A super mix of some electronic classics from the Pet Shop Boys, featuring a perfect tempo to help the rhythm of the workout and familiar lyrics to distract from the exertion of the workout.
We ended September with the final outdoor workout of the Summer, down at Vernons, after a run of a dozen warm, fine and dry (!!) Monday evenings. Huge thanks and bigger Big-ups to all our members during the warm months, and contributed to the mood and vibe of the class. We move indoors on Monday nights 6-7pm from October 6th 2014. The clubhouse at Vernons is well equipped for the winter months, dry and well ventilated. Quite a few of our members are on personal missions this Autumn, from weight loss to rehabilitation, to climbing to Mount Everest base camp. Good luck with that! I might give Darwen Tower a blast one Sunday. Diet tip of the week counting calories...fat burning all day long...try to eat less but feeling fuller.... Q: How many calories do I burn in a Kettlebell Class? A: 300-400. Note that this leaves a debt of energy in the muscles and energy system (liver). This means that the first 300-400 calories you eat will go towards replacing that muscle and liver energy debt. Only after that is the body likely to store excess calories. So you could say its worth 600-800 calories overall. Q. How do I burn fat all day (and night)? A: Notwithstanding your DNA, which sets your body's metabolic rate automatically, you can assume that about 15% of your body's daily energy usage/output comes from fat. The body will use glycogen and sugars for the rest. So, if you burn 1000 calories in the daytime, and 500 calories over night, about 225 calories of fat will be used per day. A key point is this. Low calorie - CRASH - diets DO NOT stimulate the body to go happily hoovering up all the fat from your body's favourite fat areas! So your rapid 7lb weight loss, the week before your beach holiday is not 7lb of fat. In the absence of enough food, the body will use up the stored glycogen in the muscles and liver AND after a few nights of hunger, the metabolism will slow down to balance the new low calorie intake. This glycogen is dense and heavy (more dense and heavier than fat), and as it amounts to 85% of the body's energy usage each day, it is used up fast - hence the "rapid" weight loss! However, the moment you start eating normally again, the body does two things. Firstly it fills up the muscles with the dense glycogen - WEIGHT GAIN, and as the metabolism has slowed down, the body treats excess calories as valuable, and shunts them to the fat stores - WEIGHT GAIN. So the net result is gain on two fronts. PLUS the body's new LOW metabolism cannot burn off as many calories as before so more fat is stored as a result - WEIGHT GAIN. |
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