Comments on: From Fit to Fat to Fit and Back: Exercise and Weight Loss https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/ Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Alex https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511761 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:44:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511761

One only has to look at your picture and conclude that one can out-bench press you

To make those kinda remarks, you gotta post up your own picture.

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511760 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:19:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511760 Lyn, it isn’t so much gain in muscle that NO is important in (it is important but not super important), it is more in attainment of endurance and peak O2 consumption. For those you need lots of mitochondria in muscles that are well vascularized. Mitochondria biogenesis and the right kind of vascular remodeling require high NO. When NO does those things and when high NO is required is during sleep following the exercise.

]]> By: Lyn https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511759 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:07:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511759 If training without showering improves your performance, the bros at my gym should be racking up a lot more weights than they are.

]]> By: Peter https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511758 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:58:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511758 I can’t wait to meet Lenora!

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511757 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:28:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511757 Training without access to showering facilities is (I think) a lot better for developing endurance because more nitric oxide from commensal ammonia oxidizing skin bacteria facilitates mitochondria biogenesis. I suspect that this is some of the reason for the Kenyan and Ethiopian dominance of western marathons. Training in their native land without access to showering is equivalent to training at high altitude (because the high NO blocks cytochrome c oxidase), when they go to the West to compete, and shower off all that biofilm, their basal NO level goes down, and it is like they are running in a higher O2 partial pressure.

The increased endurance happens after the exercise when the body repairs itself (plus some extra), not during the exercise. It is the strength of the repair response (which depends on NO and a lot of other stuff), not the amount of pain or how severely one exercises.

]]> By: Lynn https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511756 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:03:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511756 GL: “My parents were forever leaving me in various forests or on the side of lonely mountain roads, and I would always make my way home eventually, on foot.”

The elephant in the middle of your Africa story? 🙂

]]> By: becca https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511755 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:23:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/01/10/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-and-bac-1/#comment-511755 You expect us to believe this? One only has to look at your picture and conclude that one can out-bench press you. Then, obviously, since all fitness is related to the g factor for athleticism, we can obviously conclude we can also out walk you.

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