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Ansam
I started using the recumbent bike machine at the gym for an hour, i sweat a little and it says i lost 420 calories, will this exercise be an effective way to lose weight?
Answer
Biking is the most effective way to do low intensity fat burning aerobics. A recumbent bike is great for people with weight issues or back problems as youâre sitting comfortably and your body is in a position that lighten your upper bodyâs weight on your ischium (the bony end of your pelvis on which youâre sitting).
The downside is that it could be boring, unless youâre reading or watching TV but that can become an upside as you can completely zone out and almost forget youâre biking, until your speed starts to decrease (when youâre running out of blood sugar) so you cool down and stop.
Be flexible and donât âbike for an hourâ. You warm up for 5 minutes (getting up in your THR zone), then you do 20 minutes, then you go from there. Some days, youâll stop and cool down for 5 minutes (for a total workout of 30 minutes). Other days, you can keep going for 1 or 2 hours (you slept very well and ate a good high carbs meal 2 hours prior).
You need to train your upper body (like swimming/aerobics and weight training/anaerobics) as a bike does not do that, unless youâre using an upright stationary bike with moving handles.
Fit people who use recumbent bikes outside (or runners) have to train their upper body with some other forms of exercising.
Walk too. Walking wonât burn as many calories as biking but you do it for 3 main reasons: itâs the most basic form for the human body to move forward (even on a treadmill), it challenges your body in different ways (youâre still using the lower body but differently) and last but not least, it allows you to avoid boredom as youâre not doing the same thing every day.
For weight loss, synchronize your meals with your exercising so you get a high carbs meal 2 hours prior (for energy, for an easy and efficient workout), like breakfast (morning workout) or lunch (afternoon workout) and then you get the next meal post exercise, once you cool down, stretch, stop sweating, take a shower/bath, allow enough time for your body to stop releasing chemicals (to prevent pain so you can keep going). Those natural chemicals (endorphins, epinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine that are released after 30 minutes) make you feel goodâ¦happy, energetic. Then hunger strikes as you need to replenish your blood sugar level. If you time it right, youâll dive into your next meal and not have to snack.
Use a slow cooker. You can cook healthy as you donât need extra fats. You donât need how to cook. Just add the right ingredients (if you use online recipes, use fresh veggies and avoid processed food...those recipes are from companies pushing their products). You donât need to supervise. If you open the lid, then you have to add 20 minutes. I was annoyed at my husband and kids opening the lid out of hunger and curiosity because it smells so good. I told them not to do that, but if they do, they have to tell me so I will add 20 minutes to the cooking time...if youâre hungry, you donât want to do something that will make dinner time 20 minutes farther away.
You can time a slow cooker to coincide with the end of your workout. Your food will not burn as it is very low temperature cooking all day long. Even if itâs ready, you can use the warm setting to keep it warm while you exercise. Youâll get great home cooked meals.
And eat enough calories to cover your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) or your body will adapt to a low caloric intake and lower your metabolism, making it very hard for you to use your body fat. And then, as soon as you would eventually start eating normally again, you would make body fat very easily, because you would have a lower metabolism and therefore regain all the weight you lost and keep going up, unless you exercise A LOT.
Womenâs BMR:
655 + (4.35 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) - minus (4.7 x age in years)
Menâs BMR:
66 + (6.23 x weight in pounds) + (12.7 x height in inches) - minus (6.8 x age in years)
Do not rely on machine readouts (even high quality gym machines can still have a crappy piece made in China for the readout). Know your own personal average calorie expenditure per minute so then you just have to time yourself and not worry about your speed or what aerobic activity you do.
As a point of reference, I would burn 8 calories/minute average. For biking, I can also calculate 32 calories per mile and burn 400 calories in an hour at a slow 12.5mph speed. So your recumbent bike readout is somewhat accurate...not like some people thinking that they burn 700 calories in an hour on a stationary bike because the readout says so!
Still, one pound of body fat is 3,500 calories of exercising (if you eat enough to cover your BMR) so I would have to bike 109 miles to burn one pound of body fat...maybe not even on the scale, as I would hopefully gain some muscle mass, biking 109 miles, especially during the first 3 months of getting in shape.
Biking is the most effective way to do low intensity fat burning aerobics. A recumbent bike is great for people with weight issues or back problems as youâre sitting comfortably and your body is in a position that lighten your upper bodyâs weight on your ischium (the bony end of your pelvis on which youâre sitting).
The downside is that it could be boring, unless youâre reading or watching TV but that can become an upside as you can completely zone out and almost forget youâre biking, until your speed starts to decrease (when youâre running out of blood sugar) so you cool down and stop.
Be flexible and donât âbike for an hourâ. You warm up for 5 minutes (getting up in your THR zone), then you do 20 minutes, then you go from there. Some days, youâll stop and cool down for 5 minutes (for a total workout of 30 minutes). Other days, you can keep going for 1 or 2 hours (you slept very well and ate a good high carbs meal 2 hours prior).
You need to train your upper body (like swimming/aerobics and weight training/anaerobics) as a bike does not do that, unless youâre using an upright stationary bike with moving handles.
Fit people who use recumbent bikes outside (or runners) have to train their upper body with some other forms of exercising.
Walk too. Walking wonât burn as many calories as biking but you do it for 3 main reasons: itâs the most basic form for the human body to move forward (even on a treadmill), it challenges your body in different ways (youâre still using the lower body but differently) and last but not least, it allows you to avoid boredom as youâre not doing the same thing every day.
