ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Exercise Fat Oxidation Is Positively Associated with Body Fatness in Men with Obesity: Defying the Metabolic Flexibility Paradigm.
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- Toward Exercise Guidelines for Optimizing Fat Oxidation During Exercise in Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Pooled it
- Absolute Aerobic Capacity Predominates over Body Composition and Regional Anthropometry in Explaining Maximal Fat Oxidation in National-Team Collegiate Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- The Influence of Body Fat Percentage on Physiological Responses and Performance in Professional Soccer Players During a Soccer Game Simulation Protocol on a Treadmill.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Vagal Activity and Fat Oxidation Basal Correlates in Older Active Postmenopausal Women: A Cross-Sectional Study.Sports medicine - open · 2026Article
- Comment on: Exercise Testing for Metabolic Flexibility: Time for Protocol Standardization.Sports medicine - open · 2025Article
- Response to "Comment on "Exercise Testing for Metabolic Flexibility: Time for Protocol Standardization".Sports medicine - open · 2025Article
- Methodological issues related to maximal fat oxidation and FATmax reproducibility: a narrative review.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Review
- Exercise Testing for Metabolic Flexibility: Time for Protocol Standardization.Sports medicine - open · 2025Article
- Chronic high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training are both effective in increasing maximum fat oxidation during exercise in overweight and obese adults: A meta-analysis.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2023Review
- Biomarkers and genetic polymorphisms associated with maximal fat oxidation during physical exercise: implications for metabolic health and sports performance.European journal of applied physiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Obesity is thought to be associated with a reduced capacity to increase fat oxidation in response to physical exercise; however, scientific evidence supporting this paradigm remains scarce. This study aimed to determine the interrelationship of different submaximal exercise metabolic flexibility (Metflex) markers and define its association with body fatness on subjects with obesity. Twenty-one male subjects with obesity performed a graded-intensity exercise protocol (Test 1) during which cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), maximal fat oxidation (MFO) and its corresponding exercise intensity (FATmax) were recorded. A week afterward, each subject performed a 60-min walk (treadmill) at FATmax (Test 2), and the resulting fat oxidation area under the curve (TFO) and maximum respiratory exchange ratio (RER
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