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Discussing outliers on nearly every topic these days does get exhausting. Everyone knows if you are Michael Phelps you can eat 8,000 calories a day and not gai
by phil21 3y ago
Discussing outliers on nearly every topic these days does get exhausting.
Everyone knows if you are Michael Phelps you can eat 8,000 calories a day and not gain weight. It's just not interesting to discuss.
What is actually useful is advice to real people. You cannot outrun the fork. If you are a hobby distance cyclist racking up 600 miles/week, these types of articles and advice is simply not for you as it obviously does not apply.
And to be honest? This sort of thing is really non-obvious to many people. I've witnessed many folks in my life who spend hours in the gym who quite literally think that means they can have that donut no problem - not realizing they just wiped out that hour workout plus 50% more in that single act.
The energy efficiency of human beings is not intuitive to many, including myself.
It may be hyperbolic - but for 90% of the population stating something like "absolutely nothing else matters for weight loss other than diet" is a true statement.
- david-gpu 3y agoI am talking explicitly about amateur endurance athletes, who may be doing 5 or 6 hours of exercise per week, not Olympians. And the point I'm trying to make is that there are likely higher-order effects from exercise well beyond the number of calories burn during that exercise. Whether it is because endurance exercise improves mitochondrial efficiency, or insulin sensitivity, or basal metabolic rate, the matter of fact is that there are plenty of ordinary people who struggled with their weight and see significant long-term weight loss as long as they continue performing a few hours of endurance exercise per week. Go talk to people in your nearest amateur cycling club if you don't believe me.