NCT01906320

Effects of a High Intensity Resistance Training in Muscular Strength, Agility, and Body Composition of Anorexia Nervosa Restricting Type Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Europea de Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 12 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim is to test the hypothesis that high-resistance training for 8 weeks, following the recommendations for healthy adolescents, is capable of eliciting increases in muscle strength, agility, skeletal muscle mass, and functional capacity without losing weight, body mass index (BMI) or fat mass in anorexia nervosa restricting type patients. Further, we hypothesize that the effects produced by the high-resistance training program will be maintained 4 weeks following the completion of the training program.

Conditions

• Anorexia Nervosa Restricting Type

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	High-Intensity Resistance training	Intervention group performed 3 weekly sessions during 8 weeks in the intra-hospital gymnasium. Each session lasted 50-60 min, and started and ended with warm-up and cool-down periods (10-15 min). The core session included bench press, leg press, lateral row, leg extension, lateral pull-down, abdominal crunch, low back extension, and push-ups exercises. The participants performed three sets of 8-10 repetitions with resting periods of 1-2 min on the weightlifting machines. Load was gradually increased 5-10 % as the participant strength was adapted. The load started at 70% of 6RM. Functional exercises (abdominal crunch, low back extension, and push-ups) were performed at the end of the session to strengthen the core musculature consisting of 3 sets of 15s of isometric contractions at the beginning of the program and 30 s at the end. Dynamic contractions were added, starting with 10 repetitions at the beginning to 30 repetitions at the end of the program.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2013-06-01
• First posted: 2013-07-24
• Last updated: 2020-12-30

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Spain