A Surprising Way to Burn More Calories

By Craig Ballantyne

If you want to burn calories, you have to do hours of cardio, right? Wrong! Recent research shows that resistance training can burn calories during exercise and long after the workout is over. This boost in your metabolism could be a crucial component in your weight-loss program.

The intensity of your resistance training workout determines how many calories you burn after you exercise.

If you've ever read a muscle magazine or spent a few hours in a commercial gym, you've probably gotten the idea that you have to do "high repetitions" (15-25 per set) in order to burn fat. However, studies show that it's not necessary. Women training with a heavier weight that allowed only 8 repetitions per set burned more calories after exercise than those with a lighter weight that allowed 15 repetitions per set. So we need to forget the "use high reps to get cut" myth and focus on high-intensity training instead.

The result of high-intensity training is what I call "turbulence." The stress put on the muscle during low-repetition training (the "turbulence") stimulates your muscles to undergo repair and regeneration during recovery. And that is what boosts your metabolism after exercise. If you don't apply enough turbulence, you won't get the calorie-burning benefits.

Worth Quoting: Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO of BET Networks, on Relationships

"In my negotiations with business partners, I always maintain good relations whether the deal is successful or turns sour. You never know who you will be dealing with next or even who you may report to next. Philippe Dauman, who is now CEO of Viacom and to whom I report, once was a board member with me on a now defunct company. We had a terrific relationship, but who knew that several years later he would be my boss."

(Source: Business 2.0)

It's Good to Know: Fingerprints

Due to the unique pattern of every person's fingerprints, they have been used to identify criminals for decades. But now researchers at Imperial College London have a new way to use them. Infrared spectroscopy, a sort of chemical photograph, now allows investigators to find microscopic traces of substances (such things as explosives residue) that were on the person's fingers when they left the print.

(Source: Discover Magazine)

Word to the Wise: Overweening

"Overweening" (oh-vur-WEE-ning) means overbearing or excessive. The word is derived from the Old English for "to be arrogant."

Example (as used by Joyce Maynard in At Home in the World): "Overweening personal ambition is no virtue; but while I had it, I could have danced on a bed of nails."

Michael Masterson
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