ConBody – prison style workout raises $25,000 in hours to employ ex-cons

by InInteraction • 9 years ago

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torstenvl• 9 years ago

This is a great concept. One thing the United States is really bad at (compared to some European countries) is emphasizing rehabilitation as a criminal justice objective. Instead, we prefer to permanently stigmatize convicted individuals, in some jurisdictions even disenfranchising them from political participation.

I am a little ashamed to admit I got a slight chuckle out of imagining the taller man in a tuxedo in a cell. I'm pretty sure the website meant to describe them as "formerly" rather than "formally" incarcerated.

0xbear• 9 years ago

Except, of course, exercise has very little effect on weight loss.

sliken• 9 years ago

Yes, calories burned during exercise is no a major part of weight loss. However with the right training you can raise your base metabolism. Otherwise when you diet your metabolism tends to slow, which offsets your decreased eating.

gotrecruit• 9 years ago

this is not untrue, but a severely over-exaggerated cliche. whatever amount you can raise your BMR via exercise, is not going to be significant enough to make any kind of difference. not to mention, if we are going the stereotypical way of copious amounts of cardio, even worse because it does even less for your BMR.

falcolas3• 9 years ago

I remember reading that the difference between the fastest and slowest metabolisms worked out to somewhere around 1-200 calories per day. Not a huge difference.

The Mayo Clinic’s own comment on this seems to agree. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/weight-loss/in-...

forkLding• 9 years ago

Saw these guys before, glad theyre doig great things.

theneb• 9 years ago

ConBody was the subject of two podcasts from Gimlet's Startup season: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/happy-ending-season-3-episod...

pacifika• 9 years ago

Weight loss is not related to exercise but to eating less

zimpenfish2• 9 years ago

If you eat the same and exercise more, won't that give the same result?

falcolas3• 9 years ago

It takes an hour of moderate exercise to burn around 100 calories. So, theoretically yes, but you would have to exercise a lot to see a minor change in weight.

100 calories is 1/4 of a mocha.

celticninja• 9 years ago

yes it will, you can see faster results by combining both, but if you don't change your diet and you increase the amount of exercise you do you will see a change in your weight.

ConBody – prison style workout raises $25,000 in hours to employ ex-cons

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