Does weight lifting make you more hungry than running, walking, other aerobic?

[jimmyolsenblues]

I can't prove it, but I think when I work out with weights , bench press, squat, etc... I am much more hungry at night than when I go running, walking, or inline skating.

Am I alone in my craziness or does heavy weight lifting make people more hungry?

Thanks

[matawguro]

Re: Does weight lifting make you more hungry than running, walking, other aerobic?

No, you're not crazy.

The Scientist and the Stairmaster

The one thing that might be said about exercise with certainty is that it tends to makes us hungry. Maybe not immediately, but eventually. Burn more calories and the odds are very good that we’ll consume more as well. And this simple fact alone might explain both the scientific evidence and a nation’s worth of sorely disappointing anecdotal experience.

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More-strenuous exercise, these physicians further argued, doesn’t help matters—because it works up an appetite. “Vigorous muscle exercise usually results in immediate demand for a large meal,” noted Hugo Rony of Northwestern University in his 1940 textbook, Obesity and Leanness. “Consistently high or low energy expenditures result in consistently high or low levels of appetite. Thus men doing heavy physical work spontaneously eat more than men engaged in sedentary occupations.

BTW, don't worry about the increased appetite when doing weight training. As long as you're doing Atlins by the book, you won't gain body fat. The scale might nudge up a bit due to increased muscle mass and initial water retention in the muscles.

On a personal note, I've found that weight training makes me crave meat while aerobic activity makes me crave carbs.