After a workout, do you continue to burn calories at a highe

Still_Sossy
Still_Sossy Posts: 868 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I read somewhere a while back that after a workout you can continue to burn calories at a higher rate than before the workout. Does anyone know if this is true? And how long does it last? Is it a stimulated metabolism?

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  • End6ame
    End6ame Posts: 903
    My understanding (and I have not done extensive research) is that the calorie burn from cardio exercises stops immediately after you stop performing it. While heavy strength/resistance training exercises can keep your calorie burn up afterwards for an extended period of time due to muscle recovery. This extended bun is less than while performing the exercise however.

    Regardless, I would not rely on this effect for the calorie burn from exercises that you record, just take it as a bonus.
  • a_freeman
    a_freeman Posts: 116 Member
    Bump - I'd like to know too
  • butterfly_lvr
    butterfly_lvr Posts: 88
    while doing the Leslie Sansone walking dvd's, she says that you can continue to burn calories for "up to several hours" depending on the intensity of the work out you did
  • Newfiedan
    Newfiedan Posts: 1,517 Member
    From my experience and reading cardio burn usually ends not long after the cardio is done, HIIT cardio lasts for up to 24-36 hours post workout, and metabolic resistance training (aka kettlebells or the like) last up to 48 hours post workout. Weight training lasts long after the workout because the body needs to repair itself from that workout, a routine in which you are doing cardio with weights (aka metabolic resistance training) is the most time effective workout for those whom do not have the time to do separate workouts.
  • BeLightYear
    BeLightYear Posts: 1,450 Member
    YES! I wear a GoWear Fit armband (by BodyMedia) that tracks my calories burned all day, and yes, there is definitely an after burn effect when I do an intense workout. During an hour of TurboFire, I get up to 9 calories burned per minute and it takes hours for it to get back down to my resting 1.1 calories burned per minute.

    Hope that helps:flowerforyou:
  • crazymama2two
    crazymama2two Posts: 867
    From my experience and reading cardio burn usually ends not long after the cardio is done, HIIT cardio lasts for up to 24-36 hours post workout, and metabolic resistance training (aka kettlebells or the like) last up to 48 hours post workout. Weight training lasts long after the workout because the body needs to repair itself from that workout, a routine in which you are doing cardio with weights (aka metabolic resistance training) is the most time effective workout for those whom do not have the time to do separate workouts.

    ooh ooh this is me, this is me!! so glad to know what im doing, well, just started doing, is a fantastic way!! i mean i knew but its nice to read it from someone :)
  • SheilaSisco
    SheilaSisco Posts: 722 Member
    So... you're saying the strength segments in Jillian's 30 Day Shred will keep you theoretically burning calories longer? (in level two there are rows <I think> with weights while maintaining a low squat position and some other kind of row with weights while holding a static lunge)
  • bzmom
    bzmom Posts: 1,332 Member
    BUMP - Interesting to know Im currently doing ChaLean Extreme
  • End6ame
    End6ame Posts: 903
    Here is a decent article on the subject.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/health/nutrition/19best.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=baton+rouge&st=nyt
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,376 Member
    Intense workouts do this so any sort of Interval Training or Intense strength training (with weights or body weight). The higher the Intensity the more the effect. As far as my reading has went, if you do cardio at a pretty much steady rate it has virtually none. I should do some more digging and look up the research papers. I do know the comparisons I have read of long duration cardio and High Intensity Interval Training, the cardio doesn't even come close to the fat burning or HIIT, probably due to this long "after burn" which keeps burning fat long after you finish exercising. I know after a Tababa Interval workout (10 minutes total with warm-up and cool-down although the Tabata Intervals only take 4 minutes) my resting heart rate will stay elevated for most of the day. (Normally it is between 55-60 after one of these workouts it will sit up 65-75 for most of the day) It is things like this which have caused me to drastically reduce my cardio and increasingly focus on Metabolic Resistance Training and HIIT.
  • lil_missfit
    lil_missfit Posts: 565 Member
    wow!! this is very interesting....didnt know this at all...great post and thanks for asking the question:))
  • End6ame
    End6ame Posts: 903
    Couple of others I was given on another forum. Very good stuff.

    http://alwyncosgrove.com/2010/01/hierarchy-of-fat-loss/
    http://alwyncosgrove.com/2011/03/new-studies-on-the-afterburn-effect/
  • TrainingWithTonya
    TrainingWithTonya Posts: 1,741 Member
    Research EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption) as that is what you are actually looking at that is causing more calorie burn. From cardio and light activity it is generally only a couple of hours but from strength training and high intensity activity it can be up to a day.
  • peteyTwang
    peteyTwang Posts: 250
    Thanks for that TONY...according to this link EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption): http://www.drlenkravitz.com/Articles/epocarticle.html
    Switching up speed intervals in cardio (eg running 'fartlek' ) is the best way to increase EPOC in cardio... and
    "Heavy resistance training produced the greatest EPOC (10.6 liters, 53 calories) compared with circuit training (10.2 liters, 51 calories) and cycling (6.7 liters, 33.5 calories). In a similar study by Gilette et al. (1994), resistance training (5 sets, 10 exercises, 8-12 reps at 70% 1RM) elicited a significantly greater EPOC response when compared to aerobic exercise (50% VO2 max for 60 minutes)..."
  • angp7711
    angp7711 Posts: 324 Member
    I wear a bodybug and seen proof of this with my calorie burn. When I do the JM ripped in 30 I only get 150-225 cals burned but it keeps working for me longer after it is over. It actually helps my other cardio burn higher as well. So if I do the video and then go out for a walk/run I get a higher burn in the same amount of time. So cool to see this in a graph, lol...
  • Still_Sossy
    Still_Sossy Posts: 868 Member
    What is a HIIT, someone told m once but I can not remember, and where do I get one. I do have a workout with my Brazil Butt Lift program called "Rio Extreme" where it is a few minutes of cardio and then weights, then cardio then weights, and so on for 50 minutes is this HIIT or is it a work out that would give me an after burn?
  • Sumo813
    Sumo813 Posts: 566 Member
    Most recent article I could find (just yesterday)... and Men's Health talks about it on occasion, stating that Interval Training will help provide a good afterburn that can be as good, or better than that resulting from resistance training.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/health/nutrition/19best.html?_r=1

    I know with the bodybugg, I will reset the odometer when I'm done, and the calories per minute are higher for a short period afterward, but eventually get back to about 2 calories per minute. As of right now, I finished up on the treadmill around 8:20PM and reset the digital display... I have burned approximately 798 calories, which results in a 4.7 calories per min burn over the past 2 hours. So, I'd venture to say that there is a bit of truth to the afterburn, but it of course will differ depending on the person, and the exercises performed.

    --- Edit ---

    Damn... just saw someone else had the same NYTimes article. lol... GMTA!
  • Sumo813
    Sumo813 Posts: 566 Member
    What is a HIIT, someone told m once but I can not remember, and where do I get one. I do have a workout with my Brazil Butt Lift program called "Rio Extreme" where it is a few minutes of cardio and then weights, then cardio then weights, and so on for 50 minutes is this HIIT or is it a work out that would give me an after burn?

    High Intensity Interval Training... typically just referred to as interval training these days. :)

    Unless you're asking specifically, in which case it's a period of cardio exercise at a moderate intensity (say, maybe 5 out of 10) for 90 secs, then step it up to a higher intensity (8-10) for 30 seconds, and do that over a period of time. Of course the intervals can vary for everyone. One of the things recently in MH discussed stationary bikes and doing 12 seconds of moderate intensity followed with an 8 second burst over a 20 min period.

    When I do the stationary bike on Wednesdays and Thursdays before sparring, that helps to get my calorie burn up, otherwise I'd likely burn a lot less on the bike... at least according to the bugg, which isn't good on bikes anyhow.

    Oh... and here's yet another nice link... I love the detail in this one:

    http://www.fitsugar.com/Truth-About-Exercise-Afterburn-957512
  • Still_Sossy
    Still_Sossy Posts: 868 Member
    Wow, thanks everyone, there is a lot of info in these links, awesome! :bigsmile:
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