Comparative Effects of Post-exercise Ingestion of a High or Low Molecular Weight Solution on Resistance Exercise Performance

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Task Performance and Analysis
• Interventions: Dietary Supplement: Vitargo ®, Swecarb AB, Karlskrona, Sweden; Dietary Supplement: DE15 maltodextrin, Matrin® M160, Grain Processing Corporation, Muscatine, IA

• Registration Number: NCT02778373
• Lead Sponsor: Texas Christian University

Brief Summary

This study sought to examine differences in resistance exercise performance, as measured by the kinetic and kinematic profile during multiple sets of the back squat exercise, following ingestion of high or low molecular weight carbohydrate beverages.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-09
• Primary Completion: 2015-06
• Study Completion: 2015-06
• Status Verified: 2016-05
• Study First Submitted: 2016-05-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-05-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-05-17
• Study First Posted: 2016-05-19
• Last Update Posted: 2016-05-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• having at least 2 years resistance training experience to include the parallel back squat exercise at least once a week
• no musculoskeletal injury within previous 1 year
• not having consumed any nutritional or ergogenic supplement excluding protein and/or a daily vitamin for the previous 6-week period

Exclusion Criteria

• no previous resistance training experience
• musculoskeletal injury within the previous 1 year
• having consumed or presenting consuming a nutritional or ergogenic supplement

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
High molecular weight carbohydrate	Vitargo ®, Swecarb AB, Karlskrona, Sweden	high molecular weight carbohydrate delivered post-endurance exercise in a 10% solution providing 1.2 grams/kg body weight carbohydrate
Low Molecular Weight Carbohydrate	DE15 maltodextrin, Matrin® M160, Grain Processing Corporation, Muscatine, IA	low molecular weight carbohydrate delivered post-endurance exercise in a 10% solution providing 1.2 grams/kg body weight carbohydrate

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in Power Output	1 year	Change in power output, measured in watts, will be examined over the course of the performance of 5 sets of 10 repetitions of the back squat exercise with a weight corresponding to 75% one-repetition maximum.