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Comment on Why People Wear Sweatshirts While Exercising, and Why It’s Useless by Sean

Sean — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:43:14 +0000

Yup. In the long term, you will definitely hold onto more water when you are dehydrated. If you stay properly hydrated, your body will not feel the need to conserve it so much. And of course, electrolyte imbalance can always cause issues with water weight.
However, in the very Short Term, you can dehydrate yourself and sweat out a ton of water, and your body will not be able to hold onto it. If you sweat it out, you are losing mass from water and you will weigh less. Even though your body will try to conserve water when it realizes that it is getting dehydrated, it does not have time to in the very Short Term, so you can still sweat out a bunch of water weight with a sweatshirt on.
And just to be complete, of course everyone will lose some water weight when they exercise regardless of what they wear. However, that was not the point of this article.

Comment on Why People Wear Sweatshirts While Exercising, and Why It’s Useless by Vince

Vince — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:29:30 +0000

Your reference to the loss of “water weight” in the example of the wrestler and the correlation between sweatshirts is flawed. First, everyone, regardless of what they wear when they exercise, will loose water weight first. This is just a given. Second, “water weight” is water retained by the body because of lack of hydration and electrolyte imbalance, not from drinking too much water. When you drink enough water, the body does not retain this moisture, it releases it. In fact, if the imaginary wrestler was properly hydrated while doing the sweatshirt escapade, he may have lost more fat to water as a proportion of body weight. Simply put, the more water in, the less the body feels it has to hold onto, thus a decrease in “water weight”.

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Comment on Caffine and Fat Loss by Sean

Sean — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:36:11 +0000

200 should be fine. I buy regular 200mg pills and snap one in half in order to take 1.5 pills = 300mg. If you can handle 300mg, then that’s fine to do. If you’re sensitive to stimulants, then 200mg will be fine.

Comment on Caffine and Fat Loss by Malay

Malay — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:37:14 +0000

Where can I get these 300mg pills? Or should I start off with 200?

Comment on Feel Your Emotions and Act Anyway by Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:41:14 +0000

I tell my friends this all the time. You just have to tell your body to shut up, and do what it is
told.

Comment on The Real Truth About How Cardio Effects Fat Loss by Sean

Sean — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:47:55 +0000

You are absolutely right. For many people, cardio does improve mood and makes people feel better overall, not to mention the general endorphin release from most forms of exercise. If you like doing cardio for these reasons, more power to you! The point of the article, though, was not that people shouldn’t do cardio. That’s not what I think. The point was that there are many people who do hate performing cardio, and by thinking that they MUST do cardio to lose fat, they may quit their diet sooner. So, besides the physiological effects described above, whether or not to do cardio does come down to personal preference a lot of the time.

Comment on The Real Truth About How Cardio Effects Fat Loss by KIN MAJOR

KIN MAJOR — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:32:11 +0000

You really need to read the psychology of exercise integrating theory and practice by lox, ginis, and petruzzello.

Also read into the SMILE study (Standard Medical Intervention and Long-term Exercise, conducted at Duke University), which found that vigorous exercise three times a week for half an hour or forty-five minutes reduced symptoms of depression as effectively as those on antidepressants. And those who had exercised were more likely to be partially or fully recovered or were less likely to have relapsed than the group that had only taken medication (Zoloft) or taken medication and exercised.

Sean, cardio DOES make many people happy. Read into it more.

Comment on If You Don’t Do This, You Will Stop Building Muscle by Sean

Sean — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:10:51 +0000

You’re welcome =)

Comment on If You Don’t Do This, You Will Stop Building Muscle by Muscle gain

Muscle gain — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:12:08 +0000

Thanks for the information which can really help in avoiding pain doing exercise to improve the muscles.