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Mohammad Reza Fadaei chafy; Farhad Rahmani-Nia; Hamid Mohebbi; Saed Mohsen Maddah
Volume 4, Issue 1 , May 2014, Pages 1-14
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise on leptin and testosterone in obese boys’ serum at different pubertal stages. Method: The cross-sectional study had a pre-test- post-test design. The subjects included 36 obese boys aged 12 to 17 years, who according ...
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise on leptin and testosterone in obese boys’ serum at different pubertal stages. Method: The cross-sectional study had a pre-test- post-test design. The subjects included 36 obese boys aged 12 to 17 years, who according to the Tanner index, were in the stage of puberty of TS2 to TS5. The subjects were divided in to two groups, TS2, 3 (n=19, age: 13.4±0.94 years, Weight: 76.61±16.7 kg, BMI: 29.41±5.22 kg/m2) and TS4, 5 (n=17, age: 14.9±1.48 years, Weight: 93.57±16.48 kg, BMI: 30.92±3.88 kg/m2), each divided into aerobic exercise and control groups. After anthropometric measurements, fasting serum’s leptin and testosterone levels were measured. The aerobic exercise group completed 12 weeks of running, three times a week 30 minutes on average with an intensity of 60 to 85 percent of maximum heart rate. A pedometer was used to measure the level of physical activity and N4 software was used for measurement of energy intake. The statistical t-test, one-way and two-way ANOVA was used to analyze the data. Results: Lean body mass increased and body fat percent decreased significantly in aerobic exercise group at both stages of puberty (P≤0.05). In aerobic exercise group decrease in BMI and body fat, was only significant in TS4, 5 (P≤0.05). serum leptin levels decreased at different stages of puberty and was at only significant in aerobic exercise group (P≤0.05); but its changes in aerobic exercise and control groups at each stage of puberty wasn’t significant. Analysis of variance showed that puberty affects leptin changes (P≤0.05) but there was no significant difference between the effect of aerobic exercise on leptin decrease and changes in testosterone in both groups (TS4, 5 and TS2, 3 ) Conclusion: The results indicated that aerobic exercise in obese adolescent boys can lead to favorable changes in body composition, along with decreased serum’s leptin. However, part of these changes result from the normal maturation process that can lead to different responses to aerobic training, though due to the low number of subjects showing it about serum’s leptin, was not possible.
Research Paper I Open Access I Released under (CC BY-NC) license
Elaheh Talebi-Garakani; Sajad Aslani; Rozita Fathi; Alii Reza Safarzadeh; Fatemeh Roudbari
Volume 4, Issue 1 , May 2014, Pages 15-26
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Aim: Omentin-1 is an adipokine that is highly secreted in visceral adipose tissue compared to subcutaneous adipose tissue and increases insulin sensitivity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of 8-week resistance training on omentin-1¬ plasma levels in insulin resistant male ...
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Aim: Omentin-1 is an adipokine that is highly secreted in visceral adipose tissue compared to subcutaneous adipose tissue and increases insulin sensitivity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of 8-week resistance training on omentin-1¬ plasma levels in insulin resistant male rats. Method: Twenty-four Wistar male rats¬ with average weight¬ 161±23 gr were randomly divided into three groups: health control, insulin resistance control, insulin resistance training. After fructose-inducing insulin resistance to the two groups of insulin resistance control and insulin resistance training bleeding in all subjects was done then training group was exercised for 8 weeks (3d/wk). In the training protocol, a ladder was used on which rats carriedpen loads suspended from their tails. After the training session omentin-1, insulin, glucose, lipids profile plasma concentration and (HOMA-IR) index were measured. Results: The results of this study indicate that 8 weeks of resistance training can cause significant increase of omentin-1 and HDL-C plasma concentration in insulin resistance training group (P≤0.05) and insulin, glucose, cholesterol, LDL-C, TG plasma concentration and (HOMA-IR) index were decreased. Conclusion: This study indicates that resistance training increases omentin-1 plasma concentration in insulin resistance rats and improves lipids and metabolic profile.
