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Resistance Training-induced Adaptations in Children

NCT07267429 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2025-12-15

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Summary

Resistance exercise training (RET) in children and adolescents has become a popular activity, with a growing body of evidence supporting its use. Numerous studies indicate that it is safe and effective at increasing muscular strength, improving sport performance, and mitigating injury risk. Despite this evidence, there are still many unknowns with RET in children, including its mechanisms of action in enhancing muscle strength.

Neural and muscular mechanisms can improve muscle strength following RET. Neural factors include improved recruitment and firing of an individual's muscle cells, and muscular factors primarily include an increase in the size of the muscle (hypertrophy). In children, little is known about how these mechanisms relate to muscle strength.

Therefore, the purpose of this study is to non-invasively assess the mechanisms of RET-induced strength increases in children performing 12 weeks of RET, compared with a non-training control group. Broadly, muscular adaptations will be assessed using ultrasound measures, while neural mechanisms will be assessed using surface electromyography decomposition.

Conditions

  • Healthy Participants

Interventions

OTHER

Resistance training

progressive resistance training, 12 weeks, 2 times per week

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brock University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bareket Falk, PhD · Brock University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-12-01
Primary Completion
2026-02-28
Completion
2026-02-28

Countries

  • Canada

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