EasyRhino, where in the article does it say anything about test subjects who lifted weights? Some guy makes an off-hand comment but has no test results that back it up. They only tested cyclists and cardio.
This was discussed on another thread recently. It seems the MSNBC report it being taken out of context. They are talking about steady-state cardio not being the metabolism booster. The only people who believed it did are the health-clubbers with their magazines on the treadmill. There are those that have been talking about raising metabolism through certain types of weight lifting programs, like Alwyn Cosgrove and Chad Waterbury, saying that steady-state cardio does not raise metabolism, and is one of the least efficient methodsof fat loss when compared to several other methods. This article does not refute what they are saying.
"I just read that MSNBC article about the metabolism effects..... interestingly it appears the researchers just studied people doing steady-state cardio (cycling with low intensity and higher intensity), which both NROL and C.Waterbury both say is not going to raise EPOC or metabolism. So in that regard the research supports what they are saying.
Then one of the interviewees mentions weightlifting and myths surrounding it, although they apparently didn't even test subjects who weight lifted, right? So the research doesn't investigate full-body workouts with weights, and it doesn't research the HIT interval type training as far as EPOC or metabolism is concerned. So in other words, it doesn't really say anything new that disputes NROL? Did I overlook something? NROL mentions research that does specifically discuss metabolism after intense full-body lifting and interval training.
Check out the 4th paragraph under "experts flabbergasted"...It says they "would not rule out the longer term fat 'afterburn' with different kinds of exercising or harder types." Nothing new here.
Articles like these, where people just take away sound-bytes without reading them closely, really tick me off. There are probably a lot of obese couch potatoes who will now think that exercising isn't all it is supposed to be, and they'll instead keep buying these Grapefruit potions and ab-twister machines and "Rapid loss" videos."
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