Re:A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise
by dave_sullivan on Monday March 20, 2017 @04:55PM
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Apparently it's called "afterburn" and some googling doesn't seem to turn up anything saying it's not a significant effect... In fact, it seems like everyone is saying it's pretty significant (how much exactly being debatable and probably highly influenced by genetics). Where have you heard the opposite?
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Re:A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise
by jnordwick on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:08PM
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Every study I've seen says it is a fairly small amount of calories and you should just ignore it when trying to figure out how many calories an exercise burns. Like we know that running faster slightly increases post exercise caloric burn over running slower (on a per mile basis), but we don't bother calculating it in.