Obesity is reaching epidemic proportions and more effective treatments are required
to prevent the expansion of this disease. Treatments should focus on creating a
negative energy balance either via increasing energy expenditure or by decreasing
energy intake, or preferably both. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to
investigate whether resistance training can influence feeding behaviour as
determined by self-reported habitual macronutrient and energy intake. The effect of
eight weeks of resistance training (n = 13) on self-reported macronutrient and
energy intake was compared to a non-exercising control group (n = 13) in inactive
males using a computer-based software program. Similar to the non-exercising
control group, resistance training resulted in no significant (p > 0.05) changes in
the habitual intake of daily intake of total kilocalories, carbohydrates, proteins and
fats. In conclusion, eight weeks of resistance training is not an effective mode of
training to promote an improvement in macronutrient and energy intake and despite
studies demonstrating that exercise itself, in the absence of counseling, may affect
feeding behaviour, it may be that resistance training as a mode of training may not
be an effective mode of exercise to promote overall physical activity in an attempt to
modify the patterns of macronutrient and energy intake. As such, negative energy
balance would solely be due to the energy expenditure during this mode of exercise.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001194 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Shaw, BS, Shaw, I, Brown, GA |
| Publisher | South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Rights | South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation, |
| Relation | South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation, |
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