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The goal of this study is to learn how the number of weekly exercise sessions affects improvements in fitness in healthy university aged students. The main question it aims to answer is how training frequency affects improvements in fitness. Participants will complete a pre-testing sessions to assess fitness level and sprint performance. Following this participants are assigned to one of four groups. A group that exercises 2 days a week, a group that trains 3 days a week, a group that trains 4 days a week, or a no-exercise control group. Participants in this group will not complete any training and allow the researchers to compare the exercise groups to a group that didn't train. Each participant will train for 4 weeks. During each training session participants will complete 4-6 30 second all-out sprints with 4 minutes of rest between each. Participants will complete the same tests they did during the pre-testing session following the 4 weeks of training to see how frequency affects improvements.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| 2 days per week group | Experimental | Participants in this group complete 2 training sessions each week (Monday and Thursday). |
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| 3 days per week group | Experimental | Participants in this group complete 3 training sessions each week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). |
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| 4 days per week group | Experimental | Participants in this group complete 4 training sessions each week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday). |
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| No-exercise Control group | No Intervention | This group does not complete any training intervention. They are asked to maintain their regular physical activity habits. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Exercise Intervention | Other | Participants will complete an exercise intervention where they will exercise 2, 3, or 4 days per week for 4 weeks. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Cardiorespiratory fitness | Cardiorespiratory fitness will be assessed through the measurement of maximal oxygen consumption. This will be determined using an incremental exercise test to volitional fatigue on a treadmill. A metabolic cart will be used to assess oxygen consumption using indirect calorimetry | This will be assessed before and after 4 weeks of training (or control). |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Anaerobic performance | Anaerobic performance will be assessed during one 30 second "all-out" sprint completed on a self-propelled treadmill. Participants will be instructed to run as fast and as hard as they can for the entire 30 seconds. Speed will be recorded during this sprint and used to determine, peak, average, and minimum speed, as well as fatigue index. | This will be assessed before and after 4 weeks of training (or control). |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Tom J Hazell, PhD | Contact | 5488893902 | thazell@wlu.ca |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Tom J Hazell, PhD | Wilfrid Laurier University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Wilfrid Laurier University | Recruiting | Waterloo | Ontario | N2L 3C5 | Canada |
Data will be made available to other researchers upon reasonable request.
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Following pre-testing participants are assigned to one of the four groups based on their baseline cardiorespiratory fitness to ensure no differences between groups at baseline. Participants will train 2, 3, or 4 days a week, or be assigned to the control group (no training) and re-test following the 4 week intervention.
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All pre- and post-testing is completed by researchers not involved in training, and thus are blinded to which group participants are assigned to. This prevents any potential bias when researchers are completing post-testing sessions.