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Home-based Resistance Training for Adults With Severe Obesity

NCT03900962 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 38

Last updated 2023-08-24

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Summary

This study evaluates whether adding home-based resistance training to a multidisciplinary specialist weight management service can promote weight loss and improve physical function, strength, power and quality of life in adults with severe obesity. The study also investigated whether performing resistance exercises as fast as possible can yield further improvements in physical function compared with traditional slow-speed resistance training.

All recruited participants completed a 3-month home-based resistance training programme with behavioural support; half of the participants performed resistance exercises in a slow and controlled manner, whereas the other half performed resistance exercises with maximal intentional velocity.

Conditions

  • Obesity, Morbid

Interventions

OTHER

Home-based resistance training

Patients completed two home-based resistance training sessions each week on non-consecutive days for 12 weeks. The programme was delivered online via individual playlists on Youtube (YouTube, San Bruno, California, USA), with each playlist involving an individually-prescribed series of pre-recorded exercise videos. Each session involved a dynamic warm-up followed by 11 resistance exercises using body weight and resistance bands, and finished with static stretching. Participants completed 1-2 sets of 5-12 repetitions at 4-7 on a modified 10-point rating of perceived exertion scale, which corresponded to qualitative descriptors of "moderate" to "hard". Resistance training stimuli were progressed weekly by increasing the external load, modifying the exercise selection, increasing the number of repetitions, and/or increasing the number of sets.

OTHER

Walking intervention

After the initial baseline assessment, participants recorded the number of steps they walked daily for seven days using a waist-worn pedometer. Participants maintained their usual physical activity levels during this period. Participants were then encouraged to increase their total steps walked each day by 5% each week during the 12-week intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Hull

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rebecca V Vince, PhD · University of Hull

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-09
Primary Completion
2018-05-18
Completion
2018-08-24

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