NCT05542758

High-Intensity Interval Training for Older Adults

High-Intensity Interval Training: Impacts on Function, Neuromuscular Control, and Muscle Architecture

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Creighton University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will examine differences in a 12 week high-intensity interval training regimen. The Total Body HIIT program incorporates a resistance (circuit) and an anaerobic (bike) component in older adults. The specific objectives focus on examining cardiovascular endurance, neuromuscular function, and muscle architecture.

Conditions

• Age-Related Sarcopenia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Total Body HIIT Program	One repetition maximums (1RM) and body weight (BW) will be recorded at prior to and at 6 weeks to tailor the program. The circuit will be completed twice during each session and the exercises will include: squats, medicine ball forward chest throws, medicine ball overhead throw, farmers walk, seated shoulder press, seated row sitting on a fitness ball, aerobic riser step-ups, foot ladder drills, and twisting medicine ball passes. The anaerobic component will be completed once during a session and on a stationary bike. The progression of exercise:rest seconds will be 20:40 for Weeks 1-4, 30:30 for Weeks 5-8, and 40:20 for Weeks 9-12. Each session will start with a 5 minute warm up and end with a 5-minute cool down. Participants will be given real time feedback about heart rate (goal range: 85-95% HRmax) and exercise movement velocity. Participants will be encouraged to surpass the velocity of the previous repetition.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-01
• Primary completion: 2024-12-01
• Completion: 2024-12-01
• First posted: 2022-09-15
• Last updated: 2024-07-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States