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Superset Strength Training for Time-efficiency

NCT04038177 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2020-07-07

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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.

Conditions

  • Sedentary Lifestyle

Interventions

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.

BEHAVIORAL

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vegard moe Iversen, PhD · Norwegian University of Science and Technology

  • Øystein Risa · Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-05
Primary Completion
2019-12-20
Completion
2019-12-20

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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