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NCT Number: NCT06111144

Effects of Polarized and Pyramidal Training Combined With or Without Mindfulness in Amateur Runners

Road running in athletics has grown worldwide in recent years, which has led to an increase in the number of recreational runners. Despite this growth, research addressing this population is scarce, with major limitations and methodological weaknesses. Two of the topics of recent interest in runners are the effects of training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness on running time, body composition and physiological parameters related to performance in endurance sports; the maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), maximal aerobic speed (MAS) and ventilatory thresholds (VT).

The scarce evidence found identifies the TID polarized model as the most effective in sports performance and TID pyramidal model as the most used by elite runners. For mindfulness, it is identified as an emerging program that could contribute to performance in endurance sports.

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Key information

Conditions

Healthy Volunteers

Age range

25 year–50 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

JC Running

Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia

About this study

40 recreational long-distance runners will be randomly assigned into one of the following 4 TID models groups: polarized TID model group with mindfulness program (POL+), polarized TID model group without mindfulness program (POL-), pyramidal TID model group with mindfulness program (PYR+) and pyramidal TID model group without mindfulness program (PYR-). Each group will be composed of 10 subjects. The interventions will have a duration of 12 weeks.

All participants will have evaluation of 10 km running time, body composition and physiological parameters (VO2max, MAS and VT's 1 and 2) at week 0 and 13 of the study.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Amateur long-distance runners
  • Running time of 10 km in Bogotá, Colombia or similar altitude (2600 m above sea level) for men between 45 and 60 minutes, and for women between 50 and 65 minutes.

Exclusion criteria

  • Smokers.
  • History of cardiovascular disease.
  • Arrhythmias.
  • Cardiac insufficiencies.
  • Hypertension.
  • Musculoskeletal problems that affect their participation in the training program.

Treatment and study plan

Polarized training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness

Behavioral

Polarized TID model group with mindfulness program (POL+)

Pyramidal training intensity distribution (TID) and mental training using mindfulness

Behavioral

Pyramidal TID model group with mindfulness program (PYR+)

Polarized training intensity distribution (TID) without mindfulness

Behavioral

Polarized TID model group without mindfulness program (POL-)

Pyramidal training intensity distribution (TID) without mindfulness

Behavioral

Pyramidal TID model group without mindfulness program (PYR-).

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in 10 km race time

    Time frame: Week 0 and 13

    The time in the 10 km will be taken by two evaluators with independent stopwatches, and the average of them will be taken as the official time. The test will take place in a 1257 m loop, with a positive difference in altitude of 5 m.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in VO2max

    Time frame: Week 0 and 13

    Incremental test to exhaustion on a Woodway© model 4Front treadmill. During the test, VO2 will be measured breath-by-breath by a portable metabolic system COSMED© model K5.

    The VO2max will be calculated as the average oxygen consumption of the last 30 seconds measured in the incremental test.

  2. Change in ventilatory threshold 1

    Time frame: Week 0 and 13

    Incremental test to exhaustion on a Woodway© model 4Front treadmill. During the test, ventilatory threshold 1 will be measured by a portable metabolic system COSMED© model K5.

    Ventilatory threshold 1 will be defined as the first increase in ventilatory equivalent for oxygen (VE/VO2) vs. load, without a simultaneous increase in ventilatory equivalent for carbon dioxide (VE/VCO2) vs. load.

  3. Change in ventilatory threshold 2

    Time frame: Week 0 and 13

    Incremental test to exhaustion on a Woodway© model 4Front treadmill. During the test, ventilatory threshold 2 will be measured by a portable metabolic system COSMED© model K5.

    Ventilatory threshold 2 will be defined as the second increase in ventilation with a concomitant rapid increase in VE/VO2 and VE/VCO2 and a decrease in the partial pressure of exhaled carbon dioxide (PETCO2).

  4. Change in maximal aerobic speed

    Time frame: Week 0 and 13

    Incremental test to exhaustion on a Woodway© model 4Front treadmill. During the test, maximal aerobic speed will be measured by a portable metabolic system COSMED© model K5.

    The maximal aerobic speed will be determined at the speed corresponding to the VO2max.

  5. Change in body weight

    Time frame: Week 0 and 13

    Body weight (kg) will be obtained using a HBF-514C OMRON© body composition analyzer

  6. Change in body fat

    Time frame: Week 0 and 13

    Body fat (%) will be obtained using a HBF-514C OMRON© body composition analyzer

  7. Change in muscle mass

    Time frame: Week 0 and 13

    Muscle mass (%) will be obtained using a HBF-514C OMRON© body composition analyzer

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Universidad de Antioquia

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Registry information

Official study title

Effects of Polarized and Pyramidal Training Models Combined With or Without Mindfulness on Running Time, Performance Variables, and Body Composition in Amateur Long-distance Runners. A Randomized Controlled Trial

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2023
Study completion
2023
First posted
Nov 1, 2023
Registry last updated
Oct 3, 2024

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