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Tell that to all the skinny endurance weekend warriors who fuel their exercise with huge amounts of sugary drinks and gummy bears. If you are curious, read abou

Tell that to all the skinny endurance weekend warriors who fuel their exercise with huge amounts of sugary drinks and gummy bears. If you are curious, read about the function of GLUT4 in the membrane of skeletal muscles. Reality is more complex than memetic one-liners.

senko 1y ago
I will as soon as I see any of them gobble up a smothered burrito or Chicago pizza on their run. Do we really want to compare ultramarathon runners with couch potatoes?
- linguistbreaker 1y ago
  i believe pineapple pizza is a favorite and they'll eat the whole damn thing.
- cookiengineer 1y ago
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- david-gpu 1y ago
  > I will as soon as I see any of them gobble up a smothered burrito or Chicago pizza on their run. I gather that you have never met an endurance cyclist. Randonneurs are notorious for devouring whatever they can find when they stop for lunch.
_Algernon_ 1y ago
Obviously professional athletes or people who otherwise have an extremely active lifestile can afford to eat more. The obese people and sedentary office workers don't and would need to train for months to be able to out-run a single piece of cake on a regular basis without injury. The phrase is good advice for that group of people.
- david-gpu 1y ago
  The point is not that they can eat more. It's that they can gobble large quantities of straight up sugar without developing metabolic disease. To quantify this, on a weekly long ride they may consume 300g of refined sugar, far far beyond the often recommended limit of 20g of sugar per day. So perhaps the sedentary person would benefit from walking or leisurely cycling to work a whole more than by trying to restrict their diet
snapcaster 1y ago
Dedicated athletes are obviously not who we're talking about so why bring it up?
- david-gpu 1y ago
  So you can't run away from a bad diet... Except when you can, but that is "obviously not who we are talking about". Maybe that meme needs to die for good, instead.
  - snapcaster 1y ago
    So you really think the people being told "you can't outrun a bad diet" would be served by knowing if they adopted the lifestyle of an olympian they would lose weight? a narrow fixation on edge cases while ignoring the (correct) larger point is weird
    - david-gpu 1y ago
      >> weekend warriors >> So perhaps the sedentary person would benefit from walking or leisurely cycling to work a whole more than by trying to restrict their diet

senko 1y ago

I will as soon as I see any of them gobble up a smothered burrito or Chicago pizza on their run. Do we really want to compare ultramarathon runners with couch potatoes?

linguistbreaker 1y ago
i believe pineapple pizza is a favorite and they'll eat the whole damn thing.
cookiengineer 1y ago
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david-gpu 1y ago
> I will as soon as I see any of them gobble up a smothered burrito or Chicago pizza on their run. I gather that you have never met an endurance cyclist. Randonneurs are notorious for devouring whatever they can find when they stop for lunch.

_Algernon_ 1y ago

Obviously professional athletes or people who otherwise have an extremely active lifestile can afford to eat more. The obese people and sedentary office workers don't and would need to train for months to be able to out-run a single piece of cake on a regular basis without injury. The phrase is good advice for that group of people.

david-gpu 1y ago
The point is not that they can eat more. It's that they can gobble large quantities of straight up sugar without developing metabolic disease. To quantify this, on a weekly long ride they may consume 300g of refined sugar, far far beyond the often recommended limit of 20g of sugar per day. So perhaps the sedentary person would benefit from walking or leisurely cycling to work a whole more than by trying to restrict their diet

snapcaster 1y ago

Dedicated athletes are obviously not who we're talking about so why bring it up?

david-gpu 1y ago
So you can't run away from a bad diet... Except when you can, but that is "obviously not who we are talking about". Maybe that meme needs to die for good, instead.
- snapcaster 1y ago
  So you really think the people being told "you can't outrun a bad diet" would be served by knowing if they adopted the lifestyle of an olympian they would lose weight? a narrow fixation on edge cases while ignoring the (correct) larger point is weird
  - david-gpu 1y ago
    >> weekend warriors >> So perhaps the sedentary person would benefit from walking or leisurely cycling to work a whole more than by trying to restrict their diet