{"id":2157,"date":"2008-05-02T17:46:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2008-05-02T17:46:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T17:46:30","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/2157","title":{"rendered":"Fat burning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ironman_triathlon11024x768.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ironman_triathlon11024x768-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Have you ever felt like doing an Iron Man Triatholon every day for 10 days?<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you did would you be worried about the effect on your body composition? Well a group of researchers were concerned that this could lead to loss of muscle mass so they looked at the 14 male and 3 female competitors in the 2006 World Challenge Iron Triatholon (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/42\/2\/121\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Triatholon study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">They lost 2.4kg<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>after the first day of their average 76.4 kg weight with a 5kg or 6.4% loss of body fat.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Although there was a little gain of fat in the later stages their lean body mass and body water rose and most of the fat loss was maintained.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Interestingly only 8 men and 1 woman completed and they trained on average 24 hours per week .<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">What does this tell you?<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not much probably other than the body has an amazing ability to maintain itself even under the most extreme conditions.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Have you ever felt like doing an Iron Man Triatholon every day for 10 days?\u00a0 If you did would you be worried about the effect on your body composition? Well a group of researchers were concerned that this could lead to loss of muscle mass so they looked at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}