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Resistance Exercise Training at Different Intensities in Healthy and Frail Older People: A Feasibility Study

NCT03627793 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2018-10-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

After the age of 40-45 years muscle mass and function progressively decline, reducing older peoples' abilities to perform tasks of daily living and also increase the risk of falls. It is known that, across the life course, resistance exercise can be of benefit in increasing muscle mass and function, yet how hard the exercise should be performed has received little attention. Current recommendations are for older people to perform exercise at 70% of the maximum they can lift, quite a high intensity that often puts older people off participating. Recent evidence in younger people has suggested that such intensities are not required.

The investigators aim to determine the feasibility of a study to investigate recruitment and adherence of older people to a study of exercise training at different intensities.

Conditions

  • Frail Elderly Syndrome

Interventions

OTHER

resistance training

Moving muscles against loads with the purpose of increasing strength.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Glasgow

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Evan Campbell, PhD · Univeristy of Glasgow

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-21
Primary Completion
2019-11-29
Completion
2019-11-29

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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