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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Bounce Forward with me, Tif Paul.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to acknowledge your traditional custodians of the land

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Speaker 1: on which I'm recording this podcast. The wereundry people of

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Speaker 1: the cooler nation. I pay my respects to elders past

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Speaker 1: and present. Beck came to me with a really interesting question.

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Speaker 1: Do you burn more calories working out in colder weather

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Speaker 1: or warmer weather? So, say, in the cold weather, you

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Speaker 1: have to work harder to warm your body, So do

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Speaker 1: you burn more calories because it takes you longer to

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Speaker 1: get warm, but in summer you're already warm and can

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Speaker 1: start sweating faster. Not sure if it's a silly question,

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Speaker 1: as I'm sure a lot of it has to do

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Speaker 1: with getting your heart rate up. Now, Beck, I've been

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Speaker 1: wondering this myself in the freezing Arctic blast weather in

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Speaker 1: Melbourne because it feels like it just feels to me

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Speaker 1: like I'm burning more calories because I'm freezing and shivering,

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Speaker 1: and so I did want to look into this a

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Speaker 1: bit more. The amount of calories that you burn and

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Speaker 1: can actually be influenced by weather conditions, as your body

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Speaker 1: actually needs to maintain its core temperature. So in cold weather,

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Speaker 1: you've got thermoregulation. In cold weather, your body works harder

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Speaker 1: to maintain its core temperature, which leads to an increased

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Speaker 1: calorie burn. You're right, you're shivering, which is a natural

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Speaker 1: responsor cold and it can significantly increase energy expenditure, which

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Speaker 1: was really interesting. You've also got increase in metabolism because

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Speaker 1: the body's metabolic rate may increase in cold conditions to

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Speaker 1: generate more heat, thus burning more calories. And then wearing

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Speaker 1: heavy or multiple layers of clothes can add resistance and

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Speaker 1: weight slightly. Maybe I was thinking about this increasing efforts,

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Speaker 1: So I went for a run this morning in the

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Speaker 1: freezing cold and wore like a hoodie plus a big jacket,

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Speaker 1: and then I had leggings and I wore traxing pants

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Speaker 1: on top. Layering can help you sweat more than you

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Speaker 1: burn more calories, So yes, there's a tiny, tiny little

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Speaker 1: bit of that adds to it. Then, if we're looking

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Speaker 1: at warm weather, you're sweating. Right. In warm weather, the

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Speaker 1: body sweats more to cool down, but sweating itself doesn't

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Speaker 1: significantly increase calorie burn. But warm weather can sometimes reduce

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Speaker 1: the intensity of exercise due to discomfort overheating. So your

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Speaker 1: exercise intensity goes down in warmer weather, potentially leading to

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Speaker 1: lower calorie burn compared to cooler conditions where you're exercising

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Speaker 1: more intensely to get warm. So I guess you've got

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Speaker 1: to think about the activity type. The type of intensity

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Speaker 1: of the activities play a more significant role in calorie

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Speaker 1: burn than weather conditions. We understand that, for instance, running

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Speaker 1: will generate more calories burnt than walking, like regardless of

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Speaker 1: the temperature. And then you've got to think about the

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Speaker 1: duration of exposure. So if you're exposed to extreme temperatures

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Speaker 1: hot or cold, it will affect your performance absolutely and

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Speaker 1: your calorie expenditure. I think in summary your bang on

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Speaker 1: the money. Cold weather you burn more calories due to

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Speaker 1: increased metabolic demands to maintain that body temperature, whereas sweating

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Speaker 1: and heat can impact comfort and performance and decrease your

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Speaker 1: intensity and therefore you're not burning as many calories. But

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Speaker 1: I think what we need to focus on here, Beck

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Speaker 1: is that it's all about what you're doing and not

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Speaker 1: really the weather, and we've just got to stay focused

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Speaker 1: on the activity type and the intensity. So that's what's

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Speaker 1: going to burn more calories at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: the intensity of you working out versus whether it's too

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Speaker 1: hot or if it's too cold. So when you feel

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Speaker 1: the impulse to hibernate during winter and hide away and

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Speaker 1: just eat more food because it's winter and it's cold

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Speaker 1: and you feel blah, maybe we can flip the narrative

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Speaker 1: a little bit and find it more motivating because we

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Speaker 1: actually know that we can burn more calories in colder temperatures.

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Speaker 1: So get out there, get exercising. If your goal is

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Speaker 1: to have a really good body in summer, then you've

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Speaker 1: got to start in winter. And it's kind of motivating

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Speaker 1: to think, oh, I could burn more calories if I'm

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Speaker 1: a bit colder. You know, use that as motivation. And

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Speaker 1: it's kind of funny thinking that we do eat a

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Speaker 1: little bit more in winter, but it's kind of an

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Speaker 1: evolutionary response to this thing of like trying to get warm.

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Speaker 1: Metabolism is increased, therefore our hungry is increase. So it's

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Speaker 1: funny when you put all these things together, it really

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Speaker 1: did make me think back. So thank you for such

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Speaker 1: a great question. Thanks so much for listening to Bounce Forward.

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Speaker 1: what questions you'd love me to cover. Don't forget to

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