Influences of Low Intensity Exercise on Body Composition, Food Intake and Aerobic Power of Sedentary Young Females

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The present study was designed to investigate the influences of aerobic training on the body composition, aerobic power and food intake of sedentary young females in relation to the initial levels of these variables. Thirty one untrained college females (age=19.8 ± 0.2 yr, stature=154.4 ± 0.8 am, body mass=53.3 ± 1.2 kg, mean ± SEM) participated in an exercise regimen consisting of 40% of maximum oxygen uptake (VO_2max) for 30 minutes per day on a bicycle ergometer 5 times a week in a training period of 12 weeks. Food consumption was ad libitum but the content of daily food intake was recorded accurately throughout the whole training period and analyzed weekly. The average body mass index (BMI) and fat mass relative to body mass (%FM), estimated from the data of skinfold thickness, decreased significantly after the 12 wk training. There were significant negative correlations between the relative changes (%Δs) and initial levels of both body mass (r= -0.447, p<0.05) and fat mass (r= -0.638, p<0.05), but the corresponding correlation for lean body mass (LBM) was not significant (r=0.186, p>0.05). While the energy intake during the training period did not differ significantly from that during the control period on the average, the %Δ value in energy intake between the two periods was negatively correlated to the energy intake during the control period (r= -0.604, p<0.05). In addition, there were low but significant negative correlations between both the initial levels of BMI and %FM and %Δ in energy intake; r= -0.413 (p<0.05) for BMI and r= -0.393 (p<0.05) for %FM. However, no significant correlations were found between %Δ in energy intake and those in body composition variables (r=0.116 to 0.237, p>0.05). On the average VO_2max relative to body mass (VO_2max/BM) increased significantly, but VO_2max relative to LBM (VO_2max/LBM) did not. However, not only VO_2max/BM but also VO_2max/LBM was negatively correlated to the initial level; r= -0.671 (p<0.05) for VO_2max/BM and r= -0.625 for VO_2max/LBM. Thus, the present results indicate that whether the body composition, food intake and aerobic power of sedentary young females can be modified by the exercise regimen eliciting 40% of VO_2max depends on their initial levels.
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Influences of Low Intensity Exercise on Body Composition, Food Intake and Aerobic Power of Sedentary Young Females

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