Evaluation of a Training Recommendation Strategy for Trail Runners.
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In plain language
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: Training recommendations GEN, Training recommendations PERSO, Training recommendations PERSO-ADAPT.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Endurance Training. Basic parameters: 18 years — 65 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
- France
- 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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Overview
Finding the optimal training, i.e. the training that enables the athlete to achieve the best performance while preserving their physical and psychological integrity, is a multi-factorial issue. Each individual's background and training capacity are very different, hence the need for personalised training. The availability of data combined with advances in Artificial Intelligence (data modelling and analysis sciences, big data, machine learning, deep learning, etc.) offer the opportunity to refine our understanding of training and adapt recommendations according to the runner's profile for a given objective (achieving a time over a distance, completing an event, etc.). The strategy that the investigators wish to evaluate as part of this trial could make it possible to recommend an optimal training load, as well as the distribution of intensities (as a percentage of the aerobic threshold, anaerobic threshold, VVO2max, etc). The two features are (i) the personalisation will be based on training history, the level of the runner, age and gender, and the runner can focus on training, and (ii) the strategy will be adaptive, i.e. the algorithm will update the training load in real time based on contextual data about the athlete (level of fatigue via heart rate variability, feedback on recent training sessions, feelings of stress).
Interventions
- Procedure Training recommendations GEN
Generic training plan that will be created from a platform that is both free and popular, offering training plans for trail-running (The Decathlon Pacer application). - Procedure Training recommendations PERSO
A training plan that takes into account the rider's training history, in particular the number of hours per week over the last two years, the rider's level, age and gender, the time available for training and access to mountainous terrain. - Procedure Training recommendations PERSO-ADAPT
A training plan that takes into account the rider's training history, in particular the number of hours per week over the last two years, the level, age and gender of the rider, the time available for training and access to mountainous terrain. Training will also be adapted on a weekly basis according to the following feedback: state of fatigue assessed by questionnaire and heart rate variability; state of overtraining, assessed by questionnaire; degree of completion of sessions.
Primary outcome measures
- Comparison of the ITRA performance index [Time frame: Month : 10]
Secondary outcome measures (6)
- Number of injuries [Time frame: Weeks : 1 to 40]
- ROF (Rating-of-Fatigue Scale) [Time frame: Weeks : 1 to 40]
- RPE (Rating of Perceived Exertion) [Time frame: Weeks : 1 to 40]
- Hooper questionnaire [Time frame: Weeks : 1 to 40.]
- The '36-12' field test [Time frame: Weeks : 6, 13, 20, 27, 34, 40.]
- The 1200 test [Time frame: Weeks : 6, 13, 20, 27, 34, 40.]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Have no contraindications to trail running (Fédération Française d'Athlétisme test procedures)
- Have been trail running competitively for at least 1 year
- In possession of an ITRA performance index
- Intends to run at least one ITRA-indexed race in the second half of the follow-up period
- Own a training watch, and intend to record all training sessions of more than 10 minutes in their shared database
- Have freely given their written consent.
Exclusion criteria
- Any person with chronic joint pathologies (e.g. recurrent sprains, patellar or ligament problems) or cardiac pathologies.
- Any person with chronic or central neurological pathologies.
- Any person deprived of their liberty or under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship, safeguard of justice, family habilitation).
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
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
France · 1 center
- Unités de Myologie et de Médecine du Sport — Saint-Etienne
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07374016 · 24CH251