Aquatic_Training in Obese Women

Effect of Water-based Aerobic Training on Anthropometric, Biochemical, Cardiovascular, and Explosive Strength Parameters in Young Overweight and Obese Women

This study aims to assess the effects of 10-week water-based aerobic training (thrice a week) on anthropometrics, biochemicals, cardiovascular parameters, and explosive strength in young overweight and obese women. The findings indicate that water-based aerobic training could be a useful program to enhance body composition, biochemical, cardiovascular, and explosive strength parameters in young overweight and obese women compared to inactive persons

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Obesity
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: 10-week water-based aerobic training

Detailed Description

This study is based on a randomized controlled trial with a pre-to-post testing design, twenty-seven young overweight and obese women were assigned to training group (a water-based aerobic training) or control group (maintaining their usual activities during the studying period. For each training session, water activities were implemented for 50 min which included warm-up (10 min), main activities (30 min), and cool-down (10 min). The swimming pool where the intervention took part was 1.50 m deep of water. The pre- and post-intervention participants were assessed for their anthropometrics, biochemicals (fasting glycemia, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride (TG)), resting blood pressure, and resting heart rate, and explosive strength of upper (countermovement jump and squat jump) and lower limbs (a seated medicine ball throw test).

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 31
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • Taipei, Taiwan, 11153
    • Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Taipei

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age between 20 and 35 years
• Sedentary lifestyle within six month
• Not using drugs or other therapy for obesity.

Exclusion Criteria:

• BMI below 25.0 and over 34.9 kg.m-2
• having any infectious or skin diseases

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Training group; Performing a 10-week water-based aerobic training (thrice/week)	Other: 10-week water-based aerobic training; The water-based aerobic program was adopted from the protocol previously used by Costa et al. (2018, 2020). This training program was carried out thrice a week over 2 non-consecutive days 48 hours apart for 10 weeks according to ACSM guidelines
No Intervention: Control group; Maintaining their usual activities during the interventional period

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
fasting glycemia in millimoles per liter	baseline blood sample	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
total cholesterol in millimoles per liter	baseline blood sample	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in millimoles per liter	baseline blood samplelipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride concentrations	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in millimoles per liter	baseline blood sample	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
triglyceride concentrations in millimoles per liter	baseline blood sample	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
systolic blood pressure in millimeters of mercury	baseline blood sample	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
diastolic blood pressure in millimeters of mercury	baseline blood sample	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
heart rate in beat per minute	baseline blood sample	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
fasting glycemia in millimoles per liter	post-training blood sample	one day after the 10-week interventional period
total cholesterol in millimoles per liter	post-training blood sample	one day after the 10-week interventional period
high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in millimoles per liter	post-training blood sample	one day after the 10-week interventional period
low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in millimoles per liter	post-training blood sample	one day after the 10-week interventional period
triglyceride concentrations in millimoles per liter	post-training blood sample	one day after the 10-week interventional period
systolic blood pressure in millimeters of mercury	post-training blood sample	one day after the 10-week interventional period
diastolic blood pressure in millimeters of mercury	post-training blood sample	one day after the 10-week interventional period
heart rate in beat per minute	post-training blood sample	one day after the 10-week interventional period

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
countermovement jump in centimetres	baseline lower limbs power test	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
squat jump in centimeters	baseline lower limbs power test	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
chest 3-kg medicine ball throw in meters	baseline upper limbs power test	3 days before the 10-week interventional period
countermovement jump in centimetres	post-training lower limbs power test	one day after the 10-week interventional period
squat jump in centimeters	post-training lower limbs power test	one day after the 10-week interventional period
chest 3-kg medicine ball throw in meters	post-training upper limbs power test	one day after the 10-week interventional period

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Taipei
• Investigators: Study Director: Yung-Sheng Chen, Ph.D., Department of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Taipei

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 2, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 30, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): March 30, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 28, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 14, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): April 17, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 17, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 14, 2024
• Last Verified: April 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: body composition; lipid profile; obesity management; resting heart rate; aquatic training; physical fitness testing
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Overweight; Body Weight; Obesity
• Other Study ID Numbers: 014_2018

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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