The Study
Greater Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption and Fat Use Following Calisthenics vs. Oxygen Consumption Matched Steady-State Exercise
This study watched what happened when people did two kinds of workouts and noticed one made them breathe harder after stopping. But we don’t know if the workouts were randomly assigned, so we can’t say one caused the difference—just that they happened together.
Analysis score
Maximum 90 for a randomized controlled trial.
Where the score came from
This study compared two types of workouts: a quick, intense bodyweight circuit and a longer, steady jog that used the same amount of oxygen during exercise.
Where does this study sit?
Reviews of RCTs (Meta-analyses)
Max 100Randomized Trials
Max 90Reviews of Cohort Studies
Max 85Cohort Studies
Max 72Reviews of Case-Control Studies
Max 63Case-Control Studies
Max 58Cross-Sectional & Case Series
Max 50Expert Opinion
Max 538 / 100
Quality score
Participants are randomly assigned to treatment or control groups, minimizing bias. The gold standard for testing whether an intervention causes an effect.
Key takeaways
Summary
Based on the study abstract and findings.
- 1Yes — even though the bodyweight workout was shorter and less intense during exercise, it caused the body to burn more fat and use more energy for up to 10 minutes afterward.
- 2After the bodyweight workout, people burned 1.7 kcal/min more than after the jog in the first 5 minutes, and 0.5 kcal/min more in minutes 6–10.
- 3Also, 71% of the energy burned after the bodyweight workout came from fat, compared to 50% after the jog.
Score breakdown, methodology, conflicts of interest, evidence analysis & raw study data
Publication
Journal
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
Year
2024
Authors
Eun-Byeol Lee, Oyama Okimitsu, Jiin Ryu, Tae Ho Lee, Dong-Hyuk Park, Sunghyun Hong, Sang-Hoon Suh, Dae-hyun Park, jungsun Han, Sophie Lalande, Hirofumi Tanaka, Minsuk Oh, Justin Y. Jeon
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Claims (4)
Twenty-minute high-intensity interval training sessions lead to more fat loss than forty-minute steady-state cardio sessions.
After one session of full-body bodyweight exercise, young adults burn a higher percentage of fat during recovery than those who did steady-state exercise with the same oxygen use, even though they used more carbohydrates during the workout.
After a single workout of full-body bodyweight exercises, young adults burn more calories in the first 10 minutes of recovery than after steady-state exercise that uses the same amount of oxygen, with higher calorie burn in the first 5 minutes and continued higher burn in the next 5 minutes.
During exercise, young adults who perform steady-state cardio at 60–90% of their maximum oxygen uptake reach higher peak oxygen consumption and heart rate than those who perform nine bodyweight exercises in four sets of 15 repetitions.
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