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March 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda TUESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) — Looking for a exercise
edge, a way to stay faithful to regular workouts?
Try chilling out — literally.
Cooling the palms of the hands while working out helped obese women
exercise longer, reports researcher Stacy Sims, a research scientist and
exercise physiologist at Stanford University School of Medicine.
She was to present her findings Tuesday at the American Heart
Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity
and Metabolism scientific sessions in San Diego.
“If you think about adipose [fat] tissue, it’s a great insulator,” Sims
said. For people who are obese, that means they often get too hot while
exercising.
“It would be like Lance Armstrong wearing a wet suit for the entire
Tour de France,” she said. “We’re trying to address those barriers.”
Sims wanted to see if cooling off the hands of the women she studied
might help them overcome fatigue and overheating while exercising.
The device she used is already in use by some professional athletes,
according to Sims. She decided to test it in obese women, who she finds
often abandon working out due to overheating and fatigue.
The research was not funded by the company that makes the device.
In the study, Sims evaluated 24 healthy women, aged 30 to 45. None had
exercised long-term in the past. They were obese, with a body-mass index
(BMI) of between 30 and nearly 35. BMI is a measure of body weight in
proportion to height, and obesity begins at a BMI of 30.
She assigned the women to one of two groups: both held the cooling
device in their palms, but only one group had cool water (60.8 degrees
Fahrenheit) running through the device; the other had water that was body
temperature (98.6 degress Fahrenheit) running through the device.
Both groups participated in three exercise sessions a week for 12
weeks. Each session included 10 minutes of body weight exercises, 25
minutes to 45 minutes of treadmill walking with the cooling device and 10
minutes of core-strengthening exercise. They worked up to the time they
could handle on the treadmill.
On the first day and last day of the study, the women did a 1.5-mile
walk that was timed.
The cooling group shaved more than five minutes off their time for the
1.5 mile treadmill test. They averaged 31.6 minutes at the start and 24.6
minutes at the end.
Their exercising heart rate went up, too, 136 beats per minute to 154
beats per minute — a good thing.
The cooling group also took more than two inches off their waist by end
of the 12-week study. That improves not only appearance, but health, since
big waists are linked with heart disease. Their blood pressure also went
down, from 139/84 to 124/70. (Below 120/80 is the goal.)
In contrast, the comparison group didn’t show any substantial
differences in any of the measures, Sims found.
The cooling group also stuck with it more, Sims said. “The controls
dropped out early, and skipped a lot of sessions,” Sims noted.
The cooling group seemed to get into the regimen, she said. “At the
end, some women were running [on the treadmill],” she said.
“If you reduce the heat stress, you reduce fatigue, sweating and
discomfort,” she explained. “You reduce a lot of the physiological
barriers that [make] people say, ‘I don’t want to continue.'”
The finding that the comparison group had no substantial effects “is a
bit strange,” said Duck-chul Lee, a physical activity epidemiologist at
the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, in
Columbia. He said he would have expected some effects after 12 weeks.
He added that “the results may not apply to people exercising in a cold
condition, for example, outside in winter.”
Sims wants to do a study of the device with more people. Meanwhile, she
says, it won’t hurt to try it this way at home: “Take a water bottle,
freeze it and take that with you in your bare palm [as you work out]. As
it melts you drink the cool water. It’s worth a try.”
More information
To learn more about getting started on a workout regimen, visit the American Council on Exercise.
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