Clinical trial NCT06166251: The Effects of Exercise Timing and Intensity on Motor Learning in Healthy Adults.
Official title: Effects of a Single Bout of Low and Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise on Acquisition and Retention of Motor Learning in Young Adults
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy
Keywords: exercise
motor skills
retention
Young Adult
Sleep Quality
Lead sponsor: Trakya University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-12-12
Enrollment: 75
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 19
Maximum age (years): 24
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: 75 young adults were divided into five groups: two groups that did low or moderate intensity aerobic exercise before motor practice (LOW-MP, MOD-MP), two groups that did aerobic exercise after motor practice (MP-LOW, MP-MOD), and non-exercise control group.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to compare of the effects of a single session of aerobic exercise with different intensity and timing on motor learning processes in healthy young adults.

Detailed description: Long-term aerobic training are associated with improved motor learning. Recent studies have shown that even a single bout of moderate or high ıntensity aerobic exercise can lead to immediate improvements on motor learning. On the other hand, there is still insufficient knowledge about whether aerobic exercise should occur before or after motor practice and what the intensity of aerobic exercise should be. In this study, the ınvestigators examined the effects of a single bout of low and moderate intensity aerobic exercise applied before or after motor practice on golf putting task. Additionally, the ınvestıgators evaluated the effects of sleep quality on motor learning and the acute effects of the exercise on cognition. 75 young adults were divided into five groups: two groups that did low or moderate intensity aerobic exercise before motor practice (LOW-MP, MOD-MP), two groups that did aerobic exercise after motor practice (MP-LOW, MP-MOD), and non-exercise control group. The acquisition practice consisted of six blocks of ten golf puttings. The retention was also evaluated both 1 day and 7 days after the experimental day with one block each. The putting performance was measured with accuracy and consistency error scores were computed for each acquisition and retention block. The sleep quality of the night before and the experimental day were evaluated using the Richard Campbell Sleep Scale.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age between 18-24 years
* Risk score less than two based on The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) health/fitness facility pre-participation screening questionnaire
* Physical activity level\>1500 MET/min weeks based on the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)

Exclusion Criteria:

* being elite athletes
* being smokers
* using psychiatric/neurologic medications.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Bivariate variable error score (BVE)
timeFrame: For each of 8 golf putting blocks (6 acquisition blocks on the experimental day, 1 retention block 1 day after the experimental day and 1 retention block 7 days after the experimental day
measure: Median Radial Error (MRE)
timeFrame: For each of 8 golf putting blocks (6 acquisition blocks on the experimental day, 1 retention block 1 day after the experimental day and 1 retention block 7 days after the experimental day
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Paced auditory serial addition task (PASAT)
timeFrame: For the four exercise groups: On the experimental day 2 times immediately before and after the half-hour exercise For control group: immediately before and after the half-hour rest.
measure: Richard Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ)
timeFrame: Day 1 (experimental day) and Day 2 (1 day retention visit)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Edirne
country: Turkey
facility: Faculty of Health Science, Trakya University
state: İskender
Study officials:
affiliation: Trakya University
name: Muhammed Ş Yıldırım, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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