Loughborough University
Browse
Bailey_Connolly+et+al+EJAP+Lupin.pdf (1017.05 kB)

Effects of self-paced interval and continuous training on health markers in women

Download (1017.05 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2017-09-22, 11:16 authored by Luke J. Connolly, Stephen BaileyStephen Bailey, Peter Krustrup, Jonathan Fulford, Chris Smietanka, Andrew M. Jones
Purpose To compare the effects of self-paced high-intensity interval and continuous cycle training on health markers in premenopausal women. Methods Forty-five inactive females were randomised to a high-intensity interval training (HIIT; n = 15), continuous training (CT; n = 15) or an inactive control (CON; n = 15) group. HIIT performed 5 × 5 min sets comprising repetitions of 30-s low-, 20-s moderate- and 10-s high-intensity cycling with 2 min rest between sets. CT completed 50 min of continuous cycling. Training was completed self-paced, 3 times weekly for 12 weeks. Results Peak oxygen uptake (16 ± 8 and 21 ± 12%), resting heart rate (HR) (−5 ± 9 and −4 ± 7 bpm) and visual and verbal learning improved following HIIT and CT compared to CON (P < 0.05). Total body mass (−0.7 ± 1.4 kg), submaximal walking HR (−3 ± 4 bpm) and verbal memory were enhanced following HIIT (P < 0.05), whereas mental well-being, systolic (−5 ± 6 mmHg) and mean arterial (−3 ± 5 mmHg) blood pressures were improved following CT (P < 0.05). Participants reported similar levels of enjoyment following HIIT and CT, and there were no changes in fasting serum lipids, fasting blood [glucose] or [glucose] during an oral glucose tolerance test following either HIIT or CT (P > 0.05). No outcome variable changed in the CON group (P > 0.05). Conclusions Twelve weeks of self-paced HIIT and CT were similarly effective at improving cardiorespiratory fitness, resting HR and cognitive function in inactive premenopausal women, whereas blood pressure, submaximal HR, well-being and body mass adaptations were training-typespecific. Both training methods improved established health markers, but the adaptations to HIIT were evoked for a lower time commitment.

History

School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

European Journal of Applied Physiology

Citation

CONNOLLY, L.J. ...et al., 2017. Effects of self-paced interval and continuous training on health markers in women. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 117 (11), pp. 2281–2293.

Publisher

© The Authors. Published by Springer Verlag

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-08-28

Publication date

2017-09-20

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Springer under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

ISSN

1439-6319

eISSN

1439-6327

Language

  • en