NCT01027156

The Influence of a High Intensity Physical Activity Intervention on a Selection of Health Related Outcomes: An Ecological Approach

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: —
• Sponsor: University of the West of Scotland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a High Intensity exercise intervention can elicit cardiovascular disease protection in adolescents.

Conditions

• To Assess the Impact of the HIT Intervention on Physiological Responses
• To Assess the Role of a Secondary High School as a Setting for Promoting Healthy Eating and PA Behaviours
• To Determine the Associations Between CVD Risk Factors at Baseline in 15 - 18 Year Old Youth

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	High Intensity Exercise	In this study, participants will be instructed to sprint maximally for a period of 30 seconds. Following 30s rest, the participants will be instructed to repeat this procedure a further 3 times. This equates to 2 minutes of maximal effort sprinting interspersed with 2 minutes recovery. Participants will be requested to perform this protocol 3 times weekly. Training progression will be implemented by increasing the number of repeats from four repetitions during weeks 1 and 2, to five repetitions during weeks 3 and 4, to six repetitions during weeks 5 and 6. Finally, during week 7 participants will still perform six repetitions but interspersed by only 20 s recovery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-10-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2009-12-07
• Last updated: 2009-12-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom