OT: The Thread About Nothing Part 188: The Ken Holland Edition

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yakitate304

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I'm not really lifting at all. I have a shoulder injury that needs surgery that I keep putting off. I've been seeing a physical therapist and doing some rotator cuff exercises with extremely light weights. I was supposed to have surgery in December but I nixed it.

Besides that I'm on the treadmill 45 minutes to an hour most days and I mountain bike some local trails twice a week usually.

I don't know if you're specifically looking to loose belly fat, but in general for pure fat loss, any sort of resistance training you can do is great. Cardio like running or biking is good for burning calories DURING the exercise, but it's not good at causing your body to burn more calories post-workout. It's a thing called "Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption" (EPOC). Basically, EPOC is about the amount of calories that your body burns in the X number of hours after your workout. Cardio will do a little bit but resistance training just about doubles it.

This isn't a great video but it's decent at explaining the concept.



Obviously you know your body and what you can/can't do, but if you can even do lower body and core resistance training you would do yourself a great favor in terms of burning calories and fat. Things like bodyweight squats, bodyweight lunges, calf raises, bicycle crunches, etc. will engage your muscles and cause more caloric burn than simply doing cardio. And if you can't do any sort of resistance, doing higher intensity cardio in intervals will also cause more overall caloric burn and provide better results.

There's a very popular trainer on Youtube named Mike Chang, aka "Sixpack Shortcuts" who has a training program based around the "Afterburn Effect" which is just EPOC. His program is basically common sense - healthy eating plus solid resistance training for the full body. Definitely not worth paying for (although you can find it on a certain bay of pirates).
 

Wingman77

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Not looking forward to when my metabolism slows down and I actually have to watch what I eat. I can still eat damn near whatever I want and not have it catch up to me as long as I go to the gym.

Regardless of your metabolism, you should still watch what you eat because the results you'll see at/from the gym have a good amount to do with what you eat

I had the same mindset for the longest time, but it actually is not the right one to have - I've cut out a lot of the ****** stuff I was eating, you can still eat a lot of what you want with it being healthy stuff

Being lean though does allow you to eat some ****** stuff because you gotta add some fat to turn into muscle
 

Saugus

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You guys wouldn't believe who I got to hangout with today at the Red bulls game
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Is he just as creepy in person?
 
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Regardless of your metabolism, you should still watch what you eat because the results you'll see at/from the gym have a good amount to do with what you eat

I had the same mindset for the longest time, but it actually is not the right one to have - I've cut out a lot of the ****** stuff I was eating, you can still eat a lot of what you want with it being healthy stuff

Being lean though does allow you to eat some ****** stuff because you gotta add some fat to turn into muscle

damn you were up pretty early today after Hoboken last night. Haha. Was a blast though...
 

CerebralGenesis

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I don't know if you're specifically looking to loose belly fat, but in general for pure fat loss, any sort of resistance training you can do is great. Cardio like running or biking is good for burning calories DURING the exercise, but it's not good at causing your body to burn more calories post-workout. It's a thing called "Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption" (EPOC). Basically, EPOC is about the amount of calories that your body burns in the X number of hours after your workout. Cardio will do a little bit but resistance training just about doubles it.

This isn't a great video but it's decent at explaining the concept.



Obviously you know your body and what you can/can't do, but if you can even do lower body and core resistance training you would do yourself a great favor in terms of burning calories and fat. Things like bodyweight squats, bodyweight lunges, calf raises, bicycle crunches, etc. will engage your muscles and cause more caloric burn than simply doing cardio. And if you can't do any sort of resistance, doing higher intensity cardio in intervals will also cause more overall caloric burn and provide better results.

There's a very popular trainer on Youtube named Mike Chang, aka "Sixpack Shortcuts" who has a training program based around the "Afterburn Effect" which is just EPOC. His program is basically common sense - healthy eating plus solid resistance training for the full body. Definitely not worth paying for (although you can find it on a certain bay of pirates).


Sounds amazing. I should look into that more. I've been runnings, swimming,lifting, and insanity workouts and am always looking for different things to mix it up and add some variety for the muscles. Resistance training you say...

Reese's eggs are so good

Dood. I've eaten so many of them the last few days. Not OK


And anyone see the Louisville kid break his leg in the bball game today? holy god...
 

JimEIV

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I don't know if you're specifically looking to loose belly fat, but in general for pure fat loss, any sort of resistance training you can do is great. Cardio like running or biking is good for burning calories DURING the exercise, but it's not good at causing your body to burn more calories post-workout. It's a thing called "Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption" (EPOC). Basically, EPOC is about the amount of calories that your body burns in the X number of hours after your workout. Cardio will do a little bit but resistance training just about doubles it.

This isn't a great video but it's decent at explaining the concept.



Obviously you know your body and what you can/can't do, but if you can even do lower body and core resistance training you would do yourself a great favor in terms of burning calories and fat. Things like bodyweight squats, bodyweight lunges, calf raises, bicycle crunches, etc. will engage your muscles and cause more caloric burn than simply doing cardio. And if you can't do any sort of resistance, doing higher intensity cardio in intervals will also cause more overall caloric burn and provide better results.

There's a very popular trainer on Youtube named Mike Chang, aka "Sixpack Shortcuts" who has a training program based around the "Afterburn Effect" which is just EPOC. His program is basically common sense - healthy eating plus solid resistance training for the full body. Definitely not worth paying for (although you can find it on a certain bay of pirates).


What is EarthFit? I get what he is saying but I don't get what the practical application is.
 
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