Superset Strength Training for Time-efficiency

Sedentary Lifestyle Clinical Trial

Official title:

Superset Strength Training for Time-efficiency - A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04038177
• Other study ID #: 2019-07-VMI
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 5, 2019
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Physical inactivity is a global challenge and there is an urgent need to find strategies to increases people's activity levels. Strength training is one of the activities that is recommended to engage in regularly by both the American College of Sports Medicine and the World Health Organization. Understanding how strength training can be done effectively without spending much time could potentially increase people's involvement in strength training, as lack of time often is reported as barrier to training. Superset strength training can potentially be a time-efficient way of strength training, as this training method has been found to take half the time of the traditional ways of training.

The aim of the present study is therefore to compare the effects of superset strength training and traditional strength training on muscular strength, body composition and fatigue.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: December 20, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 45 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• living in Trøndelag

• did not perform weekly strength training during the past 6 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

• any known severe somatic condition (e.g., autoimmune and systemic inflammatory diseases, cancer, severe osteoporosis)

• any known severe psychiatric condition

• other contraindications for heavy resistance training (e.g. shoulder pain).

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Sedentary Lifestyle

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Superset strength training
Three weeks of familiarization (two times per week) to the exercises leg-press, bench press, lateral pulldown and seated rows, followed by superset strength training two days per week for 12-weeks. Superset 1 are bench-press and seated rows, and superset 2 are leg-press and lateral pulldown. Each superset is performed three times.
• Traditional strength training
Three weeks of familiarization (two times per week) to the exercises leg-press, bench press, lateral pulldown and seated rows, followed by strength training two days per week for 12-weeks. Each exercise is performed for three sets with rest intervals between each set.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Trondheim

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Training load	Assessed by training diaries	continuously for 3 months
Other	Training volume	Assessed by training diaries	continuously for 3 months
Other	Perceived exhaustion	Borg Category Ratio Scale (0-10) - information from training diaries	continuously for 3 months
Other	Participant's experiences with the intervention	Semi-structured focus group interviews with questions regarding the experience participant had during the intervention, questions related to the training program, questions related to motivation and fatigue, questions related to time-efficiency	3 months
Primary	Change in muscular strength	Change in one repetition maximum strength (weight in kilograms) for all exercises	3 months
Secondary	Change in body weight	Assessed using a body composition analyzer (i.e. InBody)	3 months
Secondary	Change in muscle mass	Assessed using a body composition analyzer (i.e. InBody)	3 months
Secondary	Change in body composition fat mass	Assessed using a body composition analyzer (i.e. InBody)	3 months
Secondary	Change in body composition BMI	Assessed using a body composition analyzer (i.e. InBody)	3 months