I think (it’s late, and I was overserved) I posted a hopeful thread once on whether increased heartrates from hot spring bathing meant increased calorie burning. A bunch of haters and scientifically accurate people said, eh, not so much, you ain’t burning off the ramen that easy.
Okay, round two: I’ve spent the weekend racked by a bout of what is either pleurisy, meningitis, or a really crappy Summer cold. Whichever, it’s had me hacking and coughing up phleghm (I’m popular!) left and right. By now, the involuntary coughing fits (I’m considering self-administered codeine) have been so bad over four days that I’m left with deep-belly muscle soreness that feels exactly like how I feel after heavy ab work at the gym (where I’ve been conspicuously absent the past four days).
So tell me – did my belly-racking coughing jags actually work the core muscles, the way they feel they did?