Hello everyone. Welcome back to Fitbody Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Sad day. I sad but exciting day. I am recording the final podcast episode in LA before I moved to Austin. It is Wednesday, August 30th and we're driving on

Friday. I'm going to make the track from LA to Austin. So if it sounds a little

echo in here it's because I'm sitting in my

kitchen and there's currently no furniture in my house so let's get to the

episode because I'm excited about this one it's to be a short but hopefully interesting and

informative episode. So I want to talk about the phenomenon of increased calorie

expenditure following a workout or the elevation and metabolism that happens in the following hours or

following potentially days after you exercise. So I want to break down what this

means, what the research is saying about the validity of this phenomenon and how it may or may not

practically affect you in your results.

So excess post exercise oxygen consumption, excess post exercise oxygen consumption, excess

post exercise oxygen consumption, which I'll refer to as

EPOC from here on out, is that afterburn.

So that increase in metabolism that happens transiently or temporarily after you exercise.

You may or may not have heard of this being more pronounced after a hit workout or after strength training.

I'm going to talk about that. But essentially the theory is that your body

increases the energy that it needs for cellular processes following exercise and that

requires more oxygen. So this is hypothesized to happen because after you exercise

your body needs more energy to repair muscle tissue to clear lactate and to

replenish glucose stores that you may have depleted during your workout.

So what is the research saying about epoch? Is it real? I want to go over a few studies. I will put all of these studies in the show notes.

So I want to start with a study that has small sample size.

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