Research Paper I Open Access I Released under (CC BY-NC) license
Ali Reza Safarzade; Fahimeh Shafiee; Elaheh Talebi-Garakani; Rozita Fathi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , May 2014, Pages 27-38
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise training on plasma vaspin concentration and insulin resistance index in sedentary overweight women. Methods: Twenty six sedentary overweight women (aged: 43.1 ± 12.6 year, weight: 73.4 ± 10.0 kg, BMI: 29.1 ...
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Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aerobic exercise training on plasma vaspin concentration and insulin resistance index in sedentary overweight women. Methods: Twenty six sedentary overweight women (aged: 43.1 ± 12.6 year, weight: 73.4 ± 10.0 kg, BMI: 29.1 ± 3.2 kg/m2) voluntarily participated in an 8-weeks aerobic exercise training program included running with 40- 80% reserve heart rate, 20- 45 min/day. Anthropometric and metabolic parameters in addition to plasma vaspin concentration were measured at baseline and after 8 weeks of the training program. To compare changes in variables according to body composition alterations, we divided the subjects into responders (defined as participants who lost ≥1% of baseline body fat percentage), and non-responders (defined as participants with no change or <1% reduction in body fat percentage). Results: After 8 weeks of aerobic exercise training we did not find any significant changes in plasma vaspin concentration. Nevertheless, body weight and body fat percentage decreased significantly (P≤0.05) and plasma vaspin concentrations increased significantly (P≤0.05) in responders, but not in non-responders. Changes in plasma vaspin concentrations were significantly correlated with changes in plasma insulin and glucose levels, and insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR) only in non-responders. Conclusions: This study indicated that reduction in body fat percentage induced by aerobic exercise training could be an effective factor to increase plasma vaspin levels in sedentary overweight women.
Research Paper I Open Access I Released under (CC BY-NC) license
Motahareh Hajati Modaraei; Mohammad Reza Kordi; Aabbas Ali Gaeini
Volume 4, Issue 1 , May 2014, Pages 39-48
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Aim: The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of high intensity interval training (HIIT) and aerobic training (AT) on PGC-1α gene expression in the soleus muscle of healthy adult male rats. Method: 18 Wistar male rats were divided into three groups: HIIT (n=6), AT (n=6) and the control ...
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Aim: The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of high intensity interval training (HIIT) and aerobic training (AT) on PGC-1α gene expression in the soleus muscle of healthy adult male rats. Method: 18 Wistar male rats were divided into three groups: HIIT (n=6), AT (n=6) and the control group (n=6). After 2 weeks of adaptation, the exercise protocol started and lasted for 8 weeks. The HIIT protocol was a 6 minute warm-up (50%-60% VO2max), 3 frequencies ( 4 minutes on 90%-100% VO2max and 2 minutes on 50%-60% VO2max) and 6 minutes of cooling down on 60-50% of VO2max and AT protocol was a 6 minute warm-up ( 50%-60% VO2max), main body which lasted for 30 minutes (70%-75% VO2max) and 6 minutes of cooling down ( 50%-60% VO2max). 24 hours after the last workout session, muscle samples were extracted and the expression level of the mentioned variable was measured by RT-PCR. Results: The results marked that PGC-1α gene expression was increased significantly (P≤0.05) after 8 weeks of HIIT and AT, and there were no remarkable differences between the types of exercise. Conclusion: Based on these findings, HIIT and AT have almost the same impact on increasing the muscle PGC-1α gene expression in rats’ soleus muscle.
Research Paper I Open Access I Released under (CC BY-NC) license
Merzad Moghadasi; Fariba Hosseini; Ehsan Bahrami Abdehgah; Najmeh Abdollahpur; Siyad Ali Hosseini
Volume 4, Issue 1 , May 2014, Pages 49-58
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Aim: Adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein (A-FABP) is a plasma biomarker recently associated with the obesity. Exercise training may reduce the adipose tissue, although it is not truly known whether exercise–induced change in adipose tissue, decreases A-FABP concentrations or not; therefore the ...
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Aim: Adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein (A-FABP) is a plasma biomarker recently associated with the obesity. Exercise training may reduce the adipose tissue, although it is not truly known whether exercise–induced change in adipose tissue, decreases A-FABP concentrations or not; therefore the aim of this study was to investigate A-FABP concentrations in middle-aged men after 8 weeks high intensity aerobic training.
