3 ms·
Nothing counterintuitive about these results. Anyone who has ever exercised knows that he has to switch things up if he intends to keep breaking the plateau eit
by dreamer7 7y ago
Nothing counterintuitive about these results. Anyone who has ever exercised knows that he has to switch things up if he intends to keep breaking the plateau either for strength or weight loss.
Our body is incredibly good at conserving energy which is why we feel less tired running 5kms daily after a while.
Only interesting point is the barrier on how quickly we can reach this efficiency with the limitation of how much fuel we can consume.
- gameswithgo 7y agoclarify: you don’t have to switch things up, but you do need to continually increase training load. switching things up may help psychologically for some but not all.
- bradleyjg 7y agoI don’t know about counterintuitive but the article says they don’t know where the savings are coming from. If we have the capacity to be more efficient why not always be more efficient? Presumably there’s some trade off.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- ZeroFries 7y agoBeing more efficient during higher energy demands doesn't necessarily optimize you for the same conditions with lower demands. It would be interesting to re-calculate energy expenditure at rest for the over-exercised grouped.
- Scarblac 7y agoI don't think running 5km daily reaches the 2.5x of daily rest energy use hard limit that they found across this wide range of athletes. The article isn't about that effect.