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I on round 2 of insanity! right now on month 2. BUT I burn less calories than I used to to. what that could be? I don't understand what my body is trying to tell me! I've been eating enough, clean and healthy. and for example: on round 1 I used to burn 600-660 cals doing max interval circuit but now on round 2 I burn 400 or hardly 450 on max interval circuit!! what could be the reason?
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Same thing is happening to me. I'm no expert, but I think it's that our bodies are getting stronger and working more efficiently. My guess is that you're not sweating as much, not aching as much, and not as tired when you finish your exercises. In other words, you are getting healthy!0
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as you get fitter your body adjusts and burns less..0
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as you get fitter your body adjusts and burns less..
yep.0 -
Same thing is happening to me. I'm no expert, but I think it's that our bodies are getting stronger and working more efficiently. My guess is that you're not sweating as much, not aching as much, and not as tired when you finish your exercises. In other words, you are getting healthy!0
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In addition to your improved fitness your profile shows 12kg lost (congratulations!) which also reduces the amount of energy expended to perform a a task.0
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Same thing is happening to me. I'm no expert, but I think it's that our bodies are getting stronger and working more efficiently. My guess is that you're not sweating as much, not aching as much, and not as tired when you finish your exercises. In other words, you are getting healthy!0
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In addition to your improved fitness your profile shows 12kg lost (congratulations!) which also reduces the amount of energy expended to perform a a task.0
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google muscle memory. Short answer is, the more you perform an activity, the more efficient your muscles become at it. Efficient muscles use less energy to perform the same action. That's the main reason trainers like to "mix it up" ever couple of months with clients.0
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The heavier you weigh, the more you burn.0
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The heavier you weigh, the more you burn.
not necessarily true actually. Calorie burn is a factor of how hard you work and how efficient your muscles are at the work you are doing.
Heavier people usually burn more just because they haven't performed the activity as much, but the two aren't a direct correlation of each other. I know people who are overweight but very efficient at certain activities and burn far less than others (even myself) at them.0 -
The heavier you weigh, the more you burn.
not necessarily true actually. Calorie burn is a factor of how hard you work and how efficient your muscles are at the work you are doing.
Heavier people usually burn more just because they haven't performed the activity as much, but the two aren't a direct correlation of each other. I know people who are overweight but very efficient at certain activities and burn far less than others (even myself) at them.
True but I'm talking about if you keep all factors constant. So like they both are working equally as effective.0 -
The heavier you weigh, the more you burn.
not necessarily true actually. Calorie burn is a factor of how hard you work and how efficient your muscles are at the work you are doing.
Heavier people usually burn more just because they haven't performed the activity as much, but the two aren't a direct correlation of each other. I know people who are overweight but very efficient at certain activities and burn far less than others (even myself) at them.
^^^Yelp!! It is all on how your muscles and body handle and get through an activity.
CONGRATS on your progress!!!! :-)0 -
bumb-ing for more replies.0
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The heavier you weigh, the more you burn.
not necessarily true actually. Calorie burn is a factor of how hard you work and how efficient your muscles are at the work you are doing.
Heavier people usually burn more just because they haven't performed the activity as much, but the two aren't a direct correlation of each other. I know people who are overweight but very efficient at certain activities and burn far less than others (even myself) at them.
so do you mean that I should stop doing insanity!!!! but that's my favorite workout like ever!0 -
Same thing is happening to me. I'm no expert, but I think it's that our bodies are getting stronger and working more efficiently. My guess is that you're not sweating as much, not aching as much, and not as tired when you finish your exercises. In other words, you are getting healthy!0
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Same thing is happening to me. I'm no expert, but I think it's that our bodies are getting stronger and working more efficiently. My guess is that you're not sweating as much, not aching as much, and not as tired when you finish your exercises. In other words, you are getting healthy!0
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Same thing is happening to me. I'm no expert, but I think it's that our bodies are getting stronger and working more efficiently. My guess is that you're not sweating as much, not aching as much, and not as tired when you finish your exercises. In other words, you are getting healthy!0
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The heavier you weigh, the more you burn.
not necessarily true actually. Calorie burn is a factor of how hard you work and how efficient your muscles are at the work you are doing.
Heavier people usually burn more just because they haven't performed the activity as much, but the two aren't a direct correlation of each other. I know people who are overweight but very efficient at certain activities and burn far less than others (even myself) at them.
so do you mean that I should stop doing insanity!!!! but that's my favorite workout like ever!
Absolutely not, insanity is a great workout as far as pre-canned workouts go. One of the best that I've seen. No pre-made class is going to be as good as individual instruction of a good trainer, but short of that insanity is a great HIIT workout. But there's a reason why insanity is only 8 weeks long, because after about 8 to 10 weeks of any specific activity, the body becomes "used" to it. Even with a very diverse program like insanity there will be a level of muscle memory.
Muscle memory is a double edged sword. On the one side, it becomes easier to do a specific activity which means your endurance gains are going up, but on the other, the energy needed to perform those activities is less because nerve/muscle interaction becomes more efficient. So what you really want to do is do a round of insanity, then find something else to do for about 6 weeks that's very different, then go back to it. I bet when you do your first fit test will be a few percentage points lower than your final fit test from the last bout of insanity.0 -
Okay! thank you so much for helping me0
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I was reading Jillian Michaels book and she was explaining that you need to push harder to get that burn in. There are different methods for increasing the calorie burn as you get fit. One of them is increasing the amount of weights you use.0
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