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Re: Fitness trainers
If by “get you going”, you mean “adding to the pool of unqualified dilettantes posing as personal trainers”, then yes.6 -
Re: Scientific Research on Metabolism
Agree. I saw “AARP” “evolutionary biologist” and “metabolism” and my Woo Detector went to DEFCON 2. Then I saw the sentence about some “tribe” in Tanzania and went to Full Woo Alert.8 -
Re: Altitude calories burned
If anything, when you are working out, you are exerting yourself less because you can’t work as hard at altitude. HRMs are passive devices—all they can do is interpret electronic impulses according t…4 -
Re: Calories burned from Kettlebell workout
Here is an abstract from one of the early studies done on sustained kettlebell swinging (12 minutes). It appeared in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning in 2010. “In recent years, kettlebells ha…2 -
Re: Calories burned from Kettlebell workout
I am estimating that you are doing a total of about 5 min of actual lifting. Even at 8 METs effort for that time (which is generous), that’s about 50-55 calories for the lifting. Another 40-45 for th…3
