Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2015
Effects of soccer vs swim training on bone formation in sedentary middle-aged women.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06866561 (The Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Bone Formation and Resorption Markers And The Quality of Life Tests in Postmenopausal Osteopenic Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Bone Formation and Resorption Markers And The Quality of Life Tests in Postmenopausal Osteopenic Patients
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Health Benefits of Different Sports: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal and Intervention Studies Including 2.6 Million Adult Participants.Sports medicine - open · 2024Pooled it
- The effect of aquatic exercise on bone mineral density in older adults. A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Pooled it
- Recreational Football and Bone Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Small-Sided Soccer Games on Physical Fitness, Physiological Responses, and Health Indices in Untrained Individuals and Clinical Populations: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Pooled it
- Broad-spectrum physical fitness benefits of recreational football: a systematic review and meta-analysis.British journal of sports medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Chronic Physiological Effects of Swim Training Interventions in Non-Elite Swimmers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Pooled it
- "The effect of aerobic exercise on bone formation and resorption markers and the quality of life tests in postmenopausal osteopenic patients".BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Trial
- 15 weeks of soccer training increases left ventricular mass and improves indices of left ventricular diastolic function in previously sedentary, mildly hypertensive, middle-aged women.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Trial
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- Gender-dependent evaluation of football as medicine for prediabetes.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Trial
- Cardiovascular, muscular, and skeletal adaptations to recreational team handball training: a randomized controlled trial with young adult untrained men.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Trial
- Effects of ZumbaMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Trial
- Short Duration Small Sided Football and to a Lesser Extent Whole Body Vibration Exercise Induce Acute Changes in Markers of Bone Turnover.BioMed research international · 2016Trial
- Recreational football training preserves bone health in women over 9 years during the menopause transition.Biology of sport · 2026Article
- Effects of football training on patients with hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Vitamin D levels and bone mineral density of middle-aged premenopausal female football and volleyball players in Japan: a cross-sectional study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Bone Health, Body Composition and Physiological Demands in 70-85-Year-Old Lifelong Male Football Players.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effects of aquatic high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training on central hemodynamic parameters, endothelial function and aerobic fitness in inactive adults.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2022Article
- The effect of aquatic High Intensity Interval Training on cardiometabolic and physical health markers in women: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2022Review
- Effects of 8-week High-Intensity Interval Training and Moderate-Intensity Continuous Training on Bone Metabolism in Sedentary Young Females.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe present study examined the effects of 15 weeks of soccer training and two different swimming training protocols on bone turnover in sedentary middle-aged women.
methodsEighty-three premenopausal mildly hypertensive women [age: 45 ± 6 (± SD) years, height: 165 ± 6 cm, weight: 80.0 ± 14.1 kg, body fat: 42.6 ± 5.7 %, systolic blood pressure/diastolic blood pressure: 138 ± 6/85 ± 3 mmHg] were randomized into soccer training (SOC, n = 21), high-intensity intermittent swimming (HS, n = 21), moderate-intensity swimming (MS, n = 21) intervention groups, and a control group (C, n = 20). The training groups completed three sessions per week for 15 weeks. DXA scans were performed and resting blood samples were drawn pre- and post-intervention.
resultsIn SOC, plasma osteocalcin, procollagen type I N propeptide and C-terminal telopeptide increased (P < 0.05) by 37 ± 15, 52 ± 23 and 42 ± 18 %, respectively, with no changes in MS, HS and C. The intervention-induced increase in SOC was larger (P < 0.05) than in MS, HS and C. In SOC, leg BMC increased (P < 0.05) by 3.1 ± 4.5 %, with a larger increase in SOC than in C. Femoral shaft and trochanter bone mineral density (BMD) increased (P < 0.05) by 1.7 ± 1.9 and 2.4 ± 2.9 %, respectively, in SOC, with a greater (P < 0.05) change in SOC than in MS and C, whereas total body and total leg BMD did not change in any of the groups.
conclusionIn conclusion, 15 weeks of soccer training with sedentary middle-aged women caused marked increases in bone turnover markers, with concomitant increases in leg bone mass. No changes in bone formation and resorption markers were seen after prolonged submaximal or high-intensity intermittent swimming training. Thus, soccer training appears to provide a powerful osteogenic stimulus in middle-aged women.
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