“Soleus Pushup” (SPU) which effectively elevates muscle metabolism for hours, even while sitting.

[MFAAS]

‘Special’ Muscle Can Promote Glucose and Fat Burning to Fuel Metabolism for Hours While Sitting - Neuroscience News

The pioneering "soleus pushup" effectively elevates muscle metabolism for hours, even when sitting.

neurosciencenews.com

Pretty fascinating article!

"The soleus’ lower-than-normal reliance on glycogen helps it work for hours effortlessly without fatiguing during this type of muscle activity, because there is a definite limit to muscular endurance caused by glycogen depletion,” he added. “As far as we know, this is the first concerted effort to develop a specialized type of contractile activity centered around optimizing human metabolic processes.”

When the SPU was tested, the whole-body effects on blood chemistry included a 52% improvement in the excursion of blood glucose (sugar) and 60% less insulin requirement over three hours after ingesting a glucose drink.

The new approach of keeping the soleus muscle metabolism humming is also effective at doubling the normal rate of fat metabolism in the fasting period between meals, reducing the levels of fat in the blood (VLDL triglyceride).

So, how do you perform a soleus pushup? In brief, while seated with feet flat on the floor and muscles relaxed, the heel rises while the front of the foot stays put. When the heel gets to the top of its range of motion, the foot is passively released to come back down. The aim is to simultaneously shorten the calf muscle while the soleus is naturally activated by its motor neurons.

While the SPU movement might look like walking (though it is performed while seated) it is the exact opposite, according to the researchers. When walking, the body is designed to minimize the amount of energy used, because of how the soleus moves. Hamilton’s method flips that upside down and makes the soleus use as much energy as possible for a long duration. “The soleus pushup looks simple from the outside, but sometimes what we see with our naked eye isn’t the whole story. It’s a very specific movement that right now requires wearable technology and experience to optimize the health benefits,” said Hamilton.

3 min youtube vid about this

It's annoying they dont explain it,, but you can see what the person is doing.. I think I was able to reproduce it..

All of the 600 muscles combined normally contribute only about 15% of the whole-body oxidative metabolism in the three hours after ingesting carbohydrate. Despite the fact that the soleus is only 1% the body weight, it is capable of raising its metabolic rate during SPU contractions to easily double, even sometimes triple, the whole-body carbohydrate oxidation.

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Thoughts from the community??

 

[Mac11wildcat]

What in the..

 

[T&H]

‘Special’ Muscle Can Promote Glucose and Fat Burning to Fuel Metabolism for Hours While Sitting - Neuroscience News

The pioneering "soleus pushup" effectively elevates muscle metabolism for hours, even when sitting.

neurosciencenews.com

Pretty fascinating article!







3 min youtube vid about this

It's annoying they dont explain it,, but you can see what the person is doing.. I think I was able to reproduce it..



FULL STUDY LINK


Thoughts from the community??

It says this should raise the metabolic rate of the soleus to double or triple numbers. Not only is the Soleus a small muscle, just how many calories and carbs are you really burning doing calf push-ups while seated.

I don't put enough stock in this to ever bother trying it. In the grand scheme of whole body metabolism, I doubt this would do much and probably would never even be noticed.

 

[Mac11wildcat]

It says this should raise the metabolic rate of the soleus to double or triple numbers. Not only is the Soleus a small muscle, just how many calories and carbs are you really burning doing calf push-ups while seated.

I don't put enough stock in this to ever bother trying it. In the grand scheme of whole body metabolism, I doubt this would do much and probably would never even be noticed.

Check their whole body metabolism claims/findings..

Not insignificant.

 

[Type-IIx]

Oooooh, ahhhhh, amazing. Until, wait for it:

soleus VO2/kg during the 4.5 h of SPU contractions.

 

[Mac11wildcat]

Oooooh, ahhhhh, amazing. Until, wait for it:

Us guys with RLS already crushing this

 

[T&H]

Oooooh, ahhhhh, amazing. Until, wait for it:

Never looked at the original research, obviously should have first. Figured there was a catch to such a large claim.

 

[Hightower]

It says this should raise the metabolic rate of the soleus to double or triple numbers. Not only is the Soleus a small muscle, just how many calories and carbs are you really burning doing calf push-ups while seated.

I don't put enough stock in this to ever bother trying it. In the grand scheme of whole body metabolism, I doubt this would do much and probably would never even be noticed.

I think it's some kind of fantasy, but not real. I do not believe.

 

[MFAAS]

Idk I just thought it was interesting. For science is all. Not viable or a real world thing.

The only way I could maybe see this helping is if maybe they hooked up a TENS unit or some other electric stimulation device to stimulate the Soleus muscle long term passively so one could get the supposed benefits while sitting at their desk working or something.

 

[Hightower]

I think many people wanted this when you are sitting, and electrical myostimulation of muscle groups is in progress.

 

[Type-IIx]

I think many people wanted this when you are sitting, and electrical myostimulation of muscle groups is in progress.

Yeah, sure. I bet those people are fun at parties. Nyah, I maximize my 24 hr carbohydrate oxidation versus those peasants that do LISS/cardio without nary a voluntary contraction, nyar.

 

[Hightower]

Yeah, sure. I bet those people are fun at parties. Nyah, I maximize my 24 hr carbohydrate oxidation versus those peasants that do LISS/cardio without nary a voluntary contraction, nyar.

That's right, I just described this category of people beautifully and accurately