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Resting Energy Expenditure, or REE, was also used as an indicator of exercise effectiveness. REE is important as it accounts for the body’s use of calories during periods of non-activity and helps to prevent weight gain (Hunter, et al., 2006). Multiple studies suggest that aerobic training is significantly more successful at improving REE. As sixty minutes of cardio had already been shown to increase REE for up to twenty hours following a workout and LBM, often associated with strength training, was a known contributor to caloric consumption, both aerobic and resistance training were measured to see determine their effect on REE after forty minutes of activity. Forty-five women were randomly divided into a control (non-exercise) group and two exercise groups and put a specific diet for twenty-five weeks while the exercise groups participated in their respective activity. The levels of REE were measured at nineteen, forty-three, and sixty-seven hours post-exercise following a twelve hour fast. The aerobic training group showed a significant increase. A fifty kilocalorie difference was found between nineteen and forty-three hours and a thirty-four kilocalorie difference between forty-three and sixty-seven hours for the aerobic training (Hunter, et al., 2006). Resistance training, on the other hand, showed no significant change in REE. Such has been demonstrated on multiple occasions including another study involving overweight women, in which resistance training actually reduced REE (Wadden, et al., 1997). Yet, it is important to note that researchers suggest that this may have been due to the level of the workout experienced by the resistance group as strenuous strength training has been shown to increase REE more than moderately intense cardio workouts fourteen hours post-activity (Hunter, et al., 2006

Ihope your PRECIOUS science can handle THAT.
Even the last sentence says you have to put in a shitload of work to your weight lifting for it to be worthwhile. I'm sure if people sprinted instead of jogged, though, they'd get a similar affect.