14 DAY TRIAL // A team of medical students have recently developed a new type of concept clothing that they say makes it possible for people to burn more calories than they normally would while carrying on with their daily routine.
The medical students explain that their concept clothes work by resisting muscles. Specifically, they fit the body in such ways that they somewhat restrain motion and force the person wearing them to put extra effort into getting around.
Simply put, this new clothing makes the business of carrying on with one's daily activities a little more like walking through water, the students have told the press in a recent interview.
By compelling an individual's muscles to work harder in order to perform a task that would otherwise be easily accomplished, the clothes cause an increase in the number of calories a person burns while walking or climbing stairs.
Live Science tells us that, when asked to put on a pair of prototype pants that restrained hip movement and then made to spend some time walking on a treadmill, a volunteer burned 20% more calories than they would have, had they worn plain clothes.
The medical students expect that, should they start wearing such clothes while at the office or just hanging around the house, obese and overweight individuals would in time notice an improvement in their overall health condition.
Still, they stress that their clothes are not intended to be a replacement for a regular exercise routine. On the contrary, they are merely designed to facilitate weight loss by increasing caloric expenditure during daily activities.
“If we got just a little bit more caloric burn – not an overwhelming amount – we might get more exercise,” explains team member Ryan Grattan. “We're not creating [the clothing] as a replacement for exercise,” adds Franklin Yao.
The bad news is that, for the time being, the clothing, whose name is Skinesiology, is not available for purchase. Then again, the students have recently won &75,000 (€55,087) at a competition and expect to soon have a working prototype, so this piece of news is not entirely without a silver lining.
What's interesting – but, truth be told, not at all surprising – is that the medical students wish to first and foremost make their innovative clothing available for women. Still, they say that, all things considered, elderly people who can't exactly go to the gym might also be interested in their product.