Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of abdominal adipose tissue in obese adults after 12 weeks step aerobic exercise. Methods: Twenty obese adults, nine males (mean age 40.00±12.80 years, weight 95.30±17.50 kg) and eleven females (mean age 45.50±8.90 years, weight 80.40±11.50 kg) were recruited as subjects. Subjects were measured abdomen lumbar vertebra (L2-L5) images by computed tomography scan (CT scan) before and after exercise training. The data were analyzed by paired-t test to examine the change of abdomen fat after aerobic exercise. Two-way mixed analysis of variance was used to examine the difference between the different sex abdominal fat quantity with aerobic exercise training. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to examine the body weight increment and the change levels of abdominal fat. The statistical significance was determined at the .05 level. Results: The results showed that there were significant decreased in abdominal fat, visceral fat and subcutaneous fat quantity after exercise training (p<.05). In the different sex with measured before and after in the correlation, the abdominal fat, visceral fat, and subcutaneous fat didn't reach the remarkable difference (p>.05). We found that male's L2-L5 visceral fat was higher than the female's (before 1493.20±511.10 vs. 1419.20±474.70 cm^3, after 1055.40±228.70 vs. 961.40±331.10 cm^3, p<.05). The correlation in body weight, L2-L5 abdominal fat, visceral fat and subcutaneous fat change levels was r=.85, r=.52, r=.67, reaches the remarkable standard (p<.05). Conclusion: The different sex will affect the position which the fat stores up, the male belongs to visceral fat obesity, and the female belongs to subcutaneous. 12 weeks aerobic exercise can reduce weight and abdominal fat effectively. Moreover, surveys L3 or L3-4 solely may accurately estimates the abdominal total visceral fat quantity and make assessment to abdominal total visceral fat quantity of the survey position in the future.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of abdominal adipose tissue in obese adults after 12 weeks step aerobic exercise. Methods: Twenty obese adults, nine males (mean age 40.00±12.80 years, weight 95.30±17.50 kg) and eleven females (mean age 45.50±8.90 years, weight 80.40±11.50 kg) were recruited as subjects. Subjects were measured abdomen lumbar vertebra (L2-L5) images by computed tomography scan (CT scan) before and after exercise training. The data were analyzed by paired-t test to examine the change of abdomen fat after aerobic exercise. Two-way mixed analysis of variance was used to examine the difference between the different sex abdominal fat quantity with aerobic exercise training. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to examine the body weight increment and the change levels of abdominal fat. The statistical significance was determined at the .05 level. Results: The results showed that there were significant decreased in abdominal fat, visceral fat and subcutaneous fat quantity after exercise training (p<.05). In the different sex with measured before and after in the correlation, the abdominal fat, visceral fat, and subcutaneous fat didn't reach the remarkable difference (p>.05). We found that male's L2-L5 visceral fat was higher than the female's (before 1493.20±511.10 vs. 1419.20±474.70 cm^3, after 1055.40±228.70 vs. 961.40±331.10 cm^3, p<.05). The correlation in body weight, L2-L5 abdominal fat, visceral fat and subcutaneous fat change levels was r=.85, r=.52, r=.67, reaches the remarkable standard (p<.05). Conclusion: The different sex will affect the position which the fat stores up, the male belongs to visceral fat obesity, and the female belongs to subcutaneous. 12 weeks aerobic exercise can reduce weight and abdominal fat effectively. Moreover, surveys L3 or L3-4 solely may accurately estimates the abdominal total visceral fat quantity and make assessment to abdominal total visceral fat quantity of the survey position in the future.