NCT06111144

Effects of Polarized and Pyramidal Training Combined With or Without Mindfulness in Amateur Runners

Effects of Polarized and Pyramidal Training Models Combined With or Without Mindfulness on Running Time, Performance Variables, and Body Composition in Amateur Long-distance Runners. A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Antioquia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 25 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Road running in athletics has grown worldwide in recent years, which has led to an increase in the number of recreational runners. Despite this growth, research addressing this population is scarce, with major limitations and methodological weaknesses. Two of the topics of recent interest in runners are the effects of training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness on running time, body composition and physiological parameters related to performance in endurance sports; the maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), maximal aerobic speed (MAS) and ventilatory thresholds (VT). The scarce evidence found identifies the TID polarized model as the most effective in sports performance and TID pyramidal model as the most used by elite runners. For mindfulness, it is identified as an emerging program that could contribute to performance in endurance sports.

Detailed description

40 recreational long-distance runners will be randomly assigned into one of the following 4 TID models groups: polarized TID model group with mindfulness program (POL+), polarized TID model group without mindfulness program (POL-), pyramidal TID model group with mindfulness program (PYR+) and pyramidal TID model group without mindfulness program (PYR-). Each group will be composed of 10 subjects. The interventions will have a duration of 12 weeks. All participants will have evaluation of 10 km running time, body composition and physiological parameters (VO2max, MAS and VT's 1 and 2) at week 0 and 13 of the study.

Conditions

• Healthy Volunteers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Polarized training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness	Polarized TID model group with mindfulness program (POL+)
BEHAVIORAL	Pyramidal training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness	Pyramidal TID model group with mindfulness program (PYR+)
BEHAVIORAL	Polarized training intensity distribution (TID) without mindfulness	Polarized TID model group without mindfulness program (POL-)
BEHAVIORAL	Pyramidal training intensity distribution (TID) without mindfulness	Pyramidal TID model group without mindfulness program (PYR-).

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-16
• Primary completion: 2023-11-24
• Completion: 2023-12-15
• First posted: 2023-11-01
• Last updated: 2024-10-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Colombia