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I swam and did some sorta competitive swimming in my teens. I have taken it up occasionally since then. When I am starting off, I do like 6-8 laps total the first time and call it a day. Don’t underestimate how hard it is if you haven’t done it for awhile. As far as it being “strength training”. At first you will realize…

As a part-time amateur polemicist, I can only salute your last sentence. Well played, sir.

It actually would be both interesting and perhaps educational. Good intellectual discussions/debates benefit everyone.

Appreciate the response, but I think BS marketing and hype have always been part of the marketing in fitness and health. I’m sure somewhere there is a cave painting of someone in a designer goatskin loincloth promising better endurance in hunting mastodons if you buy his special herb.

There are benefits to the plates, but they tend to be specific and you have to hunt for valid scientific info. Research on these is still fairly new and so the parameters are still being sketched out. For now, there is little proven efficacy for “regular” exercisers and none that I know of for weight loss.

Incorporate weights, but not at the same time you are on the treadmill. Wait until the belt stops.

A lot of that is either ego posturing or attempts at marketing. In addition to what others have said, supplements are especially pointless for beginners. By focusing on consistent workout frequency, proper form, and the appropriate intensity a beginning can often see 100% improvement in a few months. Contrast that with the…

Like this one. Studies on “metabolic burn” show mixed results and, in any case, the “metabolic burn” is grossly overstated. Just for fun, I did a brief (like 5 min) search on this topic and found a couple of studies (that were not really helpful) and several articles on this topic. The responses were from people identified…

You said it: inflated. As in, artificially raised. Not by a training effect, but by incomplete recovery from the previous effort. No different than an elevated HR via stress, heat, or illness. A more suitable metric in this case would be perceived exertion based on breathing.

Whoa, nasty stuff. Glad you made it out relatively intact. Glad you have some good support. Take care.

At that pace with breaks, calorie burn is more like 250 for 30 min. If the Fitbit is using your HR as a guide, it is overestimating because your either have a higher than average HR response to exercise (perfectly normal), or because the higher intensity of running is causing an exaggerated HR response because you haven’t…

It would be interesting. I haven’t had that many people bring in dexa or hydro results. But not only am I thousands of miles away, but I wont have access to my equipment much longer. (It’s staying, but I’m not).

Appreciate the concern, but the OP is not asking a “cardiac question”, nor seeking medical advice. The question is: does taking a medication that lowers heart rate decrease calorie burn during exercise and other activities. It’s a straightforward, informational question that many people here are fully qualified to answer.…

"Professional" refers as much (if not more) to the quality of the person doing the measuring as it does to the measuring tool.

I was actually teasing a little bit, but since you asked. It’s a good question—since there is no exact reference I can use to check my measurements. You have to look at the research and get a sense of the standard of error. Then I have the experience of doing thousands of measurements, so I am pretty good at making sure…

You can have it done professionally at my gym.

The decrease in HR per se does not mean a decrease in calories burned. A beta blocker-esp at first- can result in a modest (eg 5%) decrease in Vo2max. So you may not be able to work out as hard or as long as before, which can mean a small reduction in TDEE. However, you still can achieve a training effect, so it is…

Nothing today smells as bad as the original polypropylene underwear that was the first “tech” fabric back in the 1970s. I think it came from Sweden. It looked tiny out of the box—like a pair of panty hose—and then stretched out and was skintight. I remember being amazed at how it worked in colder temps—like a warm glow,…

I have some of those as well—usually the cheaper or older ones. I used to reserve them for working out in the basement, but then even the dog started leaving the room. That’s when I knew they had to go.

I would disagree. Unless there is an acute rupture, I am not aware of any diagnostic imaging that would provide any greater insight. And for patellofemoral syndrome, an orthopedic surgeon would be almost totally useless at this stage. Which is not a criticism—it’s just not their field of expertise. There is a surgical…

I am under the impression from your OP that you had a couple of sessions with the PT and you received exercises to do on your own. As I mentioned earlier, you can “outgrow” those beginning exercises (meaning you have progressed to where they are not as effective—that’s not a bad thing!). If you are still seeing a PT, then…

It’s not a “bank”. Storing and using energy are not static processes, esp over a period like a week. If you under eat, then you lose weight more quickly, and if you overeat, you gain it back. The extra fat is your “bank”. You can do what you want and there is nothing wrong with relaxing your “vigilance” for a day.

Patella tendinitis can be stubbornly difficult to heal. But If you have indeed been doing exercises properly for 8 weeks with no noticeable change, then you might need a different PT or a new exercise approach (or both). One check: does your routine include a lot of glute work or does it focus mainly on the quads? The old…

Here’s the weird thing. I have heard those directions before. However, I wear tech shirts every day for work. So I wash a load every week. Put them in the dryer with fabric softener sheets. Works fine. Some shirts I have literally washed over 300 times like this-they look basically new and have no odor. Mostly Under Armour…

It’s not what you call it, it’s the number logged that is significant. The 300-400 calories in a hour is probably a little high, but not enough to make a big difference. From an education standpoint, as the previous poster stated, weight training is not HIIT. But for logging calories, you can pick a set number for each…

Just to make sure, are you weighing under identical conditions: ie fasted, first thing in the morning,etc? 3kg sounds a shade high, but I have (verified) gained 4 lb of water due to DOMS after one hard(er) workout with a bunch of new exercises.

The NIH body weight planner is based on mathematical modeling for weight loss based on the research led by Kevin Hall. Hall and his researchers produce some of the preeminent research on weight loss you can find anywhere. IMO there is no one currently more reliable than Dr Hall when it comes to research on obesity and…

Unless your muscle mass has changed dramatically (unlikely even with lifting), your body fat % would be in the 20%-21% range now, based on your dead results. That’s not athletically lean, but it’s also at the point where it takes increasingly greater effort to continue to lower it. As you know, you cannot “spot reduce”…

This. Also, the temperature at which a golden-related dog becomes uncomfortable is much lower than a human. Most vets advise against having dogs exercise vigorously (or sometimes even walking) when temperature + humidity exceeds 150. I live outside Chicago. These days, even at 5 am, the temp is upper 60s and humidity is…

Oops, I quoted you. 😬 That type of squat emphasizes quads more than glutes. OP: If you have knee issues that are aggravated by conventional squats, this might be an option; but I would try sit to stands first or even a wall squat (which is similar movement to the Smith squat you are describing, but less cumbersome), and…