NCT06063135

Effects of Physical Exercise Timing On Strength and Cardiometabolic Health

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 152 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Basel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Physical exercise is well known to improve human health. Current guidelines provide recommendations on the frequency, intensity, type and duration of exercise. However, they do not provide recommendations for the time of day, exercise should be performed. This is surprising considering that the influence of timing of behaviors such as sleep or nutrition as well as the impact of the circadian timing system on health are well documented. Further, there is evidence for diurnal variation in maximum performance which enables individuals to exercise with different intensities at different times of day, which in the long term might affect physical adaptations to exercise. Thus, this research study investigates if exercise timing impacts human health.

Conditions

• Physical Inactivity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physical Exercise Intervention	Two strength training session per week and one endurance training session per week

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-21
• Primary completion: 2025-06-24
• Completion: 2025-06-24
• First posted: 2023-10-02
• Last updated: 2025-06-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland