{"id":5677,"date":"2025-12-09T12:29:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:48:09","slug":"overtraining-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/research\/overtraining-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Recruitment: Overtraining Study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Join a FREE 4-week High-Intensity Training Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nutrition and Exercise Physiology Department is conducting a study aimed at examining the effects of a 4-week high-intensity cycling training program, followed by a 3-week recovery period. We want to better understand the body\u2019s response to periods of intensified training! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are looking <strong>for healthy adults<\/strong> (ages 18-50) who are:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Recreationally active<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Free from cardiovascular or pulmonary diseases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Able to exercise consistently five days per week for 4 weeks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In this study,<\/strong> you will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Exercise regularly (5 days a week) for 4 weeks (Group 1) <strong>AND<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be tracked for recovery (once weekly) for 3 weeks (Group 1) <strong>or<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Come in once a week for exercise and lung function testing for 7 weeks (Group 2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Undergo exercise testing and body composition assessment (BodPod)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regularly fill out questionnaires concerning your health and mood<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regularly provide blood, urine, and induced sputum samples<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regularly have your lung function assessed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon recruitment, subjects will be immediately randomized into either group1 or into group 2. Group 2 subjects will be asked to come in once a week for 7 weeks for exercise and lung function testing. Outside of testing days, group 2 subjects will be asked to maintain a normal and consistent lifestyle of exercise habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For more information about the study, please contact either:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Eric Pitman at <a href=\"mailto:eric.pitman@wsu.edu\">eric.pitman@wsu.edu<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hans Haverkamp at (509)-368-6912 or <a href=\"mailto:hans.haverkamp@wsu.edu\">hans.haverkamp@wsu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This study has been approved for human subject participation by the Washington State University Institutional Review Board (IRB18860)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join a FREE 4-week High-Intensity Training Program The Nutrition and Exercise Physiology Department is conducting a study aimed at examining the effects of a 4-week high-intensity cycling training program, followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":[],"featured_media":5787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[437,1524],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5679,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}