176: How many Calories Do We Burn with Battle Ropes & Burpees?

If your goal for resistance training is not just purely getting big and strong, but also to burn calories and fat to shape your body, what are good exercises to choose? Could you even do some stuff in place of cardio? Today’s research study compares moves traditional to Crossfit along with large muscle mass recruiting and smaller muscle mass recruiting resistance training exercises to compare energy expenditure across them and get us answers. The applications half of the episode contains further thinking on how to maximize resistance training energy expenditure practically. John always reviews the full text of every article, but to see the abstract of the study discussed, click here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24942174
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