Clinical trial NCT07011290: Physical and Physiological Demands of Different Recreational Team Handball and Walking Modalitiesmodalities
Official title: Physical and Physiological Demands, and Perceived Experience Across Different Recreational Team Handball and Walking Exercise Modalities
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Physiological Demands
Elderly
Keywords: Recreational walking handball
Older adults
Recreational team handball
Lead sponsor: University Institute of Maia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2025-06-08
Enrollment: 23
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 50
Maximum age (years): 82
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study aims to determine the physical and physiological demands and perceived experience during different recreational team handball and walking exercise modalities.

Secondary purposes are:

i) To compare the cardiovascular and blood lactate responses to self-paced walking (W), brisk walking (BW), recreational walking team handball (WTH), and recreational running team handball (RTH); ii) To compare the perceived experience (Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) and Fun levels (FUN)) during self-paced walking (W), brisk walking (BW), recreational walking team handball (WTH), and recreational running team handball (RTH); iii) To compare the activity profile during self-paced walking (W), brisk walking (BW), recreational walking team handball (WTH), and recreational running team handball (RTH);

Detailed description: Statistical analysis:

Linear mixed-effects model accounting for repeated measures within the participants, will be used to compare the working demands and perceived experience during the selected exercise modalities. This model will consider the exercise modalities and group as fixed effects and the participants ID as a random effect.

Significance level will be set at 5%, and confidence intervals will be reported for all comparisons.

Randomization:

Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups due to logistical constraints. Each group will then perform 2 randomly assigned sequences of 4 exercise modalities (i.e., W, BW, WH, RH).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Males with 50-82 years
* Previous recreational team handball experience( at least 3 months)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Had any sort of limitation that prevented them from running or gripping a team handball ball
* Had medical contradictions to partake in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity

Primary outcomes:
measure: Relative average rate
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Relative time spent in each heart rate zone
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Absolute average heart rate
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Absolute time spent in each heart rate zone
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Relative peak heart rate
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Absolute peak heart rate
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Rating of perceived exertion
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Fun levels
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Blood lactate
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Accelerations
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period
measure: Decelerations
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
measure: Player load
timeFrame: Over an 8-week period.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Maia
country: Portugal
facility: University of Maia
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