Energy Flux, A Different Way To Look At Losing Weight
There are a few newer theories on weight loss and getting in shape that are starting to go around based on energy flux. Basically, a flux (not like in Back to the Future...or is it) is a transfer of something through a plane perpendicular to the transfer.
Now, that something can be mass, energy, or a number of different things.
I've been reading about increasing your energy flux (let's say energy flow rate from now on, it's very similar and since we are only comparing you to you, it works) to increase weight loss.
(By the way, I am going to write a more polished article in the next few days. I am just getting my thoughts together now)
Okay, the name of the game is increasing the amount of energy flowing through you to achieve optimum results. So, that means you need to eat MORE, not less and increase the intensity of your exercise sessions (as an aside, if you aren't exercising while you lose, you are setting yourself up for long term failure, more on this in a later post).
Follow me here: If we eat more calories, say go from 1500 to 2000 (spread out over the day of course), we should be able to up our caloric expendature while exercising from 300 to maybe 800 without killing ourselves because we have extra energy from food.
So what you may say, it's the same caloric deficit (500 calories). Who cares....
Well, don't forget that the harder you exercise, the more repairs you have to do at night, which means more growth hormone release, which means an increase in muscle density, which increases the ability of the body to do work, which increases the amount of calories you can burn in the same time frame. Also, don't forget that most of your repairs are done when you are sleeping.....
And what your body's preferred fuel when you're sleeping....that's right....good 'ole FAT!
I don't know how many calories would be burned as a percentage but logic says that it would be more than if you did nothing.
All I know is this, I have never seen a fat sprinter (who eats like crazy and trains like crazy too).
More on this subject to come......
ps. Don't forget that you still have to eat, starvation diets are for the birds and don't work long term.