NCT05942144

Exercise-snacks at Work: Impact on Cardiometabolic Parameters

Exercise-snacks: an Effective Strategy to Break Sitting Time and Improve Cardiometbaolic Health in Sedentary Overweight Office Workers

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Avignon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The main objective is to measure the effects of intense brief exercise program in the workplace of administrative staff on the cardio-metabolic health

Detailed description

Backgrounds: Very short (\< 1 minute) and intense exercises, entitled "exercise-snacks", have been reported to be effective 1) in improving physical fitness over 6 weeks and 2) in improving vascular function and lowering blood glucose levels over one day. These studies were all carried out in the laboratory. The question therefore arises as to whether these acute vascular and metabolic benefits, as well as those on physical fitness, are sustainable over time following a chronic "exercise-snacks" program applicable in the professional environment to sedentary, overweight people. Aims of this project is therefore to measure the effects of an "exercise-snacks" type physical activity program in the workplace of administrative staff on the cardio-metabolic health and sedentary behaviour of staff.

Conditions

• Sedentary Time
• Overweight and Obesity
• Work-Related Condition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise-snacks program	Subjects in the exercise-snacks group will perform 4 "exercise-snacks" sessions per working day for 4 weeks. These sessions will consist of 80 one-to-one walks to be completed as quickly as possible. They will also receive information about their attitudes to physical activity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-05-16
• Primary completion: 2024-06-30
• Completion: 2024-07-20
• First posted: 2023-07-12
• Last updated: 2025-04-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France