{"id":5302,"date":"2011-09-06T05:45:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2012-12-02T03:03:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:03:01","slug":"aerobic-exercise-best-for-reducing-visceral-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/aerobic-exercise-best-for-reducing-visceral-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Regular Aerobic Exercise Best for Reducing Visceral Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/08\/110825105018.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hot off the presses&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Duke study showed aerobic training significantly reduced visceral fat and liver fat, the culprit in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Aerobic exercise also did a better job than resistance training at improving fasting insulin resistance, and reducing liver enzymes and fasting triglyceride levels. All are known risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;Resistance training is great for improving strength and increasing lean body mass,&#8221; says Slentz. &#8220;But if you are overweight, which two thirds of the population is, and you want to lose belly fat, aerobic exercise is the better choice because it burns more calories.&#8221; Aerobic training burned 67% more calories in the study when compared to resistance training.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-month study followed 196 overweight, sedentary adults (ages 18-70) who were randomized to one of three groups: aerobic training; resistance training or a combination of the two. The aerobic group performed exercises equivalent to 12 miles of jogging per week at 80% maximum heart rate. The resistance group performed three sets of 8 &#8212; 12 repetitions three times per week. All programs were closely supervised and monitored to ensure maximum effort in participation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajpendo.physiology.org\/content\/early\/2011\/08\/10\/ajpendo.00291.2011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for the study abstract.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, unlike Cris Slentz (the lead author), I don&#8217;t see resistance vs. aerobic exercise as an &#8220;either\/or&#8221; proposition. For the end points measured in this study, aerobic exercise was superior. But\u00a0for\u00a0maintaining muscle mass when dieting, and actually having a shape when you&#8217;re done, you won&#8217;t want to rely on aerobic exercise alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the presses&#8230; The Duke study showed aerobic training significantly reduced visceral fat and liver fat, the culprit in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Aerobic exercise also did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,24,28],"tags":[51,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6649,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions\/6649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}