You can fight belly fat with strength-trainingWomen can fight belly fat effectively with a good strength-training program, a recent National Institutes of Health study revealed. The study focused on intra-abdominal fat, the kind that wraps itself around your internal organs and is almost impossible to lose for many women, especially as they age. It's also dangerous, since an "apple-shaped-body" is a risk factor for heart disease in women.
The study involved 164 overweight and obese women between the ages of 24-44. They were divided into 2 groups: one group took part in a 2 year weight training program and the other group was simply given advice to exercise for 30 minutes to an hour a day for most of the days of the week. Both groups were told not to change their diet in a way that would cause them to lose weight.
The group that went into the weight training program showed only a 7 per cent increase in intra-abdominal fat. The group that was given exercise advice showed a 21 percent increase.
The strength-training group also showed a decrease in body fat of almost 4 percent while the fitness advice group stayed the same.
The lead author of the study, Kathryn Schmitz, said that the women in the study were in a supervised strength-training program for 16 weeks and it focused on chest, back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, lower back, buttocks and thighs. (It�s interesting to note that the abdominal area was not included in this list.) She commented that this was not a program that you could do in your home unless you had a full gym in your house.
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