NCT03155152

Decremental Exercise: a New Training Approach?

Decremental Exercise Protocol as a Training Stimulus: More or Less Efficient Than Traditional High-intensity Interval Training?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 55 (actual)
• Sponsor: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Different types of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) sessions are used by athletes in order to improve their physical performance, but innovative approaches to training are lacking. Therefore, in Part A of this study the physiological response to a standard HIIT and a new decremental exercise training (DECT) will be compared in runners and cyclists. Next, in Part B the training effects of a 4-week block of the HIIT and DECT will be compared.

Conditions

• Exercise Performance of Fit Athletes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	DECT	The DECT program consists of a 4-week training intervention with three weekly sessions of high-intensity interval training, in which during each exercise bout the workload is imposed in a decremental fashion.
OTHER	HIIT	The HIIT program consists of a 4-week training intervention with three weekly sessions of high-intensity interval training, in which during each exercise bout the workload is kept constant.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-06-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-11
• Completion: 2019-12-11
• First posted: 2017-05-16
• Last updated: 2020-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland