[brightball]

I lost 40 lbs after high school by working out 10 minutes / night. Pushups til I couldn't anymore. Crunches til I couldn't anymore. Hitting a punching bag til I couldn't anymore and when that was all done, wall sits til I couldn't anymore.

The first three I went as hard and fast as I could. Best shape I've ever been in.

[sudojudo]

>I lost 40 lbs after high school by working out

Nice work. Please don't take this the wrong way, but it should be noted for anyone struggling to lose weight: Weight loss is 99% diet (calories in, calories out).

Work out all day long, but if you're at a caloric surplus, you're going to gain weight. Never work out, but eat less than you burn, and you'll lose weight.

That said, there are countless benefits to regular exercise, so don't overlook it.

[brightball]

I was also eating subway roasted chicken subs for a lot of meals fwiw.

[logicallee]

Bodybuilders rotate body parts so that those can recover for a day or two. If they could work them out faster by working them out every day, they would.

So I wish some study did what you did, but had groups doing what you did (all-out for ten minutes every day), a group going all out for ten minutes but every 2 days, a group each doing the same but every 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, 70, 80 days respectively.

Obviously (or not so obviously!!) you'll get only a small percentage of the benefits as you go up in number of recovery days. But 10 minutes every 15 days for example is 4 hours a year. Is it possible that 4 hours a year of all-out exercise is the difference between fit and +30 lbs?

Attached is my prediction of the results, based on the reasoning in my first paragraph. Doing it every day has been a baseline of "100%" based on what you said "Best shape I've ever been in." The only thing I'm sure about is that it must go up with a couple of days of rest. My attached chart: http://imgur.com/WwbpDhq

It's a genuine experiment and I'd like to see someone do it. Also key is the "all-out" part.

By the way, having noticed that certain physical professions, where everyone eats similarly, and does similar labor, are associated with certain builds, I thought I might be able to answer the question for myself, if I found a profession like moving man but where people only are called to, say, load and unload something manually, twice a month or once a month. However, I couldn't think of any such professions. Hence the idea of a controlled experiment! (Control = daily exercise.)

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Historical coal shoveler: https://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln0k8ensdg1qd7ygho1_500.j...

Marines: http://storyfeeds.com/wp-content/uploads/Shirtless-Marines-t...

Rail track layer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_labour#/media/File:RAIL...

Moving men: http://www.movers.com/images/companies/gallery/937.jpg

since that picture has the company called "muscular moving men" you might think it's not a result of their job, so compare:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/emb/7237524340

compare arms (similar) and chest with lower abs and think of the tasks of moving men.