Establishing the effect of long-term hesperidin supplementation on exercise-specific performance in moderately trained athletes

Conditions: kracht en prestatie in sporters
overtraining
performance capacity

Registration Number: NL-OMON46296

Lead Sponsor: BioActor BV

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Pending

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 93

Inclusion Criteria

- Healthy individuals (based on their medical history provided during a general health questionnaire)
- Participants are amateur or (semi-) professional athletes in resistance or interval sports (engage in >4 hours of intense physical activity per week).
- Age 18 * 35
- Experience in resistance and interval training

Exclusion Criteria

- Use of creatine supplements and/or anabolic steroids.
- Allergy to test product/placebo
- Allergy to citrus fruits
- BMI lower than 18 or higher than 30
- Recent muscle injury in less than one month before the start of the study.
- Cardiovascular complications
- Use of medication that can influence the study results
- Administration of investigational drugs or participation in any scientific intervention study which may interfere with this study (to be decided by the principle investigator), in the 180 days prior to the study.
- Abuse of products; alcohol (> 20 alcoholic units per week) and drugs.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The primary outcome measure of this study is to determine whether hesperidin<br /><br>supplementation for a period of 8 weeks has an effect on peak force output in<br /><br>the Wingate cycling test compared to placebo.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Secondary endpoints entail the evaluation of the effect of daily administration<br /><br>hesperidin on sprinting times, jumping height and force, average force output,<br /><br>peak force output, blood lactate, anaerobic capacity, rate of force<br /><br>development, perceived exertion and delayed onset muscle soreness in the<br /><br>different exercise tests.</p><br>