Effects of Nitrates and Citrulline Malate on Performance in Professional Professional Soccer
- Conditions
- Supplementation
- Interventions
- Dietary Supplement: Control productDietary Supplement: Nitrates and Citrulline Malate
- Registration Number
- NCT05525871
- Lead Sponsor
- Universidad CatĂłlica San Antonio de Murcia
- Brief Summary
Randomized, single-center, parallel, team-stratified, stratified experimental study to evaluate the efficacy of a high sports supplement in improving high-intensity intermittent exercise performance in professional female soccer players.
- Detailed Description
Subjects who meet the selection criteria will be randomly assigned to each of the study groups (investigational product or placebo, depending on the group to which they have been assigned).
The product to be consumed will be Nitrates and Citrulline Malate. Participants will consume the product for 30 days. The intake should be done two hours before each training session and the same dose will be consumed.
The women's soccer players will perform a stress test with gas analysis to measure performance, as well as a Wingate test without consumption of the products. Five days later, the players will perform the Yo-Yo IR1 test in the field and will repeat the same tests performed at the beginning of the test after product consumption.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- 40
- Present at the time of signing the informed consent at the age between 18 and 40 years.
- Female.
- Healthy subjects without any chronic disease.
- Volunteers capable of understanding the clinical study, willing to give their written informed. consent and comply with the procedures and requirements of the study. and requirements of the study.
- Players who change teams during the experimental study.
- Smoking subjects.
- Subjects using mouthwashes during the study.
- Subjects with a history of drug, alcohol or other substance abuse or other factors that limit their ability to cooperate during the study. factors that limit their ability to cooperate during the study.
- Subjects whose status makes them ineligible for the study, at the discretion of the investigator discretion of the investigator.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Control product Control product Consumption of placebo product (Fruit puree) Nitrates and Citrulline Malate Nitrates and Citrulline Malate Gel elaborated from fruit puree with high polyphenol content, with the addition of nitrates and citrulline malate as study supplements. addition of nitrates and citrulline malate as study supplements.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Aerobic and anaerobic thresholds - VO2max Change in initial maximal oxygen consumption at 30 days Measured with a gas analyzer
Fatigue in jumping Change in initial jump fatigue at 30 days Measured with a contact platform
Anaerobic capacity Change in baseline anaerobic capacity at 30 days Measured with a Monark cycloergometer
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Microcapillary blood It will be measured on two different occasions. Day one and 30 days later. This test provides biochemical variables (ABL90FLEX) with 70 ml of capillary blood.
Lactate It will be measured on two different occasions. One on the first day (without intake of product ) and 30 days later, the same measurements but after having consumed the product Lactate levels will be measured using the Lactate Pro
Safety variables It will be measured on two different occasions. Day one and 30 days later. It is a blood test that measures the presence of some enzymes, proteins and bilirubin in the blood, with the aim of determining if there is any alteration in the liver.
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Catholic University of Murcia
🇪🇸Murcia, Spain