Abstract
Accumulation of adipose tissue in specific body areas is related to many physiological and hormonal variables. Spot reduction (SR) is a training protocol aimed to stimulate lipolysis locally, even though this training protocol has not been extensively studied in recent years. Thus, the present study sought to investigate the effect of a circuit-training SR on subcutaneous adipose tissue in healthy adults. Methods: Fourteen volunteers were randomly assigned to spot reduction (SR) or to a traditional resistance training (RT) protocol. Body composition via bioimpedance analysis (BIA) and subcutaneous adipose tissue via skinfold and ultrasound were measured before and after eight weeks of training. Results: SR significantly reduced body mass (p < 0.05) and subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue (p < 0.05). Conclusions: circuit-training SR may be an efficient strategy to reduce in a localized manner abdominal subcutaneous fat tissue depot.
Highlights
Academic Editors: AntónioCarlos Sousa and Pantelis T
As a matter of fact, we demonstrated that a MCT induces greater total body fat loss and an improvement of metabolic variables compared to endurance training [32,33] but, except for our pilot trial in the 900 s [34] no one analyzed the effects of a MCT on regional fat loss
Height and body mass were measured, body composition was assessed via bioimpedance analysis (BIA) and skinfolds, and ultrasound was used to quantify the thickness of the adipose panicle
Summary
In the light of the above, the purpose of the present study was to reconsider the spot reduction approach using a modified MCT protocol. We aimed to emphasize the positive effect of MCT by streamlining the order of proposed exercise to focus the major metabolic stress on the target body areas
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