Effect of Ethnicity on Changes in Fat and Carbohydrate Oxidation in Response to Short-Term High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT): A Pilot Study

Todd A. Astorino and Jamie L. De Revere
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Todd A. Astorino: Department of Kinesiology, California State University San Marcos, San Marcos, CA 92096-0001, USA
Jamie L. De Revere: Department of Kinesiology, California State University San Marcos, San Marcos, CA 92096-0001, USA

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-13

Abstract: This study compared changes in substrate metabolism with high intensity interval training (HIIT) in women of different ethnicities. Twelve Caucasian (C) and ten Hispanic women (H) (age = 24 ± 5 yr) who were inactive completed nine sessions of HIIT at 85 percent peak power output (%PPO). Pre-training, changes in fat oxidation (FOx) and carbohydrate oxidation (CHOOx) during progressive cycling were measured on two days to compute the minimum difference (MD). This test was repeated after the last training session. Between baseline tests, estimates of FOx and CHOOx were not different ( p > 0.05) and were highly related (intraclass correlation coefficient equal to 0.72 to 0.88), although the coefficient of variation of maximal fat oxidation (MFO) was equal to 30%. Training significantly increased MFO ( p = 0.03) in C (0.19 ± 0.06 g/min to 0.21 ± 0.06 g/min, d = 0.66) and H (0.16 ± 0.03 g/min to 0.19 ± 0.03 g/min, d = 1.3) that was similar ( p = 0.92) between groups. There was a significant interaction for FOx ( p = 0.003) as it was only increased in H versus C, although both groups exhibited reduced CHO oxidation ( p = 0.002) with training. Use of MD revealed that only 3 of 22 women show meaningful increases in MFO (>0.08 g/min). The preliminary data reveals that a small dose of low-volume HIIT does not alter fat and CHO oxidation and there is little effect of ethnicity on the response to training.

Keywords: interval training; fat metabolism; blood lactate concentration; ethnicity; minimum difference; individual responsiveness to training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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