Do High Intensity Exercise to lose visceral fat

scottdeeby
scottdeeby Posts: 95 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi,

I came across a study that supports the idea that high intensity exercise is more effective at reducing visceral fat (and other fat too) than low intensity exercise:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc2730190/

Any thoughts on this?

To really convince me, they'd need more subjects in the study. The outliers in their results seem too far off to support any definite conclusion:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730190/figure/F2/

WDYT?

scott

edit: not just visceral fat, but subcutaneous belly and upper thigh fat

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  • vorgas
    vorgas Posts: 741 Member
    I do High Intensity Interval Training 3 times a week. I'm not sure it's better at reducing visceral fat, but honestly I could care less. HIIT has a wealth of other health benefits besides just weight loss, including lower resting heart rate, improved recovery rate, and improved VO2 Max.

    I also do lower and slower aerobic exercise and one of the benefits when combining it with HIIT is that I can now burn far more calories for the same HR/perceived level of exerction than I could before doing HIIT.

    That being said, if I only had 30 minutes a day, 3 days a week for aerobic exercise I would put a HIIT cycle in there without question.
  • vinnieti
    vinnieti Posts: 79 Member
    I think either type of cardio will suffice. HIIT is a lot more fun though. It's my understanding as long as you're in a calorie deficit at the end of the day the visceral fat should come off.
  • scottdeeby
    scottdeeby Posts: 95 Member
    I was hoping to get comments on the paper....any opinions?

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