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A large modified above-ground pool that the subject is placed into: buoyancy allows them to exercise without fighting gravity, provides a constant resistance.
As well as an exercise regimen enhanced by the superior heat dissipation of water, less voluntary control methods to induce weight-reduction
could include a water-current generator, and "shiver exercise" by periodically cooling the water temperature.
Only concern I have is if 24/7 immersion (or a substantial portion thereof) is unhealthy in itself.
Shivercize - Shiver those pounds away.
Shivercize
met a tepid reception. [baconbrain, May 19 2008]
Wikipedia: Water aerobics
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/Water_aerobics
[jutta, May 19 2008]
[link]
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Other than the abuse you're heaping on people who, I'm presuming, are not as slender and fit as you are, is there anything new about this? |
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Working out in water is a pretty old hat. I mean, I can go to the gym next door and sign up for it. So could, presumably, a fat person. |
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//Other than the abuse you're heaping on people// |
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nope, I mean the ones you see the recording of on Oprah; can't even stand up and if they could, couldn't fit through the door. It's actually a serious post. |
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[post, title edited to remove levity] |
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Edit it again, please, to include "water" or "pool" in the title. What's there now fits pretty much anything in this category. (Sorry, but that just bugs me.) "Live-in Pool For Obese" maybe. |
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This is about living in a pool, not just visiting for exercise. There's something to be said for that. The water could contain medical additives, or just added salts for better floating and skin non-wrinkling. (You don't want the folks turning into whales, so don't make it too cosy.) |
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Easy to increase their exercise. Double bag their twinkies. |
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Aside from the poor taste, there's
another problem. Aquatic habitats tend
to favour larger mammals, or those with
a greater amount of subcutaneous fat.
If the body did tolerate prolonged
immersion, I think it might start to
adapt by laying down even more fat. |
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Actually, the whole subject is rather
odd. You tend to get more suggestions
on how to make fat people lose weight
than you do on how to get alcoholics
clean. I'm not saying I'm not guilty, just
curious as to why there is such an
obsessive urge to "help" fat people. |
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All an alcoholic has to do is stop drinking. The obese still have to face the fridge, hence the difficulties. |
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//might start to adapt by laying down even more fat//
not a physician but I think that adaptation is for cold water; the "habitat" would normally only be cooled when exercising to allow better heat transfer. |
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[MB] possibly because more people eat than drink alcohol. |
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/The obese still have to face the fridge/ |
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In all seriousness, they still have to _reach_ the fridge. The truly enormous, it seems to me, have carers that also have a role to play in the maintenance of their large size, and maybe both carer and enorm need assistance? |
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