Better Breaks: Strength Breaks vs Walk Breaks for Sedentary Behavior Breaks
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Sitting breaks.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Sedentary Employees. Basic parameters: from 30 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
MOV'D Strength Snacks vs Walk Breaks Study: Health Performance Gains Across Domains
Overview
This study investigates the benefits of two different types of 2 minute activity breaks during sedentary workdays for people who sit for long periods of time in sedentary jobs.
Detailed description
For this study, participants are randomly assigned to one of two physical activity breaks and for 8 weeks are to do 4 per day and track their daily breaks and productivity. There are many measurements including: in-person strength assessments at baseline, 1 month, and 2 months; daily tracking of breaks; pre and post oral glucose tolerance tests; pre and post 10-day diet tracking; pre and post 10-day Continuous Glucose Monitoring with a Dexcom; genome with saliva at pre; and -omics at pre and post.
Interventions
- Behavioral Sitting breaks
Participants will take 2 minute physical movement breaks throughout a sedentary work day.
Primary outcome measures
- Change in average area under the curve for glucose from a 10 day continuous glucose monitors [Time frame: from baseline to post (8 weeks)]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Change in strength from pre to post [Time frame: from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Change in endurance from pre to post [Time frame: from baseline to 8 weeks]
- Change in one legged strength from pre to post [Time frame: from baseline to 8 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
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Identify inclusion criteria.
- Sedentary occupation (e.g., clerical work, data entry, call center, receptionists)
- Full time employment remote or on-site
- Able to safely perform bodyweight squats and lunges
- Over 30 years old
- Not currently doing a strength training program
- Not currently taking planned activity breaks at work
- Has a smart phone with a camera and unlimited text plans
- Interested in participating
- Fluent in English
- Not currently on insulin or any glucose lowering medication
Exclusion criteria
- Yes to any of the physical activity readiness criteria questionnaire (e.g. cardiac symptoms with increasing heart rate, dizziness upon performing exercise)
- Participating in another research study on diet, weight loss, or any physical activity.
- If their doctor has ever said to not strength train
- Having insulin dependence
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Stanford Prevention Research Center — Palo Alto
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06909097 · 73022