NCT05292261

Effects of a Recreational Team Handball-based Programme on Health and Physical Fitness of Postmenopausal Women

Effects of a Short- and Long-term Team Handball-based Exercise Programme on Physical Fitness and Health Status of Inactive Postmenopausal Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Institute of Maia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aimed at determining the short- (16 weeks) and long-term (36 weeks) health and physical fitness effects and adherence of recreational team handball training for postmenopausal women without previous experience with the sport. The investigators hypothesized that short-term recreational team handball training would result in positive health and physical fitness adaptations and that the health and physical fitness improvements achieved after the first 16 weeks would be maintained or further improved at the long-term. Moreover, the investigators also hypothesized that the adherence to this exercise mode would be maintained throughout the 36 weeks (long-term) compared to the first 16 weeks (short-term).

Conditions

• Menopause

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Recreational team handball	Two to three weekly sessions of recreational team handball training for 36 weeks. Each 60-min session started with a standardised warm-up (including running, coordination, strength, flexibility, and balance exercises) followed by three 15-min periods of recreational team handball matches, interspersed by 2-min breaks, played as small-sided games (4v4, 5v5 or 6v6). The training sessions were performed on an indoor team handball court (40x20 m) adjusted to result in 34-36 m2 per player. During the matches, the participants rotated positions every 3 min in a random order, including the goalkeeper and no exclusions or substitutions were applied.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-02
• Primary completion: 2018-03-01
• Completion: 2018-03-01
• First posted: 2022-03-23
• Last updated: 2022-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal