Will an athlete who runs for an hour at moderate pace and is not tired at the end burn more calories than an out of shape person who runs for an hour a way shorter distance but is exhausted at the end?
Assuming both have the same weight and such
What I want to know basically is if your body gets stronger will it need less energy to perform the same amount of work?
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I was fat. When I first started running, I could barely run. It took me an hour to go nowhere and I was wrecked afterwards. The weight barely budged.
I pushed myself. I got fitter, stronger, faster… but was still fat.
But a time came when I was fit-but-fat and so I could run haaard for a longer time.. I felt alive after those runs. Energised and ready to go.
It was those hard, fast, alive runs that caused the weight to melt off in just weeks. Everything until then was just prologue.
I could feel my body dealing with the hard, long, fast runs for hours after I stopped… literally just slimming me down.
The slow, ploddy, fat-man runs just had me hurting after and having a sit down.
That’s not science, it’s just what happened. 🙂
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