What burns off most calories? (serious question)

[Arch]

Hmmm. My understanding of weight loss when hot was that it was all in the loss of fluid....

I guess there must be some energy expended in opening pores, but I'd have thought there was more energy used to shiver, erect hair, chatter teeth etc.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

you should go to work in a rubber suit

 

[ComedyPilot]

Eat less, exercise more.

 

[Edge705]

you'll burn more calories in cold but lose more weight when its hot does that answer your question?

 

[Night Train]

If it is really cold at work then, by not wrapping up, your body will shiver to maintain temperature at extremities prior to cutting off blood supply to maintain core temperature.
In reality you wrap up warm and eat more to provide energy for your body to burn to keep warm.

Unless you are so cold that you are unable to perform at work, and H&S would have a thing to say about that, being in a very cold workplace would only serve to increase you energy consumption.


Back in the 60's when the miniskirt was all the rage womens legs became fatter to ward off the cold. So in theory, being in a freezing cold workplace could make you fatter as you get cravings for raw seal blubber for lunch.

 

[Keith Oates]

If it is really cold at work then, by not wrapping up, your body will shiver to maintain temperature at extremities prior to cutting off blood supply to maintain core temperature.
In reality you wrap up warm and eat more to provide energy for your body to burn to keep warm.

Unless you are so cold that you are unable to perform at work, and H&S would have a thing to say about that, being in a very cold workplace would only serve to increase you energy consumption.


Back in the 60's when the miniskirt was all the rage womens legs became fatter to ward off the cold. So in theory, being in a freezing cold workplace could make you fatter as you get cravings for raw seal blubber for lunch.

Is this another Japanese delicacy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[yello]

You know, I don't know. I thought it was the cold.

I'd taken Arch's line of thinking and had always assumed you burn more calories in the cold as your body tries to keep warm. Similarly, that hot weather caused sweat but not the same level of calorie burn.

But, as I think about it, I have no idea why I think that.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I sweat less and less on th ebike it seems...but in the pool..thats different..and it's weird sweating underwater....not to mention euuuuuuuuw.

 

[Night Train]

The other aspect is that in the warm the body wants to be thinner as it increases the surface area to volume ratio to improve heat loss. In the cold the body wants to be fatter to decrease the surface area to volume ratio to decrease heat loss.

 

[coffeejo]

The other aspect is that in the warm the body wants to be thinner as it increases the surface area to volume ratio to improve heat loss. In the cold the body wants to be fatter to decrease the surface area to volume ratio to decrease heat loss.

My body likes to think it lives in the Arctic Circle.

 

[Maz]

Do you burn any significant number of calories if you stand one of those vibrating treadmills? The one I'm referring to just shakes you from side to side while you stand on it. Can't be much good for you, I imagine.

 

[Arch]

My body likes to think it lives in the Arctic Circle.

My body IS the Artic Circle....

I'm wondering how many works canteens serve seal blubber...

 

[vernon]

My body IS the Artic Circle....

Hah!

The Artic circle is a mere extremity of mine. The rest of me is even colder.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

My body IS the Artic Circle....

I'm wondering how many works canteens serve seal blubber...

reminds me of the joke about two brummy eskimos:

brummy eskimo says to his wife "what's for dinner". she says "vera lynne surprise". he says "oh no, not whale meat again"…

 

[Lisa21]

I sweat less and less on th ebike it seems...but in the pool..thats different..and it's weird sweating underwater....not to mention euuuuuuuuw.

How on earth do you know your sweating, under water.....