Spot versus generalized fat reduction during abdominal aerobic endurance training
In contrast to our hypothesis, the current study found that fat mass stored in the trunk decreased more in the AG than in the CG. In fact, intragroup analyses showed that trunk fat mass decreased by 1170 g (7%) in the AG, with no detectable change observed in the CG. To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to document that aerobic endurance exercise of the abdominal body segment leads to increased release and utilization of adipose tissue stored adjacent to the working muscles, rather than generalized whole‐body fat release.Our results contrast with previous observations by Ramirez‐Campillo et al. (Our findings also contrast with the seminal work by Noland and Kearney (Noland & Kearney, 