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Originally Posted by NACHO
It came as a shock to me to too but here is the bottom line:
Most people can't speed up thier metabolism.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30826120...playmode/1098/
It's not a long term solution but I'm going on a crash diet so I can loose the weight (fat) and start bulking (gaining muscle) ASAP. |
Well, the article you posted piqued my curiosity so I had to check it out:
"
Experts ‘flabbergasted’
In their own research, Melanson and his team studied moderately active people who, on separate days,
performed low-intensity or high-intensity cycling, or no structured exercise at all. They repeated their experiment with
endurance athletes (competitive runners and triathletes), while comparing sedentary obese people with sedentary lean people, and then again while comparing older men with younger men."
So it looks like they just studied the effects of
cardio, not strength training...
"But both Melanson and Endress say it can’t be ruled out that longer, harder and possibly different types of exercise performed regularly on consecutive days could lead to a more lasting post-workout fat burn. In Melanson’s research, for instance, participants all cycled for under an hour, burning up to 400 calories."
Exactly.
"The new paper offers additional evidence that exercise does not boost metabolism as much as widely believed, Endress says. In addition to the misperception that exercise greatly hikes fat burning after exercise, there is also the false belief that weight training dramatically increases metabolism by adding muscle, he notes.
While it’s true that a pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat — about seven to 10 calories a day versus two calories — most people don’t put on enough muscle to make much of a difference, Endress says."
This is a weak argument. "The false belief that weight training dramatically increases metabolism by adding muscle"? Notice that they're not saying that it
doesn't? Just that "most people don't put on enough muscle to make much of a difference"? Most people don't train with heavy weights.
" 'Building muscle is very difficult for most individuals because it
requires heavy weight workouts and a higher intake of calories,' he says. “Average fitness enthusiasts [who are working out to gain muscle] will only add four to five pounds of lean mass,” he says, and burn an additional 28 to 50 calories a day. (Men tend to gain more muscle, on average, than women.)"
Heavy weights. That's what we're here for.
I'm not trying to pick on you. I agree with the posters who say you should stick it out. It just bothers me greatly when people think you need to starve to lose weight. Exercise works. Give it a chance.