The Acute and Accumulative Effects of Snack Foods on Exercise Recovery

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Muscle Strength
• Interventions: Other: Cereal Bar as a recovery food snack; Other: Almond

• Registration Number: NCT06363409
• Lead Sponsor: San Diego State University

Brief Summary

The purpose of the research is two-fold. One goal is to determine if post-exercise almond or cereal bar consumption can promote muscle gain as well as increasing muscular strength throughout an eight-week weight training program. The other goal is to assess the short-term effects of almonds or cereal bar on recovery that may explain the overall long-term adaptations.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2024-04-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-04-09
• Study First Posted: 2024-04-12
• Study Start: 2024-08-12
• Status Verified: 2024-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-10-15
• Last Update Posted: 2024-10-16
• Primary Completion: 2026-06-01
• Study Completion: 2027-01-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• BMIs of 18.5-30 kg/m2
• participate in no more than 3 hours of structured exercise per week

Exclusion Criteria

• weight training more than 30 min/week,
• smoking,
• use of medications known to impact inflammation,
• musculoskeletal limitations,
• use of supplements within 1 month of participation that are known to impact body composition, antioxidant or inflammatory status,
• regular consumption of more than 2 servings of nuts per week,
• unwillingness to refrain from recovery treatments during the study such as hydrotherapy, massage, stretching, compression garments, anti-inflammatory medications and topical applications.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Cereal bar arm	Cereal Bar as a recovery food snack	weight lifting exercise and post-exercise cereal bar consumption
Almond arm	Almond	weight lifting exercise and post-exercise almond consumption

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
delayed onset of muscle soreness	baseline, 24 hour, 48 hour, and 72 hour after baseline	measuring delayed onset of muscle soreness using visual analogue scale (VAS)
markers of muscle damage	Baseline, 24 hour, 48 hour and 72 hour after baseline	Blood markers of muscle damage (creatine kinase (u/L))
changes in body composition	Baseline and 8 weeks	measuring body composition by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA)
changes in strength	Baseline and 8 weeks	muscle cross-sectional area of the calf via peripheral quantitative computerized tomography (pQCT)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

San Diego State University; 🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States