Effects of High Intensity Circuit Training on Physical Fitness, Body Fat Percentage and Waist-Hip Ratio Among Sedentary Females of Sikandarabad
Condition: Overweight
MeSH terms: Overweight
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      Globally, insufficient Physical Activity (PA) and sedentary life style is recognized as major
      causes of mortality among young and older adults. Approximately, 5 million deaths are
      attributed due to physical inactivity (PI), which contributes around 6% of global death. The
      recent evidence shows that 80 million individuals in Pakistan suffered with non-communicable
      diseases, due to PI that ultimately lead to sedentary behavior. Therefore, the clinical
      practitioners have been highlighting in improving the physical activity among young adults
      not only to prevent chronic disease but also to reduce the risk factors. Despite of the fact,
      a large number of young adults are PI where this proportion remains high among women. WHO
      reports that generally, PI is found to be more prevalent in women, due to workload of house
      chores and care giving role in influence of cultural expectations, especially in low socio
      economic status. Furthermore, several other factors including high cost of fitness programs,
      access to physical activity facilities, transportation and most importantly time barrier are
      the major cause of insufficient PA. Addressing the above barriers, different exercise
      training protocols have been developed to reduce weight in short span of time and then to
      maintain it. According to American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), High Intensity Circuit
      Training (HICT) is a circuit-style workout that uses individual body weight as a resistance
      therefore eliminating the need of expensive gym equipment such as dumbbells, barbells kettle
      bells and many more. In addition, HICT can be performed in any environment (at home, parks
      and in small place) as per the feasibility of the person. However, overweight and obese women
      are found to adhere easily with short bout of exercises (10 minutes) then same women with
      long duration of exercises. Therefore, the aim of this study is to provide cost effective and
      efficient exercise intervention that may not only reduce the disease burden but also motivate
      young sedentary females for group activity.
    

Detailed description: 
      A total 60 healthy sedentary overweight females will be recruited from Sikandrabad. The
      participants shall be screened by using standardize Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire
      (PAR-Q & YOU). After screening, a healthy participant will be allowed to attend the
      orientation session, where a qualified and trained instructor shall discuss and describe the
      exercise training protocol. The High Intensity Circuit Training comprises of 7 full body
      exercises as per recommendation of ACSM, where the participants shall be given total of 18
      sessions of their respective protocol, comprising of 20 minutes, 3 times/ week for duration
      of six weeks. Pre and post assessment will be performed for each participant on all three
      quantitative outcome measures; Physical Fitness, Body fat percentage and Waist-hip ratio. The
      training protocol will be terminated on the happening of following event; a) Decrease in
      oxygen saturation < 90%assessed b) Increase in Heart Rate above the highest limits of
      Targeted Heart Rate c) if subject feel any discomforts, dizziness, fainting or difficulty in
      breathing during performance.
    

Intervention name(s): High Intensity Circuit Training
Intervention type(s): Other
Intervention description(s): The High Intensity Circuit Training comprises of 7 full body exercises as per recommendation of ACSM Where the participants shall be given total of 18 sessions of their respective protocol, comprising of 20 minutes, 3 times/ week for duration of six weeks
Intervention model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Supportive Care