BRAINS & BRAWN #33
"Small Exercise and Big Diet"
Just recently, a person I know started a fitness program. This program consists of working out for just one day and eating like a pig the next six days and is promoted as a "get ripped in 20 days" product.
It's a bit ironic that the guy who promotes this has no muscle and actually has some noticeable chub - that is a red light right there.
So what is the deal?
It won't work because it works against a law of thermodynamics. This particular law states that energy in is equal to energy out if no energy is stored. This relates perfectly and here's how:
If you worked out for even 8 hours one day and ate like crazy for the next six days, you are taking in more energy than you are letting go of - this means storing the energy.
So what happens is when you continue to work out every seventh day, you expend less energy than what you took in the six days prior to that one day of working out.
You can only imagine that this means that the person will get fat. So we notice another law of thermodynamics, it looks like this; energy in equals stored energy plus energy out.
Basically you would have more energy in than what is leaving your body and the direction and movement of the energy must be consistent.
The only acceptable approach to this is doing a full body work out (say for building muscle) and on the day you work out is when you add in more calories and protein than normal. For the rest of the week you would just eat normally and get the energy in and energy out - if no energy is stored.
So by number it would look like this:
Day 1 = 2500 calories and 100 grams of protein*
Day 2-7 = 1400 calories and 50 grams of protein*
Now those are just random valued examples. Depending on your age, gender, body weight, etc. the amount of calories and protein will vary. But the point is that from day 2- to day 7, you would eat only what you should normally eat and that which you would normally burn off. The reason for higher calories for your training day is to provide more energy so that you can do your work out.
Working out big one day a week and continuing to eat a high calorie diet the remainder six days is a fail.
Anyone who actually does this will get fat and not get fit.
See you again in 1 week..!!
It's a bit ironic that the guy who promotes this has no muscle and actually has some noticeable chub - that is a red light right there.
So what is the deal?
It won't work because it works against a law of thermodynamics. This particular law states that energy in is equal to energy out if no energy is stored. This relates perfectly and here's how:
If you worked out for even 8 hours one day and ate like crazy for the next six days, you are taking in more energy than you are letting go of - this means storing the energy.
So what happens is when you continue to work out every seventh day, you expend less energy than what you took in the six days prior to that one day of working out.
You can only imagine that this means that the person will get fat. So we notice another law of thermodynamics, it looks like this; energy in equals stored energy plus energy out.
Basically you would have more energy in than what is leaving your body and the direction and movement of the energy must be consistent.
The only acceptable approach to this is doing a full body work out (say for building muscle) and on the day you work out is when you add in more calories and protein than normal. For the rest of the week you would just eat normally and get the energy in and energy out - if no energy is stored.
So by number it would look like this:
Day 1 = 2500 calories and 100 grams of protein*
Day 2-7 = 1400 calories and 50 grams of protein*
Now those are just random valued examples. Depending on your age, gender, body weight, etc. the amount of calories and protein will vary. But the point is that from day 2- to day 7, you would eat only what you should normally eat and that which you would normally burn off. The reason for higher calories for your training day is to provide more energy so that you can do your work out.
Working out big one day a week and continuing to eat a high calorie diet the remainder six days is a fail.
Anyone who actually does this will get fat and not get fit.
See you again in 1 week..!!
Kindest,
Russ Nagamori
Russ Nagamori
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