NCT05794854

Spot Reduction in Male Adults

The Assessment of Spot Reduction in Adults Males Following Endurance Training

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: Molde University College · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 30 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Abdominal aerobic endurance exercise	Subjects combined treadmill running at 70% HRmax (27 minutes) with 4x4minutes (30-40% maximal strength, 1RM) of torso rotation and abdominal crunches (57 minutes), 4 days per wk for 10 weeks
OTHER	Control training intervention	Subjects performed treadmill running (45 minutes) at 70% HRmax 4 days per week for 10 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-08-01
• Primary completion: 2006-05-01
• Completion: 2006-05-01
• First posted: 2023-04-03
• Last updated: 2023-04-03