OBoile

The post-exercise calorie burn from anaerobic activity isn't very significant.

AlmostTrick

Sounds good! But you forgot to tell us how much you can bench.

livedarklions

Bench? I don't bench! I do all my lifts standing on the back of a bucking horse. And eleventy seven pounds.

Seriously, I don't do that much weight lifting. I do twenty reps with each arm lifting a 45 pound dumbbell up over my head three times a week. Weightlifting is about my least favorite part of the routin, sos I can't stands no more.
In fairness, he did ask me about what I did yesterday!

Machka 

Walking To Date
2019 - 213.91 km
2018 - 328.5 km
2017 - 312.75 km
2016 - 195.05 km
2015 - 181.36 km


Starting to pick up the pace a bit with the walking ... back at uni!

BTW 213.91 km is about 280,721.78 steps. Not too bad for someone who has a back & hip injury ... and who had the flu recently.
Kilometers to Steps | Kyle's Converter

livedarklions

Not going to spend much time digging up links, but my impression is that recent research indicates that you're right, that the post-exercise burn is mostly myth. I think anaerobic is good for regulating the ratio of muscle to fat, which has real implications for insulin resistance beyond just looking better. Also, it may be good for fighting calcium loss in bones.

The caveat, though, is that if you overdo it or perform the exercises wrong, it's also a really easy way to injure oneself.

Lemond1985

I would think that the elevated heart rate that results from a really intense workout the previous day, would cause some calorie burn. I know it really gets my food appetite going.

livedarklions

I'm a bit underwhelmed by the scientific state of knowledge on the differences in benefits, so I figure the best strategy for me is to do at least a bit of both of them.

It's still unclear what biological mechanism actually triggers hypertrophy--if they can't answer that yet, I suspect much of the picture is rather incomplete.

OBoile

Agreed. In general, I think the typical person (so not someone training to be elite in a specific discipline) tends to do better with a variety of exercise types and intensities. Each offers unique benefits.

OBoile

IIRC it does cause some, but not as much as many people seem to think. I haven't gone back to look, but (again IIRC) if you do, say, a HIIT workout that burns 500 calories, you might burn another 30-50 post exercise. It's something, but not the kind of thing that will make or break your weight loss goals. Some people seem to think you'll burn another 500 calories, but that isn't the case. It does, of course, have other health and fitness benefits.

KraneXL

"When you strength train, you’re actually breaking down the muscles in your body. Strength training, be it with weights or bodyweight movements, recruit tons of muscles and cause you to burn significant calories during your workout.

Now, after you finish training, after you go back home and sit on your couch and catch up on Netflix, your body’s metabolism continues to operate at a heightened pace as you rebuild your muscles stronger than before. This can continue for upwards of 36 hours after you finish training." WIN.

How each individual interprets the above excerpt is up to them. But the strategy works well enough for me and many others, and I stick by it. Strength training makes you stronger with the added benefit of changing the way you look. Your diet is key, but a combination of training methods works best.

NoWhammies

What can I say about weight loss? In the summer when I'm riding 4 or 5 times a week, I to lose weight. In the winter months when my activity is less, my weight goes up.

This winter I decided to cut back in your face sugars (like cookies, cake, etc) and cut out beer during the week. I also increased my time in the gym. The benefit seems to be that I've lost the winter weight I gained.

Anyway. Just my $0.05 for the thread. Cheers.

livedarklions

How I interpret that is that you just posted an excerpt from a sales pitch for something called nerdfitness.com.

We're not disagreeing about mixing it up, but why the heck would I rely on someone trying to sell me a course for my scientific info? A bunch of the stuff in there is just plain awful--aerobic is far more effective at burning calories, and that breakdown of muscle being necessary to encourage muscle strengthening has really been debunked in recent years. Tissue damage correlates with hypertrophy, but it's not a causation relationship. People who strengthen muscle through use sometimes overdo it, causing muscle damage. You will get the hypertrophy with or without the damage.

KraneXL

I've never posted sales pitches. I only post what I've observed in others and/or experience myself and know that it works. The previous post was to support that I don't just make these things up.

These are ideas and methods already established and used by others that I researched and tried myself. And since total strangers regularly ask me about my methods, I will share my findings whenever I can to anyone who is interested. If anyone wants to ask questions about the details I will answer. But nothing otherwise beyond this.

I've also lived long enough to know that there are many things that exist in nature and work, that is not explainable by science. We still have a long way to go, and a lot to learn about how stuff works.

livedarklions

The support you posted was a sales pitch. If you're doing "research", you should probably learn how to spot that. You can pretty well discount entirely the information you find on such sites because pretending they have access to certainty beyond that justified by science is exactly what they're selling. Frankly, it isn't just that you posted a questionable source, it's also that the stuff you quoted verged on total nonsense and contained "facts" that just aren't true.

I too have people ask me for advice based on the results I'm getting, but I know enough to be extremely cautious giving it because what works for me can be an absolute disaster for someone else.

Metieval

just an observation on weight loss and cycling, grocery shopping and people..................

I see a lot of older gentlemen riding bicycles with guts, a lot of gut! I also know most of them Ride, and then do the post ride eat/drink celebration reward then go to bed after that evening.

