How long till I have energy from excercise?

heybales

I was stating what the body does if you don't eat enough for your level of activity - body slows you down to compensate so overall you aren't as active anymore.
Seen that happen within 2 days.
I was stating what I have personally seen myself and others.

So if sleeping extra 3-4 hrs in the afternoon allows you to meet your goals and stuff you need to do, and you don't want to eat more - problem fixed.

If you'd rather not be wiped out so bad - eat more, so body can burn more by being more active.

So to be clear.

Increase exercise but don't eat more - results I'd consider negative.

Don't eat more when increasing exercise is not good - matches that comment.

When you consider the burn given by MFP are you being honest with the time.
Like if an aerobics class is 60 min long and you log it as such - is the full 60 min really the intensity of the normal class.
Or is 5 min warmup, and 5 min cooldown, and 5 min stretching - so really only a 45 min class?
Or is time spent waiting for a demo of moves several times through the class prior to you attempting it?

While a 1000 cal/hr burn is possible, it's rarely done for a full hour, just not sustainable, perhaps 15 min at most.
What entry are you using?

And 50% is perhaps overkill, and then you are dropping another 50% it sounds like.
So by %, what is your deficit from avg TDEE to eating level of 1500?
50% - that's huge and no wonder body won't be happy.
30% - that's huge too unless 100 lbs to lose.

jgnatca

The cycle for increased strength and stamina (which is how I interpret increased energy) is as follows:
1. Work harder than you are used to on a particular system. It might be a set of muscles and/or the cardiovascular system.
2. The body goes in to recovery mode, the heart gets stronger the lungs more efficient, and the muscles swell.
3. While you rest and recover, you are rebuilding.
4. Repeat

If you interrupt this cycle in any way, such as underfeeding the exercise or interrupting the recovery cycle, you will actually get weaker. Your body will be pirating calories from one part of your body to feed another, or it simply won't have time to rebuild.

If you are spending more than one hour on intensive exercise, expect to be sleepy/tired afterwards.

If you figure you are burning 500 extra calories, eat 500 calories back. You are still in a deficit.

Don't underestimate the value of rest days.

Paschen81

heybales wrote: »

I was stating what the body does if you don't eat enough for your level of activity - body slows you down to compensate so overall you aren't as active anymore.
Seen that happen within 2 days.
I was stating what I have personally seen myself and others.

So if sleeping extra 3-4 hrs in the afternoon allows you to meet your goals and stuff you need to do, and you don't want to eat more - problem fixed.

If you'd rather not be wiped out so bad - eat more, so body can burn more by being more active.

So to be clear.

Increase exercise but don't eat more - results I'd consider negative.

Don't eat more when increasing exercise is not good - matches that comment.

When you consider the burn given by MFP are you being honest with the time.
Like if an aerobics class is 60 min long and you log it as such - is the full 60 min really the intensity of the normal class.
Or is 5 min warmup, and 5 min cooldown, and 5 min stretching - so really only a 45 min class?
Or is time spent waiting for a demo of moves several times through the class prior to you attempting it?

While a 1000 cal/hr burn is possible, it's rarely done for a full hour, just not sustainable, perhaps 15 min at most.
What entry are you using?

And 50% is perhaps overkill, and then you are dropping another 50% it sounds like.
So by %, what is your deficit from avg TDEE to eating level of 1500?
50% - that's huge and no wonder body won't be happy.
30% - that's huge too unless 100 lbs to lose.

The class is 60 minutes. 3 minutes of warm up, 3 minutes cool down, 3 minutes stretching, 3 minutes on floor routine... So far it's consisted of pelvic bridges 10 lifts with the last one held for 10 seconds or (don't know the real names) your in all fours you lift one leg behind and above you 2 times then out to the side up and down 2 times then switch legs and repeat until the song is done... It's paced to the beat of the song anaconda. The rest of the time is spent on your feet doing different moves to different songs like throwing punches, leg kicks, running, jumping, squatting, and other more fast paced dance moves incorporated throughout. You have 2 to 5 seconds between songs to get a drink.

Because there isn't an entry for it and because it is similar (though more intense than the zumba class after grooves) to zumba I used the zumba entry however... The entry has almost 1000 calories so I edit it down to between 500 to 700 depending on what my average heart rate was for the session. Usually around 168 average but a couple of the classes had my max rate at 210. My post rate after cool down and stretching is usually around 140. And yes I have between 150 and 165 pounds to lose. Oh the joys of being tall AND fat.


That said... The 2nd Saturday class I forced myself to stay awake... Very hard to do the first couple hours but the drowsiness did dissapate after a couple hours and I was able to get my chores done... Just didn't sleep well that night but that could been my normal insomnia kicking in not necessarily due to the excercise or staying awake after. As for not eating back "all" my excercise calories... I've seen more posts saying to only eat back half if you are needing to lose and all when in maintenence... So that's what I did.

I also gained again but again I contribute it to the excercise... I've been soo sore the past week and then Saturday and Sunday my hip hurt bad enough to make me limp... Thankfully stopped hurting so bad today. So I know I'm going to be holding more water... I've muy compression socks on this whole weekend but still have some water retention in my ankles no where near as much as Thursday after class... My skin felt so tight that night and didn't go down overnight so the compression socks went on.