subject: How Reebok's Easytone Trainers May Help You Lose Weight [print this page] Reebok claim that their EasyTone Trainers will improve your lower body tone, and most importantly your butt. However, I believe Reebok maybe missing out on a selling point, and that is that wearing EasyTones will not only improve your butt, but will contribute to weight loss. How, you may ask?
Before we look at 'how', it is necessary to to adopt an approach to weight gain and loss. A starting point that may appear to be quite obvious, but is often overlooked, is that weight gain is basic maths. You input more calories than you expend, and you are left with a surplus which results in stored fat.
So, on a simplistic level, advice a friend gave me the other day would appear to be common sense - "Run more, eat less". Apparently good advice. But, recent research by Barry Braun of the University Of Massachusetts would appear to turn this consensual idea on its head. It transpires that regular exercise whilst providing numerous physical and psychological benefits may not necessarily result in weight reduction.
The reason for this is threefold. Firstly, if you have ever been on a running, rowing, or cycling machine for half an hour at a reasonable pace, you may have noticed on the electronic stats that you hadn't burnt off much more than an apple or a quarter of a burrito's calories. Now I'm not saying that exercise doesn't reduce weight, it does, but, it is only one side of the equation. If you really want to lose weight through exercise alone, you would need to be exercising at sporting competition level.
Secondly, for most people, intense exercise will result in the release of 'hunger hormones'. This basically means that after an intensive workout you will probably be hungry enough to eat a horse, and if you do, then you have taken one step forward and two steps backward. Lastly, and this doesn't apply to everyone, is the reward factor. After throwing yourself at exercise you will probably feel that you deserve some sort of reward. For many people, food is their reward. Again, if you succumb to the temptation of a bout of self congratulatory calorific indulgence this is two steps backward.
How does all of this relate to EasyTone trainers? EasyTones, are not designed for high impact aerobics, but, 'soft exercise', in short, activities such as walking. Recent research concluded walking or other forms of soft exercise were more likely to result in weight reduction. How? Quite simply, when walking you are expending calories, however, the exercise does not result in the release of hunger inducing hormones.
There is always the potential for the food reward scenario, but that is down to the individual. Perhaps a cognitive learning process needs to be adopted. Our rewards system may need to be evaluated because it effects all areas of our life, not just exercise. We may choose our reward ourselves for all sorts of achievements, any accomplishment may result in the piling on of the calories if we are not careful.
The next time that you receive a promotion, solve a problem, or help a friend, reward yourself with something other than a 'large plateful'. Figuring out what you should really be rewarding yourself with is actually quite a liberating experience of self discovery that will help you grow as a person, and contribute to your overall well being, not just your figure.
So, will EasyTone trainers help you lose weight? If you combine walking with an honest assessment of your own rewards system and a thorough look at the types and amounts of food that you eat then most likely EasyTones will help.
But, do you need EasyTones to reduce your weight as opposed to a pair of 'standard' trainers. Probably not, but EasyTones have the added facet of toning, and I personally believe that the instability attained by the wearing of the trainers does lead to increased muscle tone. I say 'believe', because I don't fully accept research findings due to my cynical nature and knowledge of research methodology. What I do believe is that research findings plus my own life experience equals as near as you get to the truth, and that is good enough for me. Do they work? Maybe, buts its down to the individual, and bearing in mind that they retail at the same price as your 'average trainer' they are definitely worth a go.
by: Gary Brunswick
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