How To Burn Abdominal Fat

jacksonpt

Article suggestion: If you think it, it'll happen.

Think about how strong you are while you're working out and you will get stonger. Think about how much weight your losing while exercising and you will lose more weight. Think about eating healthy and you will eat more healthfully.

TL;DR: If you keep telling yourself "this workout is gonna make me look hawt" that workout will make you look hawt.

*sigh*

DanaDark

When told their work burnt calories and contributed to exercise, I am pretty sure many of the maids began working harder for that extra burn. There are thousands of ways to go about cleaning to cut corners or spend less energy.

I agree with this. Education made them work harder knowing the harder they worked the more they'd burn. It is a mind trick but at the same time it's just simply being educated.

Works with going to the gym too. If you let it slip your mind what the gym is doing for you, you tend to kinda slack off, cut corners, not finish that set or get off the treadmill 5 minutes early etc.

When you're there, actively thinking "I am improving with each rep, each step..." you really do push yourself.

After a while at the gym, it's easy to get the mindset of "I just gotta do these 3 sets and I am done" as opposed to a pro-active one.

wapan

Great article.

wewon

The study was conducted for 4 weeks. The researchers made sure that none of the participants had actually changed their exercise habits, smoking, or eating habits outside of work.

This assured that there was no external lifestyle factor that could have accounted for the results of the study.

How did they do this exactly?

I'm wondering if the people in the group that were told about the benefits and given details may have altered their life style, being more health conscious.

jacksonpt

Very interesting.

Personally, I believe that if I "believe" I can do something, I actually can!

And, my experience is that people with a positive attitude get positive results.

So, I do not doubt these conclusions at all.

Thanks for the post.

If you believe you can do anything, you can? OK, I'll go with it.

But it's not the believing that allows you to do it, it's the doing/trying.

Shayztar

The study was conducted for 4 weeks. The researchers made sure that none of the participants had actually changed their exercise habits, smoking, or eating habits outside of work.

This assured that there was no external lifestyle factor that could have accounted for the results of the study.

How did they do this exactly?

I'm wondering if the people in the group that were told about the benefits and given details may have altered their life style, being more health conscious.

Yeah. VERY scientific, don't you know? They SAY they made no other changes. Let's take their word for it and make big assumptions.

WarriorReady

Good article

Mr_Bad_Example

any cliff notes?

Article suggestion: If you think it, it'll happen.

Reality: Working harder will burn more calories.

If you think it will happen, you will do things to make it happen. It's not just one or the other.

Jules2Be

meh.

Katahna

Woah awesome read =]

fatboypup

" You burn it with gasoline and matches , DUH!"

DanaDark

meh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hX7g91s2jY

ninerbuff

This from the actual study:

Of course, it is possible that the room attendants actually did
change their behavior—actually did cut back on calories, improve
the quality of the food they ate, or work harder or more
energetically—but did not report such changes.

While I do believe in placebo effect, I would question still how accurate the actual following of dietary, activity, perceived exertion, etc. if it was done solely on a questionaire. That's not to say that I don't believe that the mind isn't a direct factor on achieving results, but another study with more stringent procedure of verification should follow up this one to confirm it.

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JoyousRen

" You burn it with gasoline and matches , DUH!"

:laugh: :smooched:

wewon

This from the actual study:

Of course, it is possible that the room attendants actually did
change their behavior—actually did cut back on calories, improve
the quality of the food they ate, or work harder or more
energetically—but did not report such changes.

While I do believe in placebo effect, I would question still how accurate the actual following of dietary, activity, perceived exertion, etc. if it was done solely on a questionaire. That's not to say that I don't believe that the mind isn't a direct factor on achieving results, but another study with more stringent procedure of verification should follow up this one to confirm it.

Ditto.

And I'm not simply trying to be skeptical for its own sake, but there is a gaping hole in the observations and we would be remiss not to scrutinize it.

A follow up may actually validate these findings or may reveal that if you tell a person that they are on the right track that they may put in a little extra effort to make things happen.

crisanderson27

I need someone to tell me there's a study proving you burn enormous amounts of body fat in your sleep.

For the record...that's actually when a significant amount of the bodyfat you burn...is burned lol.

Jules2Be

meh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hX7g91s2jY

HAH!!!!!!:flowerforyou:

TriumphNow

Coming back to read this later.

ninerbuff

I need someone to tell me there's a study proving you burn enormous amounts of body fat in your sleep.

For the record...that's actually when a significant amount of the bodyfat you burn...is burned lol.

TRU DAT. Most people on here don't even know this. They think they burn more fat when then exercise and hour.

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IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

lizziebeth1028

It's a good reminder to not just go through the motions. Do it mindfully, put everything you got into it! Be positive and believe you are making a difference in your physical and mental well-being! There is certainly nothing wrong with that!!