Data base of HIIT and state moods on overweight participants in virtual and face-to-face training

Abstract

The main purpose was to compare the effects of a 35-minute HIIT session, in virtual and face-to-face modalities, on mood states and perceived effort in overweight individuals. A total of 13 subjects (5 men and 8 women) with a mean age of 37.85 ± 13.20 years (range, 17 to 60 years) were randomly assigned to each of the three conditions (control, face-to-face training and virtual training). Prior to and immediately after each intervention, the POMS test was applied to measure mood states. Regarding perceived effort (PE) was measured at the end of each of the HIIT exercises (not during the warm-up and cool-down exercises). A 2-way ANOVA with repeated measures (condition [3] x measurement [2]) showed that both, tension and vigor after completing the face-to-face training had a significant increase; also, vigor increase in the virtual session. On the other hand, the PE values reported in the measurements of the face-to-face and virtual conditions were above those suggested in the literature. In conclusion, a HIIT session for overweight people in a face-to-face or virtual manner leads to similar changes in mood states, except for vigor, which increased only on face-to-face, the other variables showed a similar behavior.