Energy expenditure garment

A process for wearing an energy expenditure garment for creating conditions for burning calories comprising placing on a user a resistance garment in the form of a body stocking having elastic resistance elements which offer resistance to the movement of portions of a user's body, placing outer clothing on the user over the resistance garment, the user performing physical activities which are dominantly non-anaerobic while wearing the clothing and the resistance garment wherein the dominantly non-anaerobic physical activities include movement of at least some portion of the body having the resistance garment thereon, anchoring the resistance garment at the wrists and ankles, the resistance elements providing resistance to the movement during the physical activities to tend to burn calories in excess of the calories that are burned during the same physical activities when only the clothing is worn, and wearing the clothing and resistance garment continuously for an extended period of time.

In an energy expenditure garment having a body portion and arms and legs portions wherein elongated elastic resistance elements are included in said garment to provide a force that resists movement of the user to cause the user to expend energy to oppose the force provided by the elastic resistance elements for enhancing the exercise value of a physical activity, the improvement being in that said elongated elastic resistance elements are in said body portion and in said arms and legs portions, said elongated elastic resistance elements being incorporated in a variable resistance fabric, said variable resistance fabric including a plurality of generally parallel first strands, said variable resistance fabric further including a plurality of generally parallel second strands perpendicular to said first strands, said second strands being elastic and having greater resistance force than the resistance force of said first strands, and said second strands comprising said elastic resistance elements.