As of 2020, obesity has become a worldwide crisis and the rate of obesity in China has exceeded 50%, there’s no doubt obesity has become a major problem that plagues the healthy development of China's economy and the well-being and health of national life. Not only exercise is a good doctor, but also to solve the problem of obesity efficient means. In order to reduce the obesity rate, we have taken many exercise methods, such as resistance exercise, aerobic exercise, special exercise, but most of them have the problems of inability to adhere to and inefficiency. At this time, fasting aerobic as a new method of weight loss came into the forefront, a large number of experimental studies have been conducted on fasting aerobic abroad, and thanks to the points that have been found, fasting aerobic has been used as an effective method to cope with cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases and obesity abroad. On the basis of a thorough reading of domestic and international literature, the authors summarize the existing studies on fasting aerobics, hoping to point out the direction for subsequent research, so that everyone can fully understand the benefits of fasting aerobics and actively promote it.

Jiangan Lu, Yanlin Zhang. Advances in fasting aerobic exercise research. Frontiers in Educational Research (2022) Vol. 5, Issue 10: 85-94. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2022.051018.

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