NCT05905081

Acute Effects of Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Functions in Young Adult Males

Acute Effects of Physical Fitness and Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Functions in Young Adult Males

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 61 (actual)
• Sponsor: Izmir University of Economics · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

60 healthy male university students will be included in this study. Physical fitness parameters, fluid intelligence, and physical activity level will be measured at baseline. Participants will be randomised to one of two testing schedules, groups will complete either a 30-minutes aerobic exercise session or a resting control condition. Cognitive measures (simple reaction time task, go/nogo task, spatial cueing, n-back task) will be tested before and after the intervention.

Conditions

• Cognitive Change

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	aerobic exercise	30-minutes aerobic exercise intervention on the bicycle ergometer. The exercise protocol includes 5 minutes of warm-up, 20 minutes of loading and 5 minutes of cool-down. The intensity of the exercise will be adjusted to be between 46% and 63% of the VO2max calculated according to the exercise programming guide published by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and the perceived effort level on the Borg scale will be 12-13. Warm-up and cool-down periods will be set to 46% of VO2max and Borg perceived exertion level below 9.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-20
• Primary completion: 2023-09-01
• Completion: 2023-09-01
• First posted: 2023-06-15
• Last updated: 2023-09-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)