Sprint exercise snacks performed by stair-climbing, 4 days per week; other protocol details were not stated.
Exercise Snacks
Stair-Climbing Exercise Snacks and Abdominal Fat
This randomized trial tested 12 weeks of stair-climbing exercise snacks in sedentary adults with obesity. Compared with control, the intervention improved abdominal and epicardial fat measures and altered several plasma metabolites.
Study overview
- Study title
- Effects of breaking up prolonged sitting via exercise snacks intervention on the body composition and plasma metabolomics of sedentary obese adults: a randomized controlled trial.
- Study authors
- Jianming Zhou, Xiaoning Gao, Dandan Zhang, Chuanwu Jiang, Wenbing Yu
- Population
- Sedentary adults with obesity
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Comparator
- Control group
- Outcomes
- Body composition, Epicardial adipose tissue, Abdominal visceral fat area, Abdominal subcutaneous fat area, Plasma metabolomics
Intervention
Main findings
Compared with the control group, the exercise-snack intervention produced greater improvements in epicardial adipose tissue, abdominal visceral fat area, and abdominal subcutaneous fat area. Isoleucine, glycine, and serine were among the key metabolites that differed between groups. Changes in body composition were associated with altered metabolism of these amino acids.