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We have all been told that our bodies adapt to the stimulus we put on it right? Well here's some food for thought on that subject.
Take weight lifting for example. After doing the bench press, your body will adapt in various ways, in order to make your chest stronger, making you more efficient at pressing that weight. The mechanism of adaption is primarily to enhance your muscular strength and endurance. You're lying on a bench, so the only adaptations required is enhanced strength of your muscles.
When you jog/run, your body wants to become more efficient at it, one big adaptation to achieve this is fat/weight loss. The leaner and lighter you become, the more efficient you are at jogging/running. This is especially the case with sprinting, fat loss drastically increases when sprinting.
Is this concept also true for resistance training?
Lets say you never bench press but instead do dips, your body has more ways it can adapt. Your body wants to be more efficient at doing dips, so it can adapt by enhancing the strength of your muscles. It can also adapt by shedding excess body weight. This can also be applied to lat pulldowns vs chin-ups/pull-ups.
Why are people who primarily do calisthenics always so lean?
I have thought about this for many years and I've tested it on myself. My body likes to hold onto fat in general and I really struggle to lose fat if I'm just doing exercises like the Bench press, that keeps my body in a stable and locked position. When I incorporate more dynamic movements like pushup, dips, pull-ups, squats etc it becomes much easier to lose weight.
You can argue that those exercises incorporates more muscles and thus uses more calories and yes that is true, but that doesn't inherently disprove my theory at all.
The number 1 exercise for fat loss for myself, greater than walking, running, sprinting, cycling etc is Burpees. Done HIIT style with strict sets and strict reps. I can feel that it is the most demanding cardio exercise for my body and so it absolutely HAS to shed body weight quick in order to be more efficient at it next time.
Have you noticed this as well?
Take weight lifting for example. After doing the bench press, your body will adapt in various ways, in order to make your chest stronger, making you more efficient at pressing that weight. The mechanism of adaption is primarily to enhance your muscular strength and endurance. You're lying on a bench, so the only adaptations required is enhanced strength of your muscles.
When you jog/run, your body wants to become more efficient at it, one big adaptation to achieve this is fat/weight loss. The leaner and lighter you become, the more efficient you are at jogging/running. This is especially the case with sprinting, fat loss drastically increases when sprinting.
Is this concept also true for resistance training?
Lets say you never bench press but instead do dips, your body has more ways it can adapt. Your body wants to be more efficient at doing dips, so it can adapt by enhancing the strength of your muscles. It can also adapt by shedding excess body weight. This can also be applied to lat pulldowns vs chin-ups/pull-ups.
Why are people who primarily do calisthenics always so lean?
I have thought about this for many years and I've tested it on myself. My body likes to hold onto fat in general and I really struggle to lose fat if I'm just doing exercises like the Bench press, that keeps my body in a stable and locked position. When I incorporate more dynamic movements like pushup, dips, pull-ups, squats etc it becomes much easier to lose weight.
You can argue that those exercises incorporates more muscles and thus uses more calories and yes that is true, but that doesn't inherently disprove my theory at all.
The number 1 exercise for fat loss for myself, greater than walking, running, sprinting, cycling etc is Burpees. Done HIIT style with strict sets and strict reps. I can feel that it is the most demanding cardio exercise for my body and so it absolutely HAS to shed body weight quick in order to be more efficient at it next time.
Have you noticed this as well?