Franchise weighing in 7/14 7am

what I'm saying is coming from recent studies. Lately, the fitness world has homed in on a substance called coritisol. Cortisol is a major steroid hormone that is released from the adrenal glands. High cortisol levels have been shown to reduce your ability to burn fat and build muscle.

I've never heard of the chemical that makes your burn twice as many calories. The way I've understood morning cardio is that your body has come off an 8 hour fast (sleeping) and if you do your cardio without eating of drinking a liquid with carbs, you'll burn all fat.

Problem is, without eating anything there is nothing to reduce the cortisol level. Insulin reduces cortisol but you therefore have to ingest some carbs.

I may have misunderstood franchise....I don't know if he was doing this on an empty stomach or not Morning workouts are fine (I recently tried it and love working out in the mornings for several reasons)

It all gets back to what Meow said about HIIT (high intensity interval training). Recent research has shown time and time again that it is not what kind of tissue that your burn while doing cardio that is important... but rather the amount of total calories you burn (thus creating calorie deficit) and the rise in baseline metabolism you get from the cardio.

Another misconception is this "fat burning" zone of staying at low intensity while doing cardio crap so you "just burn the fat". HIIT Cardio (at least any type of good cardio) requires quite a bit of anoerobic metabolism... meaning glycolysis to produce atp. If there is not ample glycogen in the cell or carbs in the bloodstream then guess where the body will go to get carbs... it will oxidize amino acids and turn them into carbs for energy (and yes this means your muscle tissue).

I know what your all thinking... duh... just do lower intensity well this has been studied as well...

in one study they used 2 groups. One group performed 12 minutes of high intensity interval training (periods of 90% of maximal heart rate between periods of lower heart rate)

group 2 performed 30 minutes of cardio at 75% of maximum heart rate.

Results

group 2 burned more total calories, however group one lost more fat than group one. So what does all that mean?

not only is high intensity cardio more efficient at burning fat... it is better at sparing muscle since it burned less cals but shed more fat. In addition high intensity cardio kept metabolism raised for over 24 hours while the moderate intensity did not raise metabolism for any appreciable amount of time.

 

Day 10:

I was on a very strict diet still all this week, never went out of bounds, worked out 4 days, and now im at:

250.

10 more lbs.

 

You lost 20 lbs in 10 days? Wow, I'm impressed! Good job

 

ya, im ded serious on not bein' fat anymore....i hate it.

strict diet, xenadrine, and cardio everyday. now i slow down, i bet i stay at 250 for a couple more weeks.

 

Ahh the Xenadrine...completely forgot you were taking this (and no, I haven't forgotten to send mine to you, I'll probably get it in the mail today or tomorrow )

And I haven't seen many pics of you, but you don't look fat to me!

 

look at the pics of be between HighPoint and Putt....then tell me what you think

(thats where Honey girl comes in town)

 

thanks, your the best

 

I saw them, those are the only ones I have seen, and I still don't think you are fat.

 

well thank you......(i think im rather chubby)

 

be careful with that xenadrine stuff, francise.