NCT04655014

Effects of High Intensity Circuit Training on Physical Fitness, Body Fat Percentage and Waist-Hip Ratio Among Sedentary Females of Sikandarabad

Completed NA Last updated 1 October 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing High Intensity Circuit Training in Overweight in 60 participants. Completed in 25 September 2021.

Timeline

5 January 2021

Primary endpoint
15 July 2021

25 September 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Ziauddin University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	60
Start date	5 January 2021
Primary completion	15 July 2021
Estimated completion	25 September 2021
Sites	1 location across Pakistan

Drugs / interventions tested

• High Intensity Circuit Training

Conditions studied

• Overweight — all drugs for Overweight →

Sponsor

Ziauddin University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 35, female only, with Overweight. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

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.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. High-intensity circuit training for improving anthropometric parameters for women from low socioeconomic communities of Sikandarabad: A clinical trial.
   Mehmood S, Khan A, Farooqui S, Zahoor AW, et al · · 2022 · cited 3× · PMID 36251656 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0275895