Effects of aerobic training on fat distribution in male subjects
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Vol. 17 (1), 113???118-118
- https://doi.org/10.1249/00005768-198502000-00018
Abstract
J.P. Després, C. Bouchard, A. Tremblay, R. Savard, and M. Marcotte. Effects of aerobic training on fat distribution in male subjects. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 113–118, 1985. To investigate the effects of aerobic training on adipose tissue morphology and fat distribution, several indicators of body fatness (percent body fat, seven subcutaneous skinfolds, fat cell weight) were assessed in 13 sedentary male subjects (SS) submitted to a 20-wk aerobic training program and in 20 male long-distance runners (LDR). The LDR subjects had a mean ± SD V̇Cmax of 65.9 ± 6.5 ml±mhr-1·kg-1 and averaged 120 km·wk-1. Training increased the V̇O2max values of the SS group significantly (pre: 41.9 ± 7.0 vs post: 53.4 ± 6.4 ml-kg-1 min-1; P < 0.001) and decreased significantly percent body fat (P < 0.01), sum of skinfolds (P < 0.01), and fat cell weight (P < 0.05). Trunk skinfolds were more altered by training than extremity skinfolds, with reductions of 22 and 12.5%, respectively. Significant correlations were found between fat cell weight and percent body fat in SS before and after training (r = 0.75; P < 0.01), while no significant relationship was noted in the LDR group. Moreover, using the sum of skinfolds divided by percent fat or by fat mass to reflect the proportion of subcutaneous fat to total fat, the LDR subjects exhibited less subcutaneous fat than the SS group (P < 0.01) and training did not alter these ratios in the SS group. These results suggest that 20 wk of aerobic training can alter body fatness in men but that the induced fat loss does not seem to deplete preferentially subcutaneous fat.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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