Cardio = Waste of time?

[spatts]

Oh yeah...it's a "team flipper" for sure. lol

JG1, I'd go by feel. If you hit a track, sprint until you have to stop, then walk until you can talk again, then sprint till you have to stop, and walk until you can talk again. I'd do maybe 20 mins of that. As you progress, you will find that the portion of that time tha you can sprint will increase. Then you can start adding in some fun stuff like jog-stride-sprints, parachute sprints, etc..

 

[jeremys]

some types of cardio are better than others

as spatts pointed out in other threads...compare a sprinter and a distance runner. who is leaner? who has more muscle?

 

[Nonerz]

I'll sit naked in my air conditioned room all day.

I second that!

 

[Bulldog_10]

Could you just post one of these studies? I'd love to read it.

Still waiting...

 

[SofaGeorge]

Still waiting...

You are going to be waiting a long time.

In order to get the references to the articles you are going to have to dig up a back issue of Pearson and Shaw's THE LIFE EXTENSION WEIGHTLOSS PROGRAM. It has been out of print since 1985... and I don't have a copy anymore.

Durk and Sandy were good friends of mine. They pioneered thermogenisis as a weight loss technique... and launched the first ephedrine product for weight loss.

I attended many of their lectures on the subject back in the '80s... and read the research articles (and their book) between '85 and '89.

It's ancient history... not a new topic. I'm not going to go digging for them.

Do a GOOGLE search if you want to try to find them. The search term will be "thermogenesis." I'm not sure what you will find.

 

[Bulldog_10]

You are going to be waiting a long time.

In order to get the references to the articles you are going to have to dig up a back issue of Pearson and Shaw's THE LIFE EXTENSION WEIGHTLOSS PROGRAM. It has been out of print since 1985... and I don't have a copy anymore.

Durk and Sandy were good friends of mine. They pioneered thermogenisis as a weight loss technique... and launched the first ephedrine product for weight loss.

I attended many of their lectures on the subject back in the '80s... and read the research articles (and their book) between '85 and '89.

It's ancient history... not a new topic. I'm not going to go digging for them.

Do a GOOGLE search if you want to try to find them. The search term will be "thermogenesis." I'm not sure what you will find.

I've been looking through a shitload of journal articles, old and new through the electronic indexes at my school. No sign of anything that says that you can burn more calories sitting in a cool room than when exercising.

I'll keep looking though.

 

[SofaGeorge]

I've been looking through a shitload of journal articles, old and new through the electronic indexes at my school. No sign of anything that says that you can burn more calories sitting in a cool room than when exercising.

I'll keep looking though.

Starting point will be to get a back issue of Durk and Sandy's book. They site all references.

You might also try doing a search in their old newsletters. www.lifeservices.com publishes their archives... but I'm not sure how far back it goes.

I put their theory to the test years ago... turned the AC down to freezing. It definitely seemed to help bodyfat loss.

Armand Tandy was one of the old time bodybuiding writers. He wrote one of the first articles about this back in the '60s. He lived on the beach in Santa Monica... then moved inland. It is always 20 degrees cooler on the beach. He found when he moved inland that he started to put on body fat. He moved back to the beach and got skinny again.

 

[Zander1983]

Your body burns more calories than its baseline level when trying to alter your body temperate in either extreme hot or cold environments.

 

[SofaGeorge]

Your body burns more calories than its baseline level when trying to alter your body temperate in either extreme hot or cold environments.

Hot too? I'd never read that. Can you site it?

I'd love it if that is true. I love saunas. (I started doing saunas whenever I could after reading about them as GH releasers.) They are a fun way to finish a work out. (Best part is at my gym nobody else uses the sauna so I have it to myself.)

 

[Zander1983]

Hot too? I'd never read that. Can you site it?

I'd love it if that is true. I love saunas. (I started doing saunas whenever I could after reading about them as GH releasers.) They are a fun way to finish a work out. (Best part is at my gym nobody else uses the sauna so I have it to myself.)

I have absolutely no idea where I read it originally, but I'll have a bit of a browse...

I didn't know sauna's helped GH release. But if they do, GH release does stimulate fat burning...