How doing simple exercise soleus push ups at your desk can improve metabolic health and burn fat
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Groundbreaking Research Reveals This SMALL Exercise You Can Do While Sitting Burns Fat Fast — And Could Change The Health Of Billions Of Desk-bound Workers Forever
- Scientists have discovered the most important health benefits of doing a simple exercise
- Soleus pushups can be done seated by repeatedly lifting the heel off the floor
- The soleus muscle is part of the calf and can be trained without fatigue
- 25 participants did 270 minutes of soleus push-up all day long
- Researchers found that it improves blood sugar levels and speeds up metabolism
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A new study has found that one simple, simple exercise can dramatically boost your metabolism and burn fat — while sitting at your desk.
Researchers at the University of Houston found that doing “soleus push-ups” continuously, even while sitting, can speed up metabolism and improve blood glucose control.
The study explained that the soleus muscle is a large muscle that runs along the back of the lower leg and is essential for standing, walking and running.
Scientists recently found that exercising the soleus muscle by simply lifting your heel repeatedly while sitting is more effective at regulating blood sugar than exercise, weight loss and intermittent fasting — which is good news for leg tremors.
Researchers have found that doing “soleus pushups,” working the powerful muscle along the back of the leg, can improve metabolic health and burn fat
Popular neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Huberman spoke about the study on his Huberman Lab podcast, saying the research is “very exciting” for those who want to improve their health but don’t have the time to exercise and exercise as much as they’d like.
“This study focused on how people who sit for a large part of the day and don’t have the option or a lot of exercise and maybe even not exercise at all can improve their metabolism and glucose utilization,” he explains.
“It had people doing soleus push-ups continuously and they looked at things like the use of blood glucose … they looked at the metabolism and so on.”
Soleus pushups can be done by sitting on a chair with feet flat on the floor and then lifting the heels with the toes on the floor, put back and repeat.
The movement is extremely low effort because the soleus is so powerful that it will not burn out or fatigue.
“In fact, you could walk on this muscle all day and most likely it wouldn’t become painful,” said Dr. Andrew.
The study focused on 25 men and women of varying ages, body mass indexes, and fitness levels to see whether performing soleus pushups for 270 minutes or four and a half hours a day would affect metabolism and blood glucose levels.
“People who did these soleus push-ups experienced dramatic improvements in blood sugar regulation and metabolism, despite the soleus making up only one percent of the total musculature,” said Dr. Andrew.
It saw a 52 percent improvement in blood glucose swings and a 60 percent reduction in insulin requirements after a meal.
Four hours of soleus push-ups with breaks reduced the fat content in the blood and doubled the fat metabolism.
Soleus pushups can be done by sitting or standing with feet flat on the floor, then lifting the heels with the toes on the floor, put back and repeat
The simple repetitive motion can maintain “increased oxidative metabolism” for hours, which improves the regulation of blood glucose levels and in turn burns fat, according to lead researcher Marc Hamilton
“We never dreamed that this muscle has such a capacity. It’s been in our bodies all along, but until now no one has researched how to use it to optimize our health,” says the professor of health and human performance at the University of Houston.
“When properly activated, the soleus muscle can increase local oxidative metabolism to high levels for hours, not just minutes.”