Aerobic exercise in adolescents with obesity: preliminary evaluation of a modular training program and the modified shuttle test

Table 1 Anthropometric characteristics and effect sizes of the aerobic training group at baseline and at the end of the 12-week training period

	Baseline	End of training	p-value	Effect size
Height cm	167.5 ± 0.07	168.1 ± 0.07	P < 0.001	--
Sds-height	0.20 ± 0.94	0.14 ± 0.94	P = 0.038	--
Body weight kg	103.7 ± 12.4	92.7 ± 11.0	P < 0.001	2.2
Sds-body weight	5.53 ± 1.62	4.21 ± 1.5	P < 0.001	1.3
BMI kg/m²	37.4 ± 3.5	32.7 ± 2.7	P < 0.001	1.9
Sds-BMI	3.2 ± 0.28	2.8 ± 0.37	P < 0.001	1.6
Total body fat (FM/TBW%)	43.4 ± 2.8	39.6 ± 2.4	P < 0.001	1.0
FFM	58.7 ± 7.0	55.9 ± 6.7	P = 0.002	1.3

Data are means ± SD. BMI: body mass index; sds: standard deviation score; FM: fat mass; FFM: fat-free mass; TBW: total body weight

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