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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your metabolic rate can be several times higher in a pool or other body of water than it is on land without any exercise at all. Body heat is lost at a much higher rate when you are submerged in water and your body will burn more fuel to maintain core temperature.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So why isn’t “a long cold bath every day” the trendiest weight loss method??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

well, it cures ALS at least...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was wildly successful, raising over $200m and leading to identifying 12 genes that play a critical role in ALS

https://wgntv.com/news/medical-watch/the-money-raised-by-the-als-ice-bucket-challenge-will-give-you-chills/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

yes, that is indeed what i was referring to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is something fighters do when they're going extreme weight loss before a weight in. I'm addition to dehydrating themselves and eating clean, they have several different cold exposure methods that causes the body to burn more calories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

several different cold exposure methods

"Cough in my face, I need to lose weight!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, get sick, increase that body temp, increase that thermogenesis , burn those calories. Don’t be weak.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

I'd argue the most difficult part about losing weight is boredom.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

30lbs in 2 weeks using this one neat trick.

Ok anon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, they never mentioned they ate anything in those two weeks, just bobbed around in the pool

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Anons mom refuse to bring Cheetos to the pool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Swimming's really good for losing weight, no sweating and less knee pain involved. Wish I had a private pool too, you can definitely tell the public ones are 30% filled with piss.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I would imagine a private pool would be annoyingly small to exercise in, only ever seen one that seemed big enough and that one was way too expensive for any normal person to ever afford. Every other one has been more like for chilling in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I find it funny that there is an acceptable level or urea in a pool and it's like 10% lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is sort of how everything works, unfortunately! Guaranteeing 0% of something is really hard. Your flour probably has a small percentage of bugs in it, for instance. Urea is a relatively small molecule that I imagine you can find tiny amounts of pretty much anywhere. I would be unsurprised if there was at least one molecule of urea in literally anything you eat!

That said, dear god I hope I’ve never been in a pool that’s 10% urine :(. Those kiddie pools at the water park are probably like 90% urine, though. Sometimes I wonder if by volume adults pee in the pool more than kids, though. I have a suspicion a good chunk of adults think it’s fine or will do it secretly anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's not even unfortunate. We're a lot more robust than we think we are. We have two sets of organs designed to filter shit we consume out of us, and in quantities less than a certain amount, whatever it is isn't noticeable. Also, chemicals used in public pools are designed to neutralize things like that. If the water isn't noticeably tinged, you won't even know the difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My private pool would be 70% filled with piss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

20% cum, 10% shit and 100% drinking from it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

And a 100% reason to remember my name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

consistency son