How to get a six pack from laughing: “It’s so funny I’m going to get a six pack!”
Keywords:
Idiom, Health, Biology, Exercise, Metabolism, Laughter, It's so funny I'm going to get a six pack!Abstract
Laughing stimulates many muscles within the body, in particular those associated with the abdomen. A healthy 30 year old man with a body fat percentage of 29% is used as our exemplary subject. It is deduced that he would need to laugh continuously for 19.7 hours to get a body fat of 10%, the minimum value required for a visible six-pack, and a further 84 minutes for definition. Hence yields an almost impossible value - no joke this funny!
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