein Resistance Exercise Training

Protein Stretching/Yoga Training