Abstract
Physical exercise limits fat mass and prevents obesity, and aerobic exercise promotes lipid consumption. We studied a woman aged 62 years who did not exercise regularly. She wore four types of experimental support pants of different leg lengths and undertook 30 min of aerobic exercise at between 10 and 60 W, in sequential 6-min bursts. Her respiratory metabolism and heart rate were measured using a bicycle ergometer. Respiratory metabolism in a sitting position was measured while wearing each type of support for 6 min. Tights and pants reduced body fat during aerobic exercise at light loads and leggings increased the rate of reduction at light and heavy loads. We conclude that support wear aids the loss of body fat while sedentary and during light exercise and that leggings help reduce body fat during light and heavy exercise.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Abbreviations
- AC:
-
After control
- BC:
-
Before control
- CO:
-
Carbohydrate oxidation
- EC:
-
Energy consumption
- LO:
-
Lipid oxidation
- HR:
-
Heart rate
- RQ:
-
Respiratory quotient
References
Japan Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare. Basic directionality of the illness measures that focused its attention on a lifestyle (Verdict of the concrete opinion) (1996). http://www.mhlw.go.jp/index.shtml. (in Japanese).
Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy: Infant lifestyle-related disease (geriatric-type disease of children). http://www.med.u-toyama.ac.jp/healpro/meeting.
Bouchard, C.: Physical activity and obesity, pp. 1–389. Human Kinetic Publishers Inc., Windsor (2000)
Galgani, J., Ravussin, E.: Review: energy metabolism, fuel selection and body weight regulation. Int. J. Obesity 2, S109–S119 (2008)
Fujioka, K., et al.: The Sibutramine/Diabetes clinical S group: weight loss with sibutramine improves glycaemic control and other metabolic parameters in obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diab. Obesity Metab. 2(3), 175–187 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1463-1326.2000.00081.x
Whyte, H.M., Phil, D.: Blood pressure and obesity. Circulation XIX, 511–516. (1959)
Carr, M.C., Brunzell, J.D.: Abdominal obesity and dyslipidemia in the Metabolic Syndrome: Importance of Type 2 Diabetes and Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia in Coronary Artery Disease Risk. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 89, 2601–2607 (2004)
Yusuf, S., et al.: Obesity and the risk of myocardial infarction in 27 000 participants from 52 countries: a case-control study. The Lancet 366(9497), 1640–1649 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67663-5
Aoyagi, K., Kusano, Y., Takamura, N., Abe, Y., Osaki, M., Une, H.: Obesity and cardiovascular risk factors among men and women aged 40 years and older in a rural area of Japan. J Physiol. Anthropol. 25, 371–375 (2006)
Xiaodong, Y., Shujuan, W., Yaru, X., Jing, L.: A clinical follow-up study on the risk of cerebral infarction in Chinese aging overweight and obese population. Obes. Res. Clin. Pract. 5, e1–e78 (2011)
Rogge, M.M.: The role of impaired mitochondrial lipid oxidation in obesity. Biol. Res. Nursing 10, 356–373 (2009)
Mersy, D.J.: Health benefits of aerobic exercise. Postgrad. Med. 90, 103–110 (1991)
Ootani, K., Hashimoto, S., Hayashi, S., Kimura, T., Naito, M.: Effects of aerobic exercise training on lipoprotein metabolism and antioxidant status in sedentary but otherwise healthy young women. J. Integr. Study Diet. Hab. 22(2), 114–120 (2011). https://doi.org/10.2740/jisdh.22.114
Carstens, M.T., et al.: Fasting substrate oxidation in relation to habitual dietary fat intake and insulin resistance in nondiabetic women: a case for metabolic flexibility? Nutr. Metab. 10, 8 (2013)
Mitsuno, T., Hibino, A.: Which support pants are the most effective for burning body fat? J. Fiber Bioeng. Inform. 9, 1–13 (2016)
American college of sport medicine, ACSM-Certified Personal Trainer SM: The Heart Rate Debate. http://www.acsm.org/public-information/articles/2016/10/07/the-heart-rate-debate.
Mitsuno, T., Nagayasu, M., Shinohara, Y., Maruyama, Y.A.: Most effective exercise load for burning body fat with aerobic exercise in young Japanese women. Adv. Intel. Syst. Comput. 509, 205–215 (2017)
Mitsuno, T., Shinohara, Y.: Most effective enforced exercise time for aerobic exercise to burn body fat. Adv. Intel. Syst. Comput. 779, 139–148 (2018)
Bois, D.D.: Clinical calorimetry: thirty-fifth paper: a graphic representation of the respiratory quotient and the percentage of calories from protein fat and carbohydrate. J. Biol. Chem. 59, 43–49 (1924)
Lusk, G.: Animal calorimetry. J. Biol. Chem. 59(1), 41–42 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9258(18)85293-0
Acknowledgements
Part of this work was supported by Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant Number 17H01954 and 19H01616. We thank Edanz Group (https://en-author-services.edanzgroup.com/) for editing a draft of this manuscript.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Mitsuno, T., Yoshida, A., Watanabe, S. (2021). Effect of Leg Support on Body Fat Reduction: A Pilot Study on an Older Woman Undertaking Aerobic Exercise. In: Shin, C.S., Di Bucchianico, G., Fukuda, S., Ghim , YG., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 260. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80829-7_77
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80829-7_77
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-80828-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-80829-7
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)