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Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by antonzabirko »

billmalarky wrote: post #102
exabrial wrote: post #91

I'm 7 pounds into the "Covid 15" despite daily exercise. I may give this a try and see if I see results

FWIW it will be easier to lower your caloric intake to align with the lower activity that is a result of lockdown lifestyle than it will be to boost activity to try to match pre-lockdown lifestyle. Weight control is practically entirely diet. Exercise achieves other health and lifestyle goals. Furthermore optimizing your diet during lockdown will pay dividends once you go back to a standard level of activity post-loc…

The thing is I want to eat. Not the op.

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by EForEndeavour »

huffmsa wrote: post #62
bradlys wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To me - it sounds like a great way to throw up or at least get stomach sickness. I can't imagine going full send with no warm up and not suffering some sort of issue after stopping.

Your warm-up accrues though. You're doing a little bit of exercise every 12 minutes for 8 hours. You're not going to get sick.

Nitpick: the 4-second sprints weren't evenly distributed into each hour. They were done in sets of 5 with 45-second rest periods between sets.

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by James_Henry »

zadjii wrote: post #106
Drakar1903 wrote: post #15

And here I thought this was about software development.

According to the [site guidelines]( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): > Hacker News Guidelines > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unle…

I think they were trying to make a joke about sprints and agile software development.

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

logfromblammo wrote: post #90
gdulli wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It must be one set of 5 reps per hour, not one sprint every 12 minutes. That's how exercise usually works, and the study is concerned with the "least amount of exercise that can acutely improve fat metabolism and other aspects of health". Activity spaced out every 12 minutes would be disruptive and defeat that purpose.

Article states 4s activity followed by 45s seated rest, repeated 5 times. So you're actually occupied with the workout task for 4m+05s every hour, even though only 20s of that is sprinting.

And it's not an activity you'll do at or near your desk, so you're going to have to travel somewhere to do it.

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by bagacrap »

tofflos wrote: post #13

> This study determined if the interruption of prolonged sitting (i.e.; 8-h of inactivity) with hourly cycling sprints of only 4-s duration each (i.e.; 4-s x 5 per h x 8-h = 160-s per day; SPRINTS) improves PPL. The 4-s sprints employed an inertial load ergometer and were followed by 45-s of seated rest. So you would need to take a 5 x (4-s sprint + 45-s rest) = 245 seconds exercise break from work every hour and in…

2500 calories is way over the average male rmr

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by jeena »

antonzabirko wrote: post #111
billmalarky wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW it will be easier to lower your caloric intake to align with the lower activity that is a result of lockdown lifestyle than it will be to boost activity to try to match pre-lockdown lifestyle. Weight control is practically entirely diet. Exercise achieves other health and lifestyle goals. Furthermore optimizing your diet during lockdown will pay dividends once you go back to a standard level of activity post-loc…

The thing is I want to eat. Not the op.

I had this problem too, I was able to solve it by replacing most of the carbs I ate with fat and protein. This led to stable insulin levels which led to ghrelin being only released during normal meal times which is nowadays only one for me around 11 am.

Not trying to say that Omad is for everyone but the reduction of carbs was the perfect key for handling my hunger attacks.

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by brewdad »

knicholes wrote: post #93
exabrial wrote: post #91

I'm 7 pounds into the "Covid 15" despite daily exercise. I may give this a try and see if I see results

Right before the pandemic, I entered a body composition challenge that just ended. I lost ten lbs of fat and gained one lb of muscle. Another guy lost 6 lbs of fat and gained 4 lbs of muscle. You can't trust your scale. Go by the scale in addition to how you look, how your clothes fit, and your body measurements. For better data, get a Dexa body scan.

True, but if my activity levels have dropped, I can be pretty sure my weight gain is almost entirely fat. Now that I've gotten back to being more active the past two weeks, I hope to see some results in the mirror before I worry too much about the number on the scale.

In my case, the scale number will regularly fluctuate a few pounds just based on time of day or short-term variations in activity and diet.

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by jnwatson »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #114
logfromblammo wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Article states 4s activity followed by 45s seated rest, repeated 5 times. So you're actually occupied with the workout task for 4m+05s every hour, even though only 20s of that is sprinting.

And it's not an activity you'll do at or near your desk, so you're going to have to travel somewhere to do it.

It depends on your desk.

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by lookdangerous »

Lewton wrote: post #107
Gys wrote: post #92

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Thank you, so that explains the 45-s rest mentioned. I assume then each 4-s workout is followed by a 45-s rest. So 49-s * 5 = 245-s (4 min) spend each hour on the excercises.

you have an off by one fencepost error ;) You only need to rest four times!

Fencepost error– great visual, thanks

Re: Hourly 4-second sprints prevent impairment of postprandial fat metabolism

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

jnwatson wrote: post #118
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it's not an activity you'll do at or near your desk, so you're going to have to travel somewhere to do it.

It depends on your desk.

True. And the location of said desk.
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