On 2/27/2012 8:17 AM, Shay wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:11:18 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>
>> Also. A thing about BMI.
>
> Absolutely! Andrew should forget about his BMI and worry about his BMR.
> Walking is good exercise. So are the bike riding, running, weight
> lifting, hammer swinging, ladder climbing, kettle bell work, and
> calisthenics that I do. But I wouldn't recommend any of these to Andrew
> because none are the shortest path to what he wants.
>
>   -Shay
Interesting note. A study done a while back showed that merely knowing 
how much you burned, somehow, may result in increased loss. The study 
was conducted with two groups working basically identical jobs, under 
basically identical conditions, where the only apparent difference was 
that one group had a chart to consult, telling them how much they 
burned, for every single thing they did during the day, while the other 
didn't.

Still.. I seem to remember that they was someone looking into trying 
to.. retrain their body for "fast" action, like sprinting. One major 
improvement in BMR would literally be to trigger such a change, since if 
you could get your muscles to re-organize for speed, it would drop their 
efficiency 10%+, and thus burn that much more energy, during the same 
duration of exercise. Not sure if this is possible though. 
Unfortunately, pretty much *all* types of exercise used to drop weight 
does the exact opposite, triggering an "increase" in efficiency, and 
making it harder to lose/keep off the weight.

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