Judging by the title of this post, you might be saying "how can you use the words 'fun' and 'math' in the same sentence? Well, I decided to put on my glasses, stuff my shirt pocket chock full o' pocket protectors and pencils, and fire up the ol' calculator. Here goes.
So the updates at the end of week 1 have been rolling in. I need to hear from a few of you still so if you have yet to send me your mileage log and/or totals then try to get that to me ASAP. As a faculty we have covered a total of 277.89 miles in this first week! Yoooooo we've almost run across Pennsylvania!!! I'm confident that we've covered closer to 400 miles but Eric "big mileage" Mundy has yet to send in his update (along with some others). Let's go, Eric!
To put this mileage in perspective, 277.89 miles represents approximately 31,000 calories burned. Given that one pound of fat is worth about 3500 calories burned, then we've burned off almost 9 pounds of fat in one week.
But there's more! When you work out, your metabolism remains raised for up to 48 hours post-workout. Here's an excerpt from a recent study (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0846/is_8_21/ai_83911021/):
Q: Is it true that your body continues to burn extra calories for 12 hours after you've worked out?
A: Yes. "After vigorous exercise, we've seen caloric expenditure increase for up to 48 hours," says exercise physiologist Tom R. Thomas, Ph.D., director of the exercise physiology program at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The longer and harder you work out, the greater the post-workout metabolism increase and the longer it lasts. Subjects in Thomas' research burned 600-700 calories during one hour of running at about 80 percent of their maximum heart rate. During the next 48 hours, they burned about 15 percent more calories -- 90-105 extra -- than they otherwise would have. About 75 percent of the post-workout metabolism increase occurs in the first 12 hours after exercise, according to Thomas.
Conservatively, we have metabolised 6,500 extra calories post-workout. That bumps our caloric burn total to 37,500 and 10.7 pounds of fat. By the end of the summer, we might be able to burn off quite a staggering total.
Keep up the good work and happy exercise.
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Impressive! Of course, the beginning is always easier. I am dusting off my treadmill this afternoon since the weather is not cooperating.
ReplyDeleteHi again. I am pretty new to this blogging thing and I just posted 2 messages. If you check at the bottom of this page you can go to the older posts. Does anyone know how to just see everything each time? Not sure at all!
ReplyDeleteNo treadmill for me here so I am planning on doing 3 tomorrow and 3 Sunday! That should push me.
Have a great weekend everyone.
This is awesome! It was great news hearing about our updates....GO TEAM! Its amazing how great I feel after I do the 2 miles. Its also amazing to see how crappy I feel when I DON'T walk each day. 184.5 miles to go....
ReplyDeleteAlso noticed: more energy!!! I have not been this productive in a long time. It's like the energizer bunny.
ReplyDeleteYeah exercising on a regular basis will give you more energy. More energy=more exercise and so on. Also, I've found that when I'm really fit my body will crave certain foods and will 'ask' for the correct ratio of carbs, protein, and fat. Maybe you're experiencing something similar.
ReplyDeleteI biked 8 miles yesterday with my husband. This was a first for me and I don't think I could have done it without all those miles on foot first! At least 4 of the miles were against some good winds so when I got back my legs were like jello!
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