NCT04078971

Effects of Ketogenic Diet on Body Composition and Performance in Soccer Players

Effects of a Very Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet on Body Composition, Muscle Strength, Muscle Area, Metabolism and Performance in Semi-professional Soccer Players

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: Antonio Paoli · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A ketogenic diet (KD) is a nutritional approach, usually adopted for weight loss, that restricts daily carbohydrates under 30 g/day. KD showed contradictory results on sport performance, whilst no data are available on team sports. The investigators will investigate the influence of a KD on different parameters in soccer players

Detailed description

Sixteen semi-professional soccer players will be randomly assigned to a ketogenic diet (KD n=8) or to a western diet (WD n=8). Diets contain the same amount of protein (1.8g/Kg body weight/day). Body weight and body composition will be measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Resting energy expenditure (REE), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), cross sectional area (CSA) and isometric muscle strength of quadriceps, counter movement jump (CMJ) and yoyo intermittent recovery test will be measured.

Conditions

• Athletic Performance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Western diet	Subjects in this intervention will follow a normal western diet
OTHER	ketogenic diet	Subjects in this group will follow a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-02
• Primary completion: 2018-10-30
• Completion: 2018-12-15
• First posted: 2019-09-06
• Last updated: 2019-09-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy