Effects of Load Monitoring on Pilates Training

Effects of Load Monitoring on Pilates Training: a Randomized Clinical Trial

There has been an increasing awareness about the need to practice some physical activity, including several objectives, mainly as a preventive character. From this perspective, notice the use of the Pilates method as an instrument of therapeutic exercise for the protection and promotion of health. However, despite being popularly performed, there is still no scientific evidence on the standardization of the use of the method and its progression to an adequate prescription of physical training. The objective is monitoring the progression of loads of a 12-week training among the basic, intermediate and advanced levels of the Pilates method through heart rate (HR), subjective exertion perception (PSE) and heart rate variability (HRV). In addition, analyzing the effect of the method on cardiorespiratory and autonomic parameters. 40 healthy men aged 18-36 will receive Pilates training for 12 weeks. After the initial assessment and familiarization with the method, the training period will begin totalizing 36 sessions for three months, where each class lasts approximately 1 hour. During the three months, the participants must pass through the three levels of training: Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. During each session, the investigators will initially collect: psychological questionnaire, visual analogue pain scale (VAS), and cardiorespiratory parameters (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, HR, respiratory rate and partial oxygen saturation). Throughout the session a heart rate meter will be positioned on the chest of the participant to capture HR, which will occur every five minutes together with the PSE illustrated in the model proposed by Borg. At the end of each session, the cardiorespiratory parameters will be collected again. In addition, cardiorespiratory parameters and HRV will be analyzed at baseline and after three months of training. In the case of HRV analysis, linear methods in the time and frequency domain will be verified. For the statistical analysis of the cardiorespiratory and autonomic parameters in the pre and post training moments will be used paired t test for normal data or Wilcoxon test for non normal data. For the analysis of the training load will be used the correlation of Pearson or Sperman according to normality. The definition of cutoff points for the HRV and PSE indices will be obtained by the ROC curve.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Exercise; Pilates Method
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Pilates exercise

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 47
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Brazil
  • São Paulo
    • Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil, 55
      • Franciele Marques Vanderlei

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 34 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• male sex
• healthy
• aged between 18 and 36 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• smokers
• alcoholics
• use drugs that influenced cardiac autonomic activity
• cardiovascular, metabolic or endocrine diseases.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental group; (n = 20) will practice Pilates exercises	Other: Pilates exercise; Pilates methods exercises
No Intervention: Control group; (n = 20) will not carry out the intervention

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Change from baseline in the indices of heart rate variability in different levels of pilates (basic, intermediate and advanced)	Eight (transition from basic to intermediate level) and twelfth week (transition from intermediate to advanced level)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Change from baseline in the subjective perception of effort in different levels of pilates (basic, intermediate and advanced)	Eight (transition from basic to intermediate level) and twelfth week (transition from intermediate to advanced level)
Change from baseline in the heart rate in different levels of pilates (basic, intermediate and advanced)	Eight (transition from basic to intermediate level) and twelfth week (transition from intermediate to advanced level)

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Paulista University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Cavina AP, Silva NM, Biral TM, Lemos LK, Junior EP, Pastre CM, Vanderlei LC, Vanderlei FM. Effects of 12-week Pilates training program on cardiac autonomic modulation: a randomized controlled clinical trial. J Comp Eff Res. 2021 Dec;10(18):1363-1372. doi: 10.2217/cer-2021-0195. Epub 2021 Oct 21.
• de Souza Cavina AP, Pizzo Junior E, Machado AF, Biral TM, Pastre CM, Vanderlei FM. Load monitoring on Pilates training: a study protocol for a randomized clinical trial. Trials. 2019 Oct 17;20(1):597. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3684-x.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 1, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 25, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 25, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): July 28, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 3, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 2, 2020
• Last Verified: March 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Exercise; Autonomic Nervous System; Heart rate variability; Heart Rate; Exercise Movement Techniques; Monitoring, Physiologic
• Other Study ID Numbers: 69459517.8.0000.5402

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No