Comments on: Endurance Training and Obesity: Effect on Substrate Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity. http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/research-review-endurance-training-and-obesity-effect-on-substrate-metabolism-and-insulin-sensitivity.html Training and Nutrition advice, straight from the monkey's mouth. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:16:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Interval training research is boring « Fitbethlin’s Journal http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/research-review-endurance-training-and-obesity-effect-on-substrate-metabolism-and-insulin-sensitivity.html/comment-page-1#comment-401 Interval training research is boring « Fitbethlin’s Journal Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:42:05 +0000 http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/blog/2008/04/04/research-review-endurance-training-and-obesity-effect-on-substrate-metabolism-and-insulin-sensitivity/#comment-401 [...] 2008, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Population: 8 males, sedentary, obese.  Crossover design, each participant tried endurance exercise at a particular intensity, then did interval training at +20% of that intensity. “A continuous exercise training protocol that can elicit high rates of fat oxidation increases the contribution of fat to substrate oxidation during exercise and can significantly increase insulin sensitivity compared with a eucaloric interval protocol.” (An interesting commentary on this article is available here.) [...] [...] 2008, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. Population: 8 males, sedentary, obese.  Crossover design, each participant tried endurance exercise at a particular intensity, then did interval training at +20% of that intensity. “A continuous exercise training protocol that can elicit high rates of fat oxidation increases the contribution of fat to substrate oxidation during exercise and can significantly increase insulin sensitivity compared with a eucaloric interval protocol.” (An interesting commentary on this article is available here.) [...]

]]> By: Vegita http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/research-review-endurance-training-and-obesity-effect-on-substrate-metabolism-and-insulin-sensitivity.html/comment-page-1#comment-329 Vegita Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:46:04 +0000 http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/blog/2008/04/04/research-review-endurance-training-and-obesity-effect-on-substrate-metabolism-and-insulin-sensitivity/#comment-329 Nice article, As a former cross country runner I have always known of the benefit of steady state cardio. While helping my family get into shape, I generally give them a mix of wieght workouts, interval cardio and some steady state long duration "cardio". They all have thier functions and for an untrained individual, doing all three will have more of an effect than doing any of them seperately. I don't really consider it cardio for the main reason that you aren't working your cardiovascular system to any major degree. You are however training your body to use fat as a fuel souce as you deplete your glycogen stores early in the excercise. Our CC Team used to have a day per week of just long slow running (we called it LSD's) we picked a pace that everyone on the team could handle and on a sunday just started cruising around town. Our longest was 29 miles. To this day I have been a lean individual (10 years later) even through periods of no excercise or focus on nutrition. My body is very adapted to handle fat in a manner which doesn't blob it all over my body. This science just confirms what many endurance athletes already knew to be true. V Nice article, As a former cross country runner I have always known of the benefit of steady state cardio. While helping my family get into shape, I generally give them a mix of wieght workouts, interval cardio and some steady state long duration “cardio”. They all have thier functions and for an untrained individual, doing all three will have more of an effect than doing any of them seperately. I don’t really consider it cardio for the main reason that you aren’t working your cardiovascular system to any major degree. You are however training your body to use fat as a fuel souce as you deplete your glycogen stores early in the excercise. Our CC Team used to have a day per week of just long slow running (we called it LSD’s) we picked a pace that everyone on the team could handle and on a sunday just started cruising around town. Our longest was 29 miles. To this day I have been a lean individual (10 years later) even through periods of no excercise or focus on nutrition. My body is very adapted to handle fat in a manner which doesn’t blob it all over my body. This science just confirms what many endurance athletes already knew to be true.

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