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Weights or Aerobics for Fat Burning? It’s All About Energy Expenditure

Paul Rogers — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:13:31 +0000

I’m always amazed at how easily nonsense gets a hold in the fitness community and spreads like wildfire. One concept that has received widespread dissemination over a decade or longer is that weight training is better for fat loss than aerobic training. Various ideas about this have been propagated, including more muscle means more resting energy expenditure, [...]

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Weights or Aerobics for Fat Burning? It’s All About Energy Expenditure

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What You Need to Know About Burning Fat

Paul Rogers — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:45:41 +0000

The idea of “fat burning” has become something of a cliché these days. I’m not surprised. It sounds logical that if you want to lose weight you should burn up that body fat that makes you fat . . . right? In a way that’s correct, but what has been grossly misunderstood — even [...]

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What You Need to Know About Burning Fat

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Don’t Go Belly Up – Control That Waistline

Paul Rogers — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:56:29 +0000

A big belly is potentially a health warning — for men and women. True, there may be metabolic types that defy the general health implications of a substantial girth. Some men and women might actually be metabolically normal with a large waistline — especially if they are physically active – but I wouldn’t count on it. [...]

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Don’t Go Belly Up – Control That Waistline

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Exercise Won’t Make You Fat – And Pigs Still Can’t Fly

Paul Rogers — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:14:47 +0000

The poor guy. His name is John Cloud and he recently wrote an article called Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin for TIME magazine. He, and the article, have taken a real battering from fitness industry stalwarts, including me over at my About.com gig: Exercise Won’t Help You Lose Weight – Wrong! But you would [...]

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Exercise Won’t Make You Fat – And Pigs Still Can’t Fly

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Prevention and Management of Diabetes with Lifestyle Change

Paul Rogers — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:55:11 +0000

Diabetes comes in a few different medical configurations. Type 1 Diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes) was once called juvenile diabetes because it appears mostly in childhood or early teens. Insulin, the hormone responsible for storing glucose (blood sugar) and fats, fails completely and has to be replaced by injected insulin. Without insulin, glucose and fat and derivative products [...]

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Prevention and Management of Diabetes with Lifestyle Change

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Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

Paul Rogers — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:30:50 +0000

Weight Loss and Exercise Guidelines from ACSM The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has released a new Position Stand, Appropriate Intervention Strategies for Weight Loss and Prevention of Weight Regain for Adults, which addresses obesity and overweight in adults. Specific dietary and exercise recommendations are included. The paper also explores resistance exercise and pharmacotherapy [...]

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Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

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Steady State v Intervals v Weight Training

Paul Rogers — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:00:21 +0000

If you’ve been reading about fitness and training for a while, you will know that various trainers and fitness experts have a view about which type of exercise is best for health, fitness and body composition — fat loss, muscle building, strength and aerobic and anaerobic capacity. The truth is, if you want all round fitness with a [...]

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Steady State v Intervals v Weight Training

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My Top 3 Internet Fat Loss and Fitness Gurus

Paul Rogers — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:58:02 +0000

I get to read a lot of articles from many different internet trainers, nutritionists and health and fitness experts. Sometimes it’s just curiosity and sometimes I really learn from what they have to say. Although I mostly rely on my own research of the scientific literature for assessing the worth and veracity of any particular aspect [...]

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My Top 3 Internet Fat Loss and Fitness Gurus

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The 7 Mega Principles of Diet and Exercise for Fat Loss

Paul Rogers — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:56:58 +0000

Yes, I am somewhat proud of the fact that if you do a Google search (at the main google.com site), an article of mine still comes up number 1 for the term fat burning. It’s an article I wrote for About.com Weight Training over 12 months ago. I am surprised at this because Google records about 3.1 [...]

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The 7 Mega Principles of Diet and Exercise for Fat Loss

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Burn That Belly Fat With High-Intensity Training?

Paul Rogers — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:47:22 +0000

A recent study by researchers at the University of Virginia found that high-intensity exercise training disposed of more belly fat in obese middle-aged women than lower-intensity training of the same energy expenditure. The idea that doing high-intensity interval training burns off stubborn fat and visceral belly fat has been around for quite a few years. The premise [...]

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Burn That Belly Fat With High-Intensity Training?

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