NCT06116474

Effect Of 8-Week Online Fitness Intervention Health Related Fitness

Effect Of 8-Week Online Fitness Intervention on Muscle Strength, Flexibility, Body Composition and Physical-Self Perception

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 43 (actual)
• Sponsor: Eskisehir Technical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of 8-week online delivered exercise program on actual and perceived physical fitness components.

Detailed description

Physical fitness is one of the leading concepts of health and well-being at all stages of life. In certain context, individuals tend to engage in prolonged sedentary behaviors, and these contexts are considered sedentary-promoting environments. These environments also detrimental on physical fitness and health. University students and office workers who predominantly engage in sedentary behaviors, such as prolonged sitting and computer-based work, have consistently shown associations with various aspects of diminished physical fitness. The online intervention protocols might be a good alternative for increasing fitness level for those who live or work in highly sedentary settings. Hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of 8-week online delivered exercise program on actual and perceived physical fitness components. Specifically, body composition measured by DXA, upper body muscular strength, and flexibility are the main focus of this study. Moreover, physical self-perception is also a focus of this study.

Conditions

• Sedentary Behavior
• Physical Inactivity
• Body Image

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Web-Based Physical Fitness Intervention	The exercise program has been designed according to the progressive overload method. Therefore, the volume of the exercise program increased as the weeks progressed. Exercise videos were uploaded to YouTube on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays send to participants via a message group to follow the program. The videos featured the experts' explanations of the movements for each exercise.. The equipment that the participants should use in the training sessions was selected from the materials available at home (eg., use of water bottles instead of weight dumbbells). The exercise sessions is divided into 3 parts: warm-up (2-4 min. average), main part (14-19 min. average), cool-down (3-5 min. average). The warm-up includes movements to increase the heart rate and warm up the muscles to be worked on for that session. The main part of the exercise program also included rest breaks when the participants were asked to move and stretch.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-15
• Primary completion: 2022-10-15
• Completion: 2022-10-30
• First posted: 2023-11-03
• Last updated: 2023-11-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)