Health Benefits of Chronic vs. Acute Exercise in Overweight Adults
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Obesity
- Interventions
- Other: Exercise
- Registration Number
- NCT01452087
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Brief Summary
Compare the effects of single session of exercise vs. chronic exercise training on key risk factors associated with Metabolic Syndrome (e.g., glucose tolerance, blood lipid profile, and blood pressure) in overweight adults.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 43
Inclusion Criteria
- Body Mass Index: 27-34 kg/m2;
- Regular exercisers(≥4 days/wk of aerobic exercise;
- 30-60min/session at moderate and vigorous intensities);
- Non-exercisers (no regularly planned exercise/physical activity);
- Women must have regularly occurring menses and must be premenopausal.
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Exclusion Criteria
- Pregnant or lactating;
- Evidence/history of cardiovascular or metabolic disease;
- Currently taking medications known to affect lipid or glucose metabolism.
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Exercise Session Exercise Subjects will exercise on a treadmill for 1 hour at moderate intensity (i.e., 90% of the exercise intensity found to elicit their ventilatory threshold during the preliminary testing, which is equivalent to approximately 60% of their maximal predicted heart rate).
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method oral glucose tolerance test 2 hour
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Resting Metabolic Rate 20-30 min
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Substrate Metabolism Laboratory
🇺🇸Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States