摘要：The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of resistance training (RT) in rats with severe obesity. We examined the effects of 4 sessions•wk-1 for 4 wks of RT in Zucker rats with severe obesity. The animals were divided into 4 groups with 4 animals in each: sedentary lean (SEDL), RT lean (RT-L), sedentary obese (SED-O), and RT obese (RT-O). The RT attenuated body weight (BW) gain in obese rats (RT-O) compared to the sedentary obese rats (SED-O; P<0.05). The RT-L group increases MS (P<0.05), and there was a difference in gain with respect to RT-O group (P<0.05), which in trun, RT-O did not in crease MS (P>0.05). Both SED-O and RT-O groups have a larger deposit of epididymal and brown fat as compared to healthy rats eutrophic (SED-L and RT-L; P>0.05). The muscle weight is lower in obese rats compared to lean rats (P<0.05). The fasting blood glucose was higher in obese rats compared to lean rats (P<0.05), in turn, no difference was observed in cardiovascular parameters between groups (P>0.05). These data show that a short-term RT program attenuated BW gain in Zucker rats with severe obesity, but does not alter the changes generated by severe obesity.
关键词：Blood Glucose;Muscle Strength;Obesity;Resistance Training;Weight Gain