Method: Twenty two sedentary obese middle-aged men (age: 46.4±2.3 years, body mass index (BMI): 32.8±2.0 kg/m2 and maximum oxygen uptake: 34.4±2.6 ml.kg-1.min-1; mean±SD) volunteered to participate in this study. The subjects were randomly assigned to the training group (n=11) or control group (n=11). The training group performed high intensity aerobic training 3 days a week for 8 weeks at an intensity corresponding to 75-80% individual maximum oxygen consumption for 45 min.
Results: The results showed that the BMI and body fat percentage were decreased in the training group compared to the control group (p<0.05). After 8 weeks of HIT, the training group resulted in a significant decrease (p<0.05) in the A-FABP and insulin resistance compared with the control group.
Conclusion: The results suggest aerobic training with the specific intensity and duration utilized in this study decreases A-FABP concentrations in obese middle-aged men.
Research Paper I Open Access I Released under (CC BY-NC) license
Vahid Sari-Sarraf; Ramin Amirsasan; Asghar Iranpour
Volume 4, Issue 1 , May 2014, Pages 59-68
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Aim: Sport supplementation is aconventionalmethod to prevent of dehydrationand body energystoresdepletion in graded long-term exercise.Acute carbohydrate and L–carnitine supplementation probably effect time to exhaustion and heart rate variablility during recovery from gradedexercise in male college ...
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Aim: Sport supplementation is aconventionalmethod to prevent of dehydrationand body energystoresdepletion in graded long-term exercise.Acute carbohydrate and L–carnitine supplementation probably effect time to exhaustion and heart rate variablility during recovery from gradedexercise in male college athletes. Method: Fourty male college athletes were randomly recruitedforthis study, and divided into 4 groups (control, carbohydrate, L-carnitine and carbohydrate/L-carnitinesupplementation) and ingested 500 cc supplements, 3 hours before exhaustive exercise. Times to exhaustion, heart rate variability in recovery and ratingof perceived exertion were recorded and analysed. One-way ANOVA was used to analyze exhaustion and variance analysis (4 × 2) for changes in heart rate recovery period. Results: Acute carbohydrate supplementation (P≤0.05) had significant effect on time to exhaustion compared to L-carnitine. However, acute supplementation of carbohydrate and L-carnitine combination had a agreater effect on time to exhaustion (P≤0.05). Mean while, separate and combined supplementationhad no significant effects on recovery heart rate variability and rating of perceived exertion. Conclusion: Probably, use of combined carbohydrate and L-carnitine supplementation should be better than seperate carbohydrate or L-carnitine in graded long- term exercise.
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Nahid Bijeh; Saeed Ramezani; Babi San Askari; Asra Askari
Volume 4, Issue 1 , May 2014, Pages 69-80
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Aim: Recently, energy drink consumption by athletes has become increasingly popular. Athletes believe that energy drinks can be used to enhance their performance during training and competition due to their potentially ergogenic ingredients such as carbohydrates, caffeine, sodium and taurine, among others. ...
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Aim: Recently, energy drink consumption by athletes has become increasingly popular. Athletes believe that energy drinks can be used to enhance their performance during training and competition due to their potentially ergogenic ingredients such as carbohydrates, caffeine, sodium and taurine, among others. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the acute ingestion of a taurine and caffeine-containing drink on Wingate cycle performance and blood lactate levels in active men. Method: A sample of 19 active male students (age: 8/0±3/22years, height7/6±2/71: cm, weight: 4/5±9/175kg) from Mazandaran University were selected. This research was conducted on two separate sessions with four days rest in between. In the first session, all of the subjects participated in the Wingate test, after having a standard breakfast, and after the blood taking (before and 2 min after test) and hand muscle esterangth measurement. In the second session, subjects were randomly divided in three groups (taurine and caffeine-containing drink, placebo and no drink groups). Immediately after having breakfast (forty minutes prior to test beginning), each group received 6 ml/kg.bw of related beverages. Results: In the taurine and caffeine-containing drink group, minimum (p=0/017) and mean (p=0/029) power was increased and blood lactate before (p=0/357) and after (p=0/920) the test, was unchanged Conlusion: In conclusion a commercially-available taurine and caffeine-containing drink (Red Bull) enhances anaerobic power of active male.
