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| Comments on Sunday 24 March 2002: |
| The other day, I was sitting, computering, in a cold place, for about ten hours. It was getting progressively colder. For the last six hours or so, I was shivering. It struck me that shivering is composed of involuntary muscle spasms; in that respect, it's rather similar to a TENS unit. Does it, then, have the same effect? If I shiver for six hours a day, will I effortlessly have svelte toned muscles at a fraction of the cost? And if not, why not?
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| Stavrogin |
| I think that probably that would work, in the respect of exercising your muscles, but it would seriously damage the vital parts of the body... |
| Khandi |
| Since shivering warms the body with a minimum expenditure of energy, it's probably not an effective way to excercise. |
| skum |
| It wouldn't work. Muscles can't be worked out without resistance. That's why, with a TENS unit, you still need to have some sort of weight providing resistance to the muscles you're trying to tone. In the same way, you can't work out your biceps simply by flexing them repeatedly. |