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You're so right. > * Telling you to "just eat well and exercise". Which is about as useful as telling drug addicts to "just stop using drugs", I like to liken
by MrPatan 5y ago
You're so right.
> * Telling you to "just eat well and exercise". Which is about as useful as telling drug addicts to "just stop using drugs",
I like to liken it to telling poor people that overcoming debt and becoming wealthy is a matter of spending less money than you earn. True and useless!
> 1. Exercise helps you eat well
I've noticed this as well.
Also: I'd like to be proven wrong on this, but I believe the point of exercise that builds muscle is that it increases your energy costs at rest. Muscles are expensive, or we wouldn't lose them. They're pretty useful otherwise! I can't see this fact anywhere though. Is that stupid? So obvious to everyone that nobody even mentions it?
So yeah, do you even lift?
- wodenokoto 5y ago> I'd like to be proven wrong on this, but I believe the point of exercise that builds muscle is that it increases your energy costs at rest ... I can't see this fact anywhere though. Is that stupid? So obvious to everyone that nobody even mentions it? What kind of sources are you looking for? It's pretty common bro science, and often repeated on HN and reddit.
- Jtsummers 5y agoIt's not "bro science", unless you count nearly every government health agency as part of "bro science". More lean muscle mass => higher basal metabolic rate. The bro science part is usually overstating the effectiveness of this, but it's a real effect.
- wodenokoto 5y agoWell, as long as the only source I can give are r/fitness and HN threads I can only show bro science level evidence.
- MrPatan 5y agoExactly. How come it's not given more importance? Is the effect not big enough? Seems to me it's the one that would dominate everything else. You're not-exercising during a bigger part of the day than exercising, after all.