Burning Calories After Excercise
There is a persistent bit of conventional wisdom about how athletes continue to burn more calories after they are finished exercising.
The usual reasoning is that our metabolisms are turned way up for hours after we are finished working out.
The science behind this has always been a little sketchy and a new study sheds a little light on why the data has been inconclusive so-far. It turns out that this effect has a lot to due with how hard or how intensely you work out.
In other words, you’ll enjoy the after-burn from a tempo run or set of intervals, but you won’t get it from an easy run. I guess this explains why I always lose more weight (or get hungrier) during a speed-training phase.
Read about it in the Charlotte Observer.
Here’s a link to the abstract of the journal article.