Department of Intervention Research in Exercise Training, German Sport University Cologne, 50933, Köln, Germany.
Trials. 2020 Dec 9;21(1):1007. doi: 10.1186/s13063-020-04797-y.
Sports and exercise training can attenuate age-related declines in physical function. As people age, they suffer a progressive deterioration of overall muscle structure and function, such as muscle diameter, strength, mass, and power. Therefore, supporting older adults-aged 50 years and above-to continue being physically active is a very important factor. Several forms of exercise (strength, agility, endurance, balance, and flexibility) are recommended. In this regard, football has been repeatedly shown to be an integrative approach to promote measures of strength, endurance, and agility. However, there has been no previous randomized controlled trial that comparatively investigates the effects of football training versus traditional aerobic exercise training on muscle architecture and patella tendon properties in healthy community dwellers. The study protocol is designed to examine whether football differentially affects muscle thickness, muscle length, fascicle length, pennation angle, patella tendon length, and thickness compared to a workload matched traditional aerobic exercise training regimen.
The study sample consists of 60 untrained but healthy men (50-60 years old), who will be randomly assigned (strata: age, activate) to two groups: football group (n = 30) and aerobic group (n = 30). The intervention will take place within 12 consecutive weeks, two times a week for 60 min each session. The football group will perform recreational football training as a large-sided game, whereas the aerobic group undergoes a running exercise. Both groups have the same external workload ranging between moderate and high exercise intensity. The outcome measure will be collected before and after the intervention period.
Findings of this study will provide insight into the effects of 24 sessions of both football and aerobic training program on the selected groups of men adults, including detecting their effects on the thigh muscle architecture.
DRKS-German Clinical Trials Register, DRKS00020536 . Registered on 30 January 2020.
运动和锻炼训练可以减轻与年龄相关的身体功能下降。随着年龄的增长，人们会遭受整体肌肉结构和功能的逐渐恶化，例如肌肉直径、力量、质量和力量。因此，支持 50 岁及以上的老年人保持身体活跃是一个非常重要的因素。建议采用几种运动形式（力量、敏捷、耐力、平衡和柔韧性）。在这方面，足球已被反复证明是一种综合方法，可以促进力量、耐力和敏捷度的提高。然而，以前没有随机对照试验比较足球训练与传统的有氧训练对健康社区居民肌肉结构和髌腱特性的影响。该研究方案旨在研究足球训练与传统有氧训练相比是否会对肌肉厚度、肌肉长度、肌束长度、肌纤维角度、髌腱长度和厚度产生不同的影响。
研究样本由 60 名未经训练但健康的男性（50-60 岁）组成，他们将被随机分配（分层：年龄、活动）到两组：足球组（n=30）和有氧组（n=30）。干预将在 12 周内连续进行，每周两次，每次 60 分钟。足球组将进行休闲足球训练作为一种大场比赛，而有氧组则进行跑步运动。两组的外部工作量相同，介于中等和高强度之间。在干预期前后将收集结果测量值。
这项研究的结果将深入了解 24 次足球和有氧训练计划对成年男性的影响，包括检测它们对大腿肌肉结构的影响。
DRKS-German Clinical Trials Register，DRKS00020536。于 2020 年 1 月 30 日注册。
