An interventional study of One year fitness training in Aging, Movement Efficiency and Sleep, sponsored by Maastricht University Medical Center. Completed at 1 site in Netherlands. Open to participants aged 50 Years to 85 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-03-16.
Sponsored by Maastricht University Medical Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Basic science
Ageing is associated with a reduction of physical activity, movement efficiency, and quality of sleep. This leads to reduced health and well being in elderly subjects. Exercise training can increase movement efficiency and quality of sleep.
Objectives:
45 healthy human volunteers, age 50-83 yr, BMI 20-30 kg/m2 are divided in control or intervention group. Subjects that will have practiced fitness activities in the previous year, as well as pregnant or lactating women, will be excluded.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Follows the fitness program as described in the intervention
Behavioral: One year fitness training
Will not follow any regular fitness activity during one year
Regular training schedule of moderate intensity, at 50% of heart rate reserve, as available for the specific age group in fitness centres
Changes in movement efficiency
The primary objective is to identify features of body acceleration to be included in an index to assess daily life movement efficiency. Secondly, the index is related with age to quantify how ageing affects daily life movement efficiency. The third objective is to show the effects of regular physical activity training on this index. The expected improvement of the index would show that exercise delays the age related decrease of movement efficiency.
Time frame: At baseline and after 1 year
Changes in quality sleep
The primary objective is to identify features of body acceleration to be included in one index to assess quality of sleep in daily life. Secondly, the index is related with age to quantify how ageing affects quality of sleep. The third objective is to show the effects of regular physical activity training on this index. The expected improvement of the index would show that exercise delays the age related decrease of quality of sleep.
Time frame: At baseline and after 1 year
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