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136398 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.28914 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ 2015-05 26 pages eng Bennett, Kristen Leigh Ringenbach, Shannon Brown, Steven Barrett, The Honors College School of Nutrition and Health Promotion Text The purpose of our study was to examine the effectiveness of a cycling intervention on body composition in adolescents with Down syndrome (DS). Participants completed one of three interventions over eight consecutive weeks. The interventions were: 1) Voluntary Cycling (VC), in which participants cycled at their self-selected pedaling rate 2) Assisted Cycling (AC), in which the participants' voluntary pedaling rates were assisted with a motor to ensure the maintenance of 80 rpms. 3) No cycling (NC), in which the participants acted as controls. Participants in the AC intervention did not decrease body fat or increase lean body mass however they did maintain these measures during the intervention as compared to the VC and NO participants who increased body fat and decreased lean body mass. These statistics were not exactly as expected nor were they statistically significant. Future research will try to replicate this data with statistically significant values for more cycling adolescents with DS using more randomized intervention groups. Intellectual Disabilities Down syndrome Lean Body Tissue Body Fat Body Mass Bod Pods Adolescents Cycle Therapy improves body fat in Adolescents with Down Syndrome