NCT06405022

Does Sport Specific Brain Endurance Training Enhance Physical and Cognitive Performance in Elite Orienteering Athletes?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Department of Public Health, Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to measure the effects of a 6 week sport specific BET intervention on physical and cognitive performance parameters in elite orienteering athletes.

Detailed description

The purpose of the study is to measure the effects of a 6 week sport specific BET intervention on physical and cognitive performance parameters in elite orienteering athletes. The study is constructed as a cross-over design, where participants function as their own control condition. The control condition (the first period) and the intervention (the latter period) consists of a 6 week training period, both leading up to a prioritized international competition. In the control condition participants will train normally leading up to the European Championships. During the intervention period participants will implement 3 sessions per week of a specially designed brain endurance program, leading up to the World Championships. To investigate the effect on all endpoints, physical and cognitive tests are conducted before and after the training periods.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Brain Endurance Training	Six week period with three weekly blocks with a 20 min brain endurance training program following a regular HIT session. Before the HIT session questionnaires are completed to measure the motivation for the HIT session and the current state of mood. In between the HIT session and the RCA session, questionnaires are completed to measure the experienced workload of the HIT session, the current state of mood, and the motivation for following the RCA session. Immediately after the RCA session, questionnaires are completed to measure the experienced workload of the RCA session and the current state of mood.
OTHER	Control	No intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-03-01
• Primary completion: 2021-08-01
• Completion: 2021-11-01
• First posted: 2024-05-08
• Last updated: 2024-05-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark