Hard at work on the follow-up to Akdong Musician's 2014 debut album "Play," vocalist Lee Soohyun of the brother-sister duo has lost over 15 pounds thanks to an all-vegetarian diet and regular exercise. "She wasn't fat, so nobody recommended that she should go on a diet," a representative for Akdong Musician's label YG Entertainment told the Korean news agency Osen. "But she wanted to lose weight so badly and was so determined. That's why she worked on losing weight and on their new album at the same time." Though a press release from YG Entertainment quoting the Osen interview that posted to the label's website on Monday, makes it pretty clear where Soohyun could have gotten the idea that she needed to lose weight. "Before, she was a bit chubby, but losing 15 pounds for a girl of her height, 5' 5, made all the difference," the label press release read. Akdong Musician originally rose to fame in 2013 after winning the second season of "K-pop Star," a live televised music competition produced by the Seoul Broadcasting System.

In addition to dropping the AKMU album the following year, Lee also teamed up with YG labelmates Lee Hi, (whose solo album "Soulite" came out last month) and Bobby of the boy band iKon on the single "I'm Different" under the moniker of Hi Suhyun. Her Akdong Musician bandmate brother's reaction to the single could have something to do with why more Soohyun collaborations haven't happened. "My brother was pretending to be okay; he was giving off the attitude of not caring of what we do," the singer said in a 2014 interview, according to the Korean entertainment website allkpop. "He said, 'my way and your way are different,' and looked like he really didn't care. Rather than jealousy, he was more disappointed from an artist's point of view. In terms of music, there are a lot of things that Akdong Musician has to show, but he was worried that my image would be wasted through Hi Soohyun." The second Akdong Musician album is slated for release on YG Entertainment on May 2.

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She started by revealing, "I diet… After School's Nana reveals her true weight on 'Weekly Idol' After School's Nana recently revealed her true weight on the special 1-year anniversary episode of MBC Every1's 'Weekly Idol'. YG Entertainment unveils their promotional plans for the rest of the year YG Entertainment has multiple projects lined up for the latter half of 2016.There is common assumption that more exercise is better. What if I told you that you could get lean, lose body fat, and build muscle by exercising less? Well, that’s exactly what I did. Read on to see how. If getting lean were as straightforward as lacing up your shoes hopping on the treadmill, you wouldn’t see so many chubby runners. Many people exercise, experience cravings as a result, eat a ton, and never lose weight. It’s not their fault – they’re just doing it wrong.The actual caloric burn of aerobic exercise often doesn’t offset the post-exercise binge. To put it into perspective, an hour on the treadmill burns off approximately one Starbucks muffin.

More cardio is not the answer. But you don’t need to grind it out on the Stairmaster or powerlift with the gym rats to achieve remarkable results. Exercise is not about “burning off” calories or punishing yourself – it’s about achieving hormonal and metabolic changes within the body that maximize fat burning and muscle toning with the minimum amount of stress on the body as possible. If we’re talking about a dose of medicine, a small amount has no significant effect, while a large amount is fatal. The dose-response model below shows the effect caused by differing levels of exposure (or doses) to a stressor (usually a chemical) after a certain exposure time. The dose-response model can be applied to exercise, as well. Make no mistake: exercise is a stressor. Borrowing from the world of pharmacology, I think of exercise as a “dose:” too little has no significant effect while too much is harmful. However, it’s worth noting that some exercise is infinitely better than none.

Zero exercise has a negative effect, so we could argue that the curve should start in “negative” territory. But for simplicity’s sake, let’s start at “neutral.” As you can see, a relatively minimal amount of exercise can produce optimal results. But while some exercise produces a positive effect, too much will result in net negative effects (marathoners beware). The dose-response model can be applied to the following concepts, as well: If you jump in the water on a sticky day, you get wet (the minimum effective dose). Shooting yourself in the face with a Super-Soaker won’t make you any wetter. But it might sting a little. Same with nutrition and exercise. To stick with the example of protein above, eating more than the “minimum effective dose” of protein does not result in increased muscle growth. Once you hit the minimum, you hit a biochemical bottleneck where “more” is simply wasteful. So put down your protein shake, champ. Think of exercise not as a period of time to “burn off” calories, but as a stimulus that spurs your body to burn fat and build muscle.

So if more isn’t better, how do you achieve optimal results? The goal is to maximize the net positive effects of exercise before reaching the point of diminishing returns. An optimal dose of exercise produces desired hormonal and physiological response with the minimum amount of stress.Short bursts of intense exercise and occasionally lifting heavy things. In one of my many experiments guinea-pigging on myself, I wanted to see how my body responded to different levels and types of training. After finishing in the top 3% of runners in my second marathon in 2 months, I shifted to shorter distances and prioritize sprints and finished in the top 4% of the 10k a few weeks later –  a similar level of relative competitiveness. Since I was exercising more (running 50 miles a week versus less than 10) with a very solid finish time, many assumed that my body would be optimized when I was in tip-top marathon shape. The results are far more interesting. The picture on the left shows me just before finishing my second marathon in two months (running 50 miles a week with no sprints).

The picture on the right shows me just a few weeks later after I reduced my mileage to less than 5-10 miles a week and began incorporating sprints… By switching from cardio to sprints, I shed body fat and increased lean muscle by 10 pounds. My body regained healthy color and a more masculine shape. I felt tons better. Even my face changed… from being Sam-the-Eagle-from-Sesame-Street-skinny to a healthy “normal.” All from exercising much less. Have you ever noticed that most endurance athletes are rail-thin, pale, and look a little unhealthy? But what about athletes that are required to perform short bursts of maximum output, like sprinters? This is what happens when you run too much: your body doesn’t know you are running a marathon or if you’ve just been run over by a truck.  So your hormones go wacky, your fight/flight response is heightened, and your body pumps you full of stress hormones. For long-term training, fat loss, and health, this is all bad news.

Because it’s always trying to recover from what you just did to it and protecting itself from whatever might happen next, your befuddled body never has a chance to heal. As a result, your body gleefully eats away at your muscle. Endurance training sends a signal to become more energy efficient and use more fat as fuel, while high intensity training sends the muscles an adaptive signal to become bigger and stronger and more efficient using glucose for fuel. With high amounts of endurance training you are at a higher risk of fat storage due to starvation response and associated metabolic slowdown when not replenishing enough calories after a long run (not to mention fat gain after overdoing it with post-exercise binges – try to not eat an entire pie after a marathon – I dare you). So stop the frustrating, endless cycle of jogging, stuffing your face, and cursing your stubborn belly fat. If you want results, find an exercise you enjoy, train hard (for short amounts of time), and expect success.