NCT04629365

Effects of Ketogenic Diet in Body Builders

Effects of Two Months of Ketogenic Diet on Body Composition, Muscle Strength and Blood Parameters in Competitive Natural Body Builders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Padova · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 20 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

the study sought to investigate the influence of 8 weeks of a very low carbohydrate ketogenic diet on body composition, muscle strength, muscle area and blood parameters in competitive natural body builders.

Detailed description

nineteen natural body builders were randomly assigned to a ketogenic diet (KD) group or to a normal diet group (ND) with a traditional meal pattern. The two diets were isocaloric and included the same amount of protein per kg of body weight; but differed in the distribution of fats and carbohydrates; the latter were kept below 5% daily (less than 50g/day) in the KD group while represented 55% of the caloric intake in the WD group During the experimental period, training loads were similar in the two groups. Athletes were tested before and after 8 weeks of the intervention. Body composition , basal metabolism, muscle strength and blood parameters were measured.

Conditions

• Diet, Healthy
• Body Weight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Ketogenic Diet	KD group consumed less than 50g/day of carbohydrates
OTHER	Normal Diet	ND group consumed 55% of the caloric intake from carbohydrates

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-08-31
• Completion: 2020-10-31
• First posted: 2020-11-16
• Last updated: 2020-11-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy