72
Participants
Start Date
November 30, 2011
Primary Completion Date
May 31, 2016
Study Completion Date
March 31, 2017
High intensity aerobic exercise
Participants will perform 12-weeks of high intensity aerobic training. Training will be 5-days per week. Three days (e.g. Monday, Wednesday and Friday) will include repeated bouts of cycling for 4-minutes at \~90% maximal effort followed by 3 minutes of active rest. The other two days (e.g. Tuesday and Thursday) will be treadmill exercise for 45 minutes at 70% of maximal effort.
Resistance exercise training
Participants will perform 12-weeks of resistance exercise training. Training will be 5-days per week of daily sessions of 60 minutes that include resistance exercise for all major muscle groups.
Combined
The combined group will be assessed before and after 12 weeks of no exercise training, then again following 12 weeks of combined aerobic and resistance exercise training.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Lead Sponsor
Mayo Clinic
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