Acute Exercise and Addictive Behavior Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Effect of a High Intensity Interval Exercise Bout on Addictive Behaviors in Overweight/Obese Adults
The study will use stress inducing tasks to determine if there are significant improvements in mood, chocolate cravings, and attentional bias to chocolate in overweight/obese chocolate abusers following rest and a bout of high intensity interval exercise.
The purpose of this research study is to investigate whether a single high intensity interval exercise (HIIE) bout, following two stress-inducing tasks, reduces addictive behavior to chocolate. Volunteers must complete the consent form before being able to participate in two days of testing (exercise day and control day) which will be presented in randomized order. The two days will be separated by a one to 7 day washout period. Subjects will be required to submit a three day chocolate diary then abstain from chocolate on the 4th day. They will also be asked to record everything they eat and drink on the day before and the morning of the study and list three types of chocolate they crave most. Two stress-inducing tasks will be performed on both days followed by completion of either 26 minutes of HIIE or seated resting condition followed by the completion of two mood and craving questionnaires. They will finally be asked to complete a task that measures the amount of attention they pay to chocolate. Statistical analyses will be conducted to determine the effect of either exercising or not on addictive behaviors to chocolate. ;