Promotion of healthy aging in Northern Tasmania: the benefits to older adults of resistance training

The effects of resistance training versus flexibility training on cognitive function, quality of life and mood, muscular control and fitness, and cardiovascular function in older adults: a randomized crossover trial

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12605000534684

Enrollment

Registered

2005-09-28

Start date

2004-01-05

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Subjects undergo 2 exercise periods of 4 months each with order allocated at random: a) resistance training based on the living Longer Living Stronger Program (Council of Ageing Tasmania) with 2 supervised gym and 1 unsupervised home session per week; b) flexibility training with 2 supervised gym and 1 unsupervised home session per week. Each session will last 30-60 minutes

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Crossover

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

60 Years to 75 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Willing to undertake an exercise program in the Launceston and North-west Coast regions of Tasmania.

Exclusion criteria

Pre-existing symptomatic cerebrovascular, cardiovascular disease or dementia, diabetes or hypertension.

Outcome results