I also see people of all sizes at the grocery store, there is probably a high possibility that they don't ride bicycles. No offense intended so I'll just be blunt. Fat people have trash/processed foods in their grocery carts, and slim people have real food/raw foods in their carts. ( just simple observable facts)

so in my observation, food is 95% of weight, and exercise is for fitness. I'll also venture to suggest that being overweight is eating habits. Hence, the Wed night ride group being mostly over weight Middle aged (and older) men that are not getting skinner but fatter over the years. at this point I am guessing the Wednesday group rides isn't about cycling, but just an excuse to go eat and get tanked.

livedarklions

Getting fatter over the years is the natural tendency if your food intake is kept relatively constant because a person's metabolism slows down in middle age and beyond. There's really no way you could tell whether or not the big bellied guys you're describing wouldn't have much larger guts if they didn't bike.

I'm thinking that the balance between diet and exercise as weight control varies a lot from person to person, and exercise is really very good for affecting A1C. The other thing is exercise can also allow you to carry a few "extra" pounds in the form of muscle.
I do know people who get fatter buying all sorts of healthy food at the grocery. The stuff rots in their fridge while they really get their meals from take out.
BTW, I suspect the rise of all these food delivery services is about to make the obesity rate even worse. You can now have 3 meals a day delivered.

Metieval

you didn't hear what I said so let me say it again....

If they drank less beer, and ate less processed eat out food ( fried/french fries etc...) they would be smaller PERIOD!
Bicycling, age, and metabolism is irrelevant.

I am pretty sure that we all know that "weight" in this thread doesn't refer to weight on a scale but weight as in Fat, pudgy, obese, out-a-shape, beer gut, carb gut,

I guess the first step towards discussing being over weight, might be 'a honest' discussion?

as in yeah anyone can be fat eating 'good foods' if they practice gluttony. I'll argue that most people that have the self control to eat healthy also have the self control to not over indulge.

Metieval

Bottom line, if people want to get serious about losing weight (SIZE) , loosing BFI, and getting ripped/cut.....

It won't be from cycling, it will be from diet/fasting. Diet being Lifestyle changes, not something someone does for a summer to only reverse over winter.

livedarklions

Age is irrelevant? Physical activity is irrelevant? Metabolism is irrelevant? Those are just ignorant ranting points.

I've noticed that whenever someone uses the phrase "honest discussion", it usually accompanies a simplistic trashing of fat people, and someone acting as if they know more than they do.

I'd argue that the big change I've witnessed in my lifetime is not that people tend to get fatter as they get older (always been true), it's that they are much heavier as kids and then have to figure out how to reverse that as adults.

I'm guessing from your post that you are a fairly young person. One of the things you find out as you age is an eating habit that works for you as a young person can become a disaster as your metabolism slows with age. Obviously, the only plausible ways to address this are either reduce the intake or increase the metabolism through exercise. All I'm saying is that the right balance of these factors is going to vary from person to person, and your "it's all food and gluttony" approach is simplistic, and your guesses about the eating habits of people you see are just that--guesses.

People have been doing this self-control rant for decades now, yet the problem just keeps getting more common. It's a whole hell of a lot more complicated than that. My rotting grocery example and your after-workout junk food/beer binge are pretty good examples of one of the things that complicate this--our minds play tricks on us that make us think we are making healthy choices when we are not.

And before you start in on calling me a snowflake or something, you should probably know that I have lost and kept off 140+ pounds without surgery a few years ago (in my early-mid 50s), and have gone from XXL to S. My doctor tells me he has never seen anyone else do that without surgery and he has a lot of patients.

Metieval

yeah lack of self control is a HUGE problem, and it really isn't complicated either.


It is as simple as stop eating! Just because your brain tells you to eat doesn't mean you need to eat. See self-control. Do some fasting, break the food addiction, and THEN you will UNDERSTAND.

as for heart health 15 minutes of HIIT daily is enough. No reason to bicycle for hours to lose weight......... Just stop eating so much.

Metieval

put those terms back into the CONTEXT that they were written in, and you'll understand why they were not relative to the point I made.

I mean if you want to continue to take my post out of context then we don't have an honest discussion and can't continue.

Lemond1985

Sadly, this post would be considered "fat shaming" to some. Oh well, facts can be really hurtful sometimes, but it's one of the pitfalls of engaging in victimology, with regard to people's expectations about how much they think they need to eat, vs. how much they "should" weigh as a result.

Human biology can be so unfair!

Metieval

My post truly isn't meant as fat shaming.

It is just an approach that needs to be hammered in my opinion. Serving size, meals, etc..... all needs to be tossed and forgotten. However , we live in a world that eats for social reasons..... talk about screwed up.

3 meals a day
try 1 meal, or 1 meal every 3 days.

the worse advice out there is telling people to eat 5 meals a day. we are not cows, we don't graze. those who do graze often look like the cattle that graze... they fatten up. We are hunter/gathers and our bodies are designed to eat /store/fast

Lemond1985

And those who follow the USDA "Food Pyramid" often wind up with a physique that somewhat resembles a pyramid. Hey, you're preachin' to the choir here.

As someone said earlier in this thread "The human body is not a perpetual motion machine". Too hateful a comment, I guess.

Metieval

well I can't control time, getting old is inevitable and sucks

but I can control sun exposure, eye protection, hearing protection, and what I eat, when I eat & how much I eat among many other things...... in my life