Lower-Intensity Exercise Better for Weight Loss - ThinnerTimes

Gladitsme · 05-10-2006, 08:52 AM

Diet & Fitness
Lower-Intensity Exercise Better for Weight Loss

HEALTH NEWS BITEWednesday, May 10, 2006When it comes to achieving optimum weight loss results, lower-intensity exercise may be preferable over high-intensity training, a new study finds. Published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine, the study compared women who followed a three-month regimen of moderate-intensity workouts, such as brisk walks, with those who engaged in more high-intensity exercise such as sprinting. At the end of three months, the moderate-intensity exercise group was found to have shed significantly more weight than the high-intensity group, an average of seven pounds each compared with four pounds each. Researchers suggested that women in the high-intensity exercise group may have engaged in post-exercise overeating as a result of fatigue.

Dyann · 05-10-2006, 10:52 AM

Very interesting!!

Mavisavis · 05-10-2006, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Loser2be

Diet & Fitness
Lower-Intensity Exercise Better for Weight Loss

HEALTH NEWS BITEWednesday, May 10, 2006When it comes to achieving optimum weight loss results, lower-intensity exercise may be preferable over high-intensity training, a new study finds. Published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine, the study compared women who followed a three-month regimen of moderate-intensity workouts, such as brisk walks, with those who engaged in more high-intensity exercise such as sprinting. At the end of three months, the moderate-intensity exercise group was found to have shed significantly more weight than the high-intensity group, an average of seven pounds each compared with four pounds each. Researchers suggested that women in the high-intensity exercise group may have engaged in post-exercise overeating as a result of fatigue.

Well that's interesting....hmm.

Can you ask them to try it again but feed them all the same so we know for sure?

SaturdazeChyld · 05-11-2006, 09:45 PM

omgoodness I completely agree with that. I too, find myself feeling a whole lot hungrier the longer and harder a workout session I have. I tend to eat more carbs on those days for some reason.

I was thinking that it was just in my head until I noticed that I 'felt lighter' (if that makes any sense) and just felt generally better on the days that I didn't work as hard. Veddddy interesting....