For weight loss, synchronize your meals with your exercising so you get a high carbs meal 2 hours prior (for energy, for an easy and efficient workout), like breakfast (morning workout) or lunch (afternoon workout) and then you get the next meal post exercise, once you cool down, stretch, stop sweating, take a shower/bath, allow enough time for your body to stop releasing chemicals (to prevent pain so you can keep going). Those natural chemicals (endorphins, epinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine that are released after 30 minutes) make you feel goodâ¦happy, energetic. Then hunger strikes as you need to replenish your blood sugar level. If you time it right, youâll dive into your next meal and not have to snack.
Use a slow cooker. You can cook healthy as you donât need extra fats. You donât need how to cook. Just add the right ingredients (if you use online recipes, use fresh veggies and avoid processed food...those recipes are from companies pushing their products). You donât need to supervise. If you open the lid, then you have to add 20 minutes. I was annoyed at my husband and kids opening the lid out of hunger and curiosity because it smells so good. I told them not to do that, but if they do, they have to tell me so I will add 20 minutes to the cooking time...if youâre hungry, you donât want to do something that will make dinner time 20 minutes farther away.
You can time a slow cooker to coincide with the end of your workout. Your food will not burn as it is very low temperature cooking all day long. Even if itâs ready, you can use the warm setting to keep it warm while you exercise. Youâll get great home cooked meals.
And eat enough calories to cover your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) or your body will adapt to a low caloric intake and lower your metabolism, making it very hard for you to use your body fat. And then, as soon as you would eventually start eating normally again, you would make body fat very easily, because you would have a lower metabolism and therefore regain all the weight you lost and keep going up, unless you exercise A LOT.
Womenâs BMR:
655 + (4.35 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) - minus (4.7 x age in years)
Menâs BMR:
66 + (6.23 x weight in pounds) + (12.7 x height in inches) - minus (6.8 x age in years)
Do not rely on machine readouts (even high quality gym machines can still have a crappy piece made in China for the readout). Know your own personal average calorie expenditure per minute so then you just have to time yourself and not worry about your speed or what aerobic activity you do.
As a point of reference, I would burn 8 calories/minute average. For biking, I can also calculate 32 calories per mile and burn 400 calories in an hour at a slow 12.5mph speed. So your recumbent bike readout is somewhat accurate...not like some people thinking that they burn 700 calories in an hour on a stationary bike because the readout says so!
Still, one pound of body fat is 3,500 calories of exercising (if you eat enough to cover your BMR) so I would have to bike 109 miles to burn one pound of body fat...maybe not even on the scale, as I would hopefully gain some muscle mass, biking 109 miles, especially during the first 3 months of getting in shape.
"nautilus" equip is a brand name, right? What is the generic term for that type of weight machines? Thanks!?
amber h
Answer
There is a difference between a design patent (how it looks) and a utility patent (what it does).
Design patents usually last 14 years while utility patents last for 20 years (17 years prior to June 95).
Exercise equipment companies are like car companiesâ¦making and improving new models every year (2010 Product Line) so they can still beat the competition, even if the competition is copying their products. You always have a bunch of people in the R&D department (Research and Development) raking their brain to improve the product, even if sometimes they mess up a good thing (stop making it) just to come up with a newer thing that is not necessarily better.
Your question is like asking âwhat is a brand name of an old model car?â
Numerous companies make home gyms, bikes (recumbent and upright) or treadmills. Very often, what you pay is what you get, as far as the quality goes. Well known companies will spare no expense to come up with the best quality products (they get their parts from USA or Europe but not from China) and the best looking ones and the customer ends up footing the bill but gets a better product.
If youâre looking for a cheaper machine, you might want to buy a good brand second hand, usually barely used and like brand new but half the price. A high percentage of people (some of them with ridiculous amount of money to waste), are selling their exercise equipment when they failed to commit to it and then those machines become a constant reminder of their failure so they canât wait to get rid of them. Others sell their machines because theyâre moving in with somebody who already has machinesâ¦others, just because they need the space for a new roommate or a babyâs room! (the opposite of when your kids move out so you get an exercise room!).
There is a difference between a design patent (how it looks) and a utility patent (what it does).
Design patents usually last 14 years while utility patents last for 20 years (17 years prior to June 95).
Exercise equipment companies are like car companiesâ¦making and improving new models every year (2010 Product Line) so they can still beat the competition, even if the competition is copying their products. You always have a bunch of people in the R&D department (Research and Development) raking their brain to improve the product, even if sometimes they mess up a good thing (stop making it) just to come up with a newer thing that is not necessarily better.
Your question is like asking âwhat is a brand name of an old model car?â
Numerous companies make home gyms, bikes (recumbent and upright) or treadmills. Very often, what you pay is what you get, as far as the quality goes. Well known companies will spare no expense to come up with the best quality products (they get their parts from USA or Europe but not from China) and the best looking ones and the customer ends up footing the bill but gets a better product.
If youâre looking for a cheaper machine, you might want to buy a good brand second hand, usually barely used and like brand new but half the price. A high percentage of people (some of them with ridiculous amount of money to waste), are selling their exercise equipment when they failed to commit to it and then those machines become a constant reminder of their failure so they canât wait to get rid of them. Others sell their machines because theyâre moving in with somebody who already has machinesâ¦others, just because they need the space for a new roommate or a babyâs room! (the opposite of when your kids move out so you get an exercise room!).
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