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'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Re: 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Post by T3OU-736 »

karmakaze wrote: post #156
canucker2016 wrote: post #126

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But sedentary people are the target audience for this exercise. Athletes worry about having enough energy during their exercise. When many people in developed countries are obese or overweight, every technique helps, especially something for those who don't like to sweat...

> Athletes worry about having enough energy during their exercise. Ironically, I'm a sedentary person who doesn't have enough energy to do 10 stations at the gym. If I do back & legs I'm pretty much done for the day. While I was reading the article, I realized that my need for optimizing for efficient blood sugar use is different than the many who would rather waste it.

10 stations seems... excessive.

(If your goal for exercises is physical therapy or bodybuilding, ignore the rest of this)

If a given "station" is what I picture it to be, it is likely a station for training a muscle in isolation. example: a station called "preacher's bench" for "bicep curls",l.

Consider that isolation exercise is, broadly, really useful for two circumstances: bodybuilding, and physical therapy.

For functional fitness, it is exceedingly rare that the an individual muscle would be the only muscle group engaged.

So, instead, I would strongly argue that free weights (dumbells, barbells) and the compound (multi-muscle) movements are a better use of time and energy at the gym. https://aasgaardco.com/store/books-posters-dvd/books/startin... and https://aasgaardco.com/store/books-posters-dvd/books/practic... are a good starting point.

Also Strength Training Anatomy - 3rd Edition by Frederic Delavier - helpful as a reference which stations engage what muscles.

Re: 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Post by aatd86 »

digdugdirk wrote: post #71

There are a lot of callouts of "This is BS" in regards to this article. Look at it from a different perspective. I would HIGHLY prefer this to a short press release blurb that allows pop-science clickbait aggregators (or even worse, the "science" sections of CBS/CNN and the like) to have first crack at it. This was produced by the university themselves, and provides a concise yet accurate and detailed overview of the…

Shhh... This is a way to people to stop skipping training their calves.

It's funny how they call it a soleus pushup but this is the basic movement called seated calf raise.

Re: 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Post by kiba »

jaggs wrote: post #178
cowmoo728 wrote: post #97

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All muscles are capable of metabolizing fat. In cycling (and other endurance sports), one of the adaptations observed in top athletes is that their muscles become highly efficient at metabolizing fat during medium-intensity exercise. A professional endurance athlete will metabolize about 70% fat, 30% carbs for the majority of a multi-hour event. This preserves their muscle glycogen for the high-intensity bits where t…

"Sedentary overweight people tend to become very inefficient at metabolizing fat. At anything higher than a slow walking pace, for example, they will begin the cutover to glycogen and turn down fat metabolism." Hm...very interesting. So is there an ideal protocol for fat mobilization in sedentary people? Asking for a friend.

From what I read, lot and lot of zone 2 training.

Re: 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Post by jonnycomputer »

cardosof wrote: post #9

So if I activate this tiny muscle in my calf for a while my metabolism will be up for hours? And where all that added energy will go? I don't know a thing in this area but I know that when something looks too good to be true, it probably isn't.

Info is in paper and supplementals, but in short, the protocol was that participants did the spu's for either 130 or 270 minutes each day, with 50 contractions a minute. It's a work out.

Re: 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Post by jonnycomputer »

The paper says the testing protocol was 50 contractions per minute for 130/270 minutes sessions per day.

Not nothing.

But something that you may integrate into your desk sitting for the day (I'd assume some benefit to even less activity, e.g. 1/2 hour sessions).

Re: 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Post by eagsalazar2 »

throw101010 wrote: post #139
tylervigen wrote: post #137

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Right but the point is that there may be nothing special about this particular exercise. It’s a bit complicated to get the equipment and training to learn how to do this; maybe that effort is better allocated to just encouraging people to get up and go for a walk every once in a while.

> maybe that effort is better allocated to just encouraging people to get up and go for a walk every once in a while. This method has been used for decades and the results on the obesity rates do not seem to be very good so far. Maybe it's time to try other approaches.

The failure is a failure of adherence which is always the root issue with obesity. Walking probably actually does work well too. The relevant question is "which one are people more likely to actually do?" And this does seem promising in that regard.

Re: 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Post by collegeburner »

tylervigen wrote: post #137
canucker2016 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But sedentary people are the target audience for this exercise. Athletes worry about having enough energy during their exercise. When many people in developed countries are obese or overweight, every technique helps, especially something for those who don't like to sweat...

Right but the point is that there may be nothing special about this particular exercise. It’s a bit complicated to get the equipment and training to learn how to do this; maybe that effort is better allocated to just encouraging people to get up and go for a walk every once in a while.

walks don't burn that many calories man. America has a calories-in problem not a calories-out one anyway.

Re: 'Soleus pushup' fuels metabolism for hours while sitting

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Post by jaggs »

kiba wrote: post #185
jaggs wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Sedentary overweight people tend to become very inefficient at metabolizing fat. At anything higher than a slow walking pace, for example, they will begin the cutover to glycogen and turn down fat metabolism." Hm...very interesting. So is there an ideal protocol for fat mobilization in sedentary people? Asking for a friend.

From what I read, lot and lot of zone 2 training.

Ahh, thanks. Now off to research. For my friend.
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