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To all the people hiding from the cold weather: this is actually the best time for you to be outside and training. Here's why:
1. 70-80% of the body's energy goes to thermoregulation alone. Training out in the cold makes your body work harder both physically and to heat you, creating more an of energy deficit. That means more fat loss! (
2. Although strength gains be maintained by training every 14-20 days, cardio-respiratory gains must be maintained at a minimum every 5-7 days. If you want to IMPROVE your cardio, you should be doing it every two or three days.
3. Because of the weather, most people tend to over-eat, despite not even being that active in the first place. This is an out-dated survival mechanism that clearly hurts us these days.
4. Humans evolved for millions of years outside, despite such terrible climate changes. Just like in strength and cardio training, our bodies positively adapt and thrive in such a challenging environment as the cold or heat.
5. For every day you spend on the couch, eating and waiting for "nice weather," you are losing your cardio gains and gaining fat in the process.
Get outside and work your body, burn fat, and live like a human is supposed to!!
Sources:
An Infantry Life
Cohen, Barbara Jansen, Kerry Hull, & Jason James Taylor. (2013). Memmler s The Human Body in Health and Disease. 12th Edition.
Kenney L. W., Wilmore, J. H., & D. L. Costill. (2015). Physiology of Sport and Exercise (5th Ed.).
Tortora, G. J. & B. Derrickson. (2012). Principles of Anatomy and Physiology (12th Ed)
