Cluster Set Resistance Training as a Modality of Power Training in Older Adults
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Healthy Aging
- Sponsor
- University of Miami
- Enrollment
- 25
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in neuromuscular performance as measured by power production.
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
This project will focus on improving power in older adults, since power is related to performance of daily activities and memory and decision making. The study will compare cluster set resistance training, where you can rest during a set, to traditional set resistance training where all repetitions in a set must be completed without any between-repetition rest. If cluster set resistance training is better than traditional set resistance training, it could be more beneficial than existing methods in improving independence in older persons.
Investigators
Joseph Signorile
Professor
University of Miami
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Montreal Cognitive Assessment Score \> 23
- •No memory complaints
Exclusion Criteria
- •Uncontrolled cardiovascular or neuromuscular disease that prevents participation in a training program
- •Any systemic inflammatory or autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, system lupus erythematosus, or other serious concomitant medical illness
- •Unresolved injury or surgery to the upper or lower limbs.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in neuromuscular performance as measured by power production.
Time Frame: Baseline, 12 weeks
This test measures the power a person can produce at maximal speed using a load of 50% of 1RM for the chest press and leg press. There are no minimum or maximum scores. The higher score is better. Power shows how fast a person can do work. The test typically takes about five minutes. Unit of measure is Watts.
Change in neuromuscular performance as measured by 1-repetition maximum (1RM)
Time Frame: Baseline, 12 weeks
Maximal load that can be lifted in one repetition (1RM) will be assessed for in both leg press and chest press exercises. The loads on the testing equipment will be increased over 5 to 7 testing sets. The persons 1RM will be the highest load the person can move through the range of motion of the exercise. There are no minimum or maximum scores for this test. The test typically takes 5 to 10 minutes. The higher the 1RM the stronger the person is.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Concept Switching as measured by the Dimensional Card Sort test.(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in the Flanker test(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Event Memory as measured by the Picture Sequence Memory Test(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Information Sorting as measured by the NIH List Sorting Test(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Reaction Time for a Mental Task as measured by the NIH Pattern Comparison Processing Speed Test(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Mental Task as measured by Trail Making Test(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in the Speed of the Ten-Meter Walk Test(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Time for the Five Times Sit-to-Stand Test(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Distance of the Seated Medicine Ball Throw(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in the time required to complete the timed Up-and-Go Test.(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Muscle Thickness using Ultrasound(Baseline, 12 weeks)
- Change in Muscle Quality using Ultrasound(Baseline, 12 weeks)