| Objective: To study the body composition and dietary status of the three male throwing-event athletes with excess body fat and use the traditional Chinese medicine which invigorates kidney to regulate hormone levels. The aim is to offer some comprehensive regulation suggestions for the throwing-event athletes with excess body fat to lose their weight and improve exercise ability. Method: Once a month in the morning during the winter training period, the method of multiple frequency biological impedance was adopted to obtain the body composition indicators of the empty-stomach subjects, i.e., BW, PBF, LBW, BMI and FFM/H. Some kidney-invigorating TCM was taken by the subjects for one month. The endocrine indicators of T & LH were tested each week to observe the effect of the kidney-invigorating TCM on hormone level regulation. Result: The body fat percentages of the three subjects, compared with those of the Greek athletes and the elite athletes of China, were apparently higher (26.4:18.9:16.09). The energy intake of the three meals revealed that the energy intake of the athletes’ breakfast and lunch did not meet the requirement (30% & 40%). As to the dinner, the excessive calorie intake and higher fat and protein intake were observed. After one month of taking kidney-invigorating TCM, the testosterone increased significantly while the levels of LH only changed a little. Conclusion: The body fat percentages of the subjects are too high and there is a need to decrease the body fat percentage through meal regulation. The kidney-invigorating TCM may help the male athletes with excess body fat and low testosterone to improve the T level, but up till now, no evidence of the TCM’s function of promoting fat decomposition has been found. |
