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Most people are achieving weight loss by dietary changes. It takes a massive amount of exercise to significantly alter your calorie balance. Definitely good for
by chrisco255 4mo ago
Most people are achieving weight loss by dietary changes. It takes a massive amount of exercise to significantly alter your calorie balance. Definitely good for you either way but most people who exercise also want to be toned or muscular.
- pandaman 3mo agoDefine "massive". People do successfully and reliably get in shape through exercise. Aerobic exercise that gets HR up for an hour or more will significantly alter your calorie balance. I agree that more people don't go through exercise rote though.
- padjo 3mo agoAn hour of fairly vigorous cardio every day will give you what, 3-400 kcals of extra calories to play around? Something you can easily overcome by eating a donut, which you will absolutely crave after that hour and feel you deserve. Exercise is absolutely useless for weight loss if it isn't coupled with a controlled diet.
- pandaman 3mo ago>An hour of fairly vigorous cardio every day will give you what, 3-400 kcals of extra calories to play around? This depends on your VO2max/FTP. At very modest 150W FTP it would be ~550 kcal. > Something you can easily overcome by eating a donut Don't eat a donut then? It's not like donuts randomly fly into your mouth and you have no control. >Exercise is absolutely useless for weight loss if it isn't coupled with a controlled diet. That's obvious. It's not "absolutely" useless as it will take much more effort to gorge on food (e.g. I don't know anyone who would be able to eat a donut after an hour of a vigorous exercise, least crave one) and you also have less time to stuff your face and think of snacks. But it's entirely possible to still overeat while exercising.