Spot Reduction in Male Adults

Molde University College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Abdominal aerobic endurance exercise; Other: Control training intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05794854

MUCSR12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Spot reduction, referring to local body fat reduction, pertains to subcutaneous adipose tissue utilization from specific body parts during exercise. Its existence has been keenly debated, although generally accepted not to occur during exercise. However, it is based on not only equivocal data - commonly the training protocol typically applied is based on strength rather than endurance training. The investigators sought to test this assumption by utilizing endurance based exercise controlling for energy expenditure and using dual x-ray absorptiometric measures to assess body composition before and after training.

Enrollment: 16 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 30 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• males
• ≥ 30 years old
• classified as overweight (Body mass index ≥ 25 kg ∙ m-2)
• not participating in regular physical training

Exclusion criteria

• < 30 years old
• Body mass index < 25 kg ∙ m-2
• participating in regular physical training

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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16 participants in 2 patient groups

abdominal aerobic endurance exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects were combining treadmill running at 70% HRmax (27 minutes) with 4x4minutes (30-40% maximal strength, 1RM) of torso rotation and abdominal crunches (57 minutes), 4 d per wk for 10 weeks

Treatment:

Other: Abdominal aerobic endurance exercise

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects performed only treadmill running (45 minutes) at 70% HRmax for 4 d per week for 10 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Control training intervention