Exercising to lose weight? Here's good news: new research shows hard exercise has you burning extra calories 14 hours later. Even in your sleep!
Today's journal of the American College of Sports Medicine reports on the new research, which was conducted in a metabolic chamber. Apparently that's some kind of room that looks normal but is able to monitor the things you need to monitor in this kind of research.
The research was conducted on 10 healthy men who cycled vigorously for 45 minutes at 11 a.m. and, throughout the rest of the day, burned 190 calories more than they would have without the exercise. "Vigorous" was defined as having reached 73% of their VO2 maximum which is, Wikipedia says, basically your aerobic capacity.
