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ConBody – prison style workout raises $25,000 in hours to employ ex-cons

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This is a great concept. One thing the United States is really bad at (compared to some European countries) is emphasizing rehabilitation as a criminal justice objective. Instead, we prefer to permanently stigmatize convicted individuals, in some jurisdictions even disenfranchising them from political participation.

I am a little ashamed to admit I got a slight chuckle out of imagining the taller man in a tuxedo in a cell. I'm pretty sure the website meant to describe them as "formerly" rather than "formally" incarcerated.

ConBody was the subject of two podcasts from Gimlet's Startup season: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/happy-ending-season-3-episod...

Saw these guys before, glad theyre doig great things.

Weight loss is not related to exercise but to eating less

If you eat the same and exercise more, won't that give the same result?

It takes an hour of moderate exercise to burn around 100 calories. So, theoretically yes, but you would have to exercise a lot to see a minor change in weight.

100 calories is 1/4 of a mocha.

On the other hand, if you do more than moderate exercise, you can burn a lot more - I can burn 1000 calories an hour in a Half Marathon.

What? This is just plain wrong. Walking slowly burns 100 calories in an hour, if you weigh 100 lbs. Most people will use up more, just walking. Heck, if you weigh enough (somewhere just south of 300lbs), you "burn" 100 calories an hour while sleeping.

Moderate exercise (let's say, an easy jog) will burn closer to 600 calories per hour for a 170-lb, 5'9" man.

How else do you think Michael Phelps put away 8000 calories per day while training, if not by burning it via exercise?

You're right, I was mis-remembering the time period.

Keeping warm burns the vast majority of your calories (unless you're an athlete), so it's somewhat disingenuous to include them in the exercise figures.

Phelps (and other athletes) burn 8k+ calories a day by working out for 6-8 hours a day. Swimming is particularly intense, since it involves sustained effort of all your major muscle groups.

yes it will, you can see faster results by combining both, but if you don't change your diet and you increase the amount of exercise you do you will see a change in your weight.

Except, of course, exercise has very little effect on weight loss.

Yes, calories burned during exercise is no a major part of weight loss. However with the right training you can raise your base metabolism. Otherwise when you diet your metabolism tends to slow, which offsets your decreased eating.

this is not untrue, but a severely over-exaggerated cliche. whatever amount you can raise your BMR via exercise, is not going to be significant enough to make any kind of difference. not to mention, if we are going the stereotypical way of copious amounts of cardio, even worse because it does even less for your BMR.

I remember reading that the difference between the fastest and slowest metabolisms worked out to somewhere around 1-200 calories per day. Not a huge difference.

The Mayo Clinic’s own comment on this seems to agree. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-...

200cal/day is about 20 lbs./year, not accounting for adaptation.

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