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Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« on: May 08, 2007, 01:40:03 AM »
 Reuters Health

Monday, April 30, 2007

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who consistently engage in high levels of exercise over the long haul are the most successful at losing weight and keeping it off, a new study shows.

Among a group of overweight men and women participating in an 18-month weight loss program, those who were still getting 75 minutes of exercise daily a year after the program ended had lost 12 kilograms (26 pounds), compared to 0.8 kg (1.8 pounds) for people who were exercising less.

But only 13 of the 154 people who completed the study were able to sustain this level of activity, Dr. Deborah F. Tate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and her colleagues found. "Strategies are needed to help participants maintain high levels of activity over the long-term," she and her colleagues conclude in a report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The researchers initially assigned 202 people to either a high physical activity group who aimed to burn 2,500 calories per week (equivalent to a 75-minute walk daily) or standard behavioral treatment, including 30 minutes of exercise daily, equivalent to 1,000 calories per week.

Twelve and 18 months later, people in the high activity group had lost significantly more weight than those in the lower activity group.

Although the participants in the high activity group were able to sustain the 2,500 calorie per week exercise goal during the 18-month study, their activity level declined once treatment ended, which resulted in no between-group differences in activity or weight loss at 2.5 years.

However, a small subgroup of people who stuck to the 2,500 calorie per week exercise regimen after the 18-month treatment period ended maintained a significantly larger weight loss than those who didn't exercise as much.

People who maintained high levels of exercise were also eating fewer calories and less fat.

The researchers believe that their e-mails, mailings and phone calls to study participants for the initial 18 months of the study were successful in helping them to reach exercise goals; continuing to stay in touch may have helped them sustain this level of activity.

"It is also possible that sustaining the long-term behavior changes that are needed for behaviors such as physical activity will require changes in the larger social and environmental context in which these behaviors occur," they conclude.

SOURCE: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, April 2007.

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2007, 04:47:39 PM »
It's simple, 100 pressups, 100 situps, 100 squats every night before bed, and you won't get fat.

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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2007, 05:24:56 PM »
It's simple, 100 pressups, 100 situps, 100 squats every night before bed, and you won't get fat.
That is really boring! I find a run every morning helps. I am fotunate to live in an area which has many hills which I walk on reguarly. This keeps me in good shape.

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2007, 05:49:14 PM »
I'm also trying to build muscles, and running does nothing for your arm muscles, and not much for your stomach muscles.

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2007, 06:49:48 PM »
Someone help me out.  I still can't get past 30 back to back push ups.
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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2007, 07:08:52 AM »
Do something like this then: 30 pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 30 pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 30, pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 10 pressups, 10  situps, 10 squats.

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« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2007, 12:23:25 PM »
Do something like this then: 30 pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 30 pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 30, pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 10 pressups, 10  situps, 10 squats.

Lifting weights develops muscles without the tedium of pressups

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« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2007, 12:28:49 PM »
With weight lifting you are more likely to injure yourselfs, larger quantities of lighter exercises are healthier than smaller quantities of heavier exercises.

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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2007, 01:00:47 PM »
More boring. (Cliché time: Fitness can be fun)

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« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2007, 01:56:01 PM »
Do something like this then: 30 pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 30 pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 30, pressups, 30 situps, 30 squats, 10 pressups, 10  situps, 10 squats.

Lifting weights develops muscles without the tedium of pressups

Why do you want to build muscles?  For vanity's sake?

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2007, 07:31:18 PM »
ftf says he is short. He needs to compensate  ;)

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2007, 05:07:36 AM »
I want to be stronger for Judo, I'm the physically weakest regular attender at my club.

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2007, 08:47:14 AM »
Judo is a good way of keeping fit.

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« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2007, 07:41:46 PM »
I weight lift a lot and I fully encourage others to do weight lifting and that includes women, for women I am not saying to bench 100 lbs but 10, 15 even 20 lbs is fine. Women won't end up being muscled up looking like men unless they taking steroids. They would be firmly toned. It does help strengthen for men by burning fat and replacing fat weight with muscle weight. It also keeps your heart very healthy.  But with weights being from someone that does that always take precaution of what you can lift and your health risks. I would not encourage weight lifting for someone who has a bad heart but if you are concidered in good healthy condition they yes go for it.  Even some dumbells.
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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2007, 05:20:58 AM »
I think it's ugly for men to have those big muscles also. I think it's looks pretty gay.



What about men who don't have abnormally large muscles, but large enough to be noticible?

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #15 on: May 17, 2007, 09:57:50 AM »
There's nothing wrong with men having muscles...we're supposed to.

Real power however, comes from using one's body weight in the most effective manner.

Weight lifting is NOT healthy exercise.  The best exercise is INTERNAL exercise. Correct breathing habits, the stretching and lengthening of all the tissues and joints of the body.  These are healthy kinds of exercise.

Try Ba-Gua, Tai-Chi, Chi-Gung, Hsing-i, Yoga, etc., but find a GOOD teacher...there are many bad ones.

Lifting weights is an unhealthy, EXTERNAL form of exercise.

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2007, 01:03:15 PM »
It is good to do some external excersise sometimes though, break into a sweat and let out all your anger.

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« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2007, 01:10:25 PM »
It is good to do some external excersise sometimes though, break into a sweat and let out all your anger.

Of course. 

A good internal workout can do this too.

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« Reply #18 on: May 17, 2007, 05:24:29 PM »
If you workout properly it is healthy,the problem is alot of kids want to bench 500 after working out a year
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« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2007, 07:32:39 PM »
First of all I would never recommend anyone lifting weights till atleast they are 15 especially boys they are still in physical development.  And weight lifting is perfectly fine mixed in with cardio excersize, biking, tredmills when its a nice day out, walk.  The right diet and working out is the perfect combination but people have to be dedicated. Now I am not saying to make muscles that you look like a Gorilla but the stronger those muscles are the better your conditioning. 
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« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2007, 03:13:53 PM »
First of all I would never recommend anyone lifting weights till atleast they are 15 especially boys they are still in physical development.  And weight lifting is perfectly fine mixed in with cardio excersize, biking, tredmills when its a nice day out, walk.  The right diet and working out is the perfect combination but people have to be dedicated. Now I am not saying to make muscles that you look like a Gorilla but the stronger those muscles are the better your conditioning. 

I agree with this completely. I do not believe yoga and the like do much in the way of physical fitness.

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« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2007, 03:17:55 PM »
And people should join for gyms that offer cardio
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« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2007, 06:04:50 PM »
As much as I'm in favor of healthy living you've still gotta get a laugh  out of this one:

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2007, 07:13:57 PM »
I don't think I've ever seen so much bad health related advice on one page before, thanks for the laugh lubab.

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Re: Exercising harder keeps weight off longer
« Reply #24 on: May 30, 2007, 04:55:11 PM »
Someone help me out.  I still can't get past 30 back to back push ups.

  Do one more every day, your body will handle it pretty much indefinitely.  I can do probably do about 50 straight, and 6 months ago much to my shock I couldn't do 20 pushups...I used to bench press 200 pounds for sets of ten so I really freaked out when I realized I couldn't even do 20 solid pushups...I did one more every day until I convinced myself that I was doing enough...but 30 is actually pretty good, if you can do 10 sets of 30 you are probably in better shape than 90% of the people you pass on the street.

  Quitters never win, and winners never quit.......just do a little more each day.