Yesterday we went to a class that is part of a series of classes being offered by Bally’s Total Fitness in Santa Ana, California near to South Coast Plaza. The class was held by runner and author, Nicholas Prukop (sbcglobal.net email: runningnick) of Newport Beach, CA. His first comment was his own personal lack of knowledge, but use of proven methods in his own training. In his series of classes offered to educate and motivate students he speaks and writes on being fit beyond 60.
Every person has different goals and those goals need to be balanced by cardiovascular conditioning, nutritional balance and weight training. During the class, which are offered every Wednesday at 5:00PM throughout the summer, he uses personal references to his own personal family and lifestyles at different stages in life.
A couple times in the class Mr. Prukop reminded the class that muscles burn calories at rest as they are continually repairing themselves, even as we sleep. Of course I heard that same message before but it was one of those things you do not remember after you look at a body-builder and bow your head down as you continue on the treadmill.
Does it take being a body-builder in order to benefit from the calorie loss from muscle repair? In researching this I found Ph.D. Research Student, Ms. Wilbert (pcflabs.com email: cwilbert). In her research she states, “Building just five pounds of muscle is equivalent to burning 26 pounds of fat in a year.”. Now if we can only control fat intake to benefit from the burning of this fat to actually see a difference in our waistline.Today's Weight: 257
Additional Resource:
Metabolism and weight loss: How you burn calories (MayoClinic)
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