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Benefits of exercise after-burn may change the way you exercise

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  • Benefits of exercise after-burn may change the way you exercise

    Olympian turned M.D. Eric Heiden recently wrote an interesting column about exercise and the calorie "after-burn" effect. For MSers, who often can only train in spurts, this was especially cool:

    "Several studies have also concluded that intermittent exercise elicits greater after-burn than continuous exercise. In one study, the after-burn of a continuous run of 30 minutes at 70 percent VO2 max was pitted against that of a run consisting of 20 bouts of 1-minute duration at 105 percent VO2 max (referred to as supramaximal exercise). The latter disposed of more than twice as many calories — 75 calories (versus 34.5 calories burned after the continuous run)."

    Resistance training even had more impact on after-burn, something that most of us can do in some form. The full story is here:

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/health...,7039750.story
    Dave Bexfield
    ActiveMSers
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