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My personal observations: a lot of people who think they exercise actually do not. While they may be physically located in a facility that describes itself as
by tjogin 17y ago
My personal observations: a lot of people who think they exercise actually do not.
While they may be physically located in a facility that describes itself as a gym, and while they may be moving their body and limbs to some degree, they don't make an effort. They don't put in any work.
Walking on a treadmill for fifteen minutes, using about the same amount of energy as it took them to even get to the gym is not sufficient.
Using machines or free weights at about the weight of the gallon of milk they habitually lift every day is not sufficient.
You have to put in the work. Whether you want to burn calories or build muscle, there is no short-cut to get around this fact.
Another wonderful mistake is to not work out properly because you don't want to expose yourself to the risk of accidently putting on too much muscle mass — sort of like not walking home too fast because you don't want to accidentally break the landspeed record.
- gamble 17y agoThe average man living a sedentary lifestyle needs about 2000-2500 calories a day to maintain his weight. Another man, doing 8-12 hours of hard physical labor per day, needs about 3500-4000 calories. The truth is that what most people think of as 'exercise' is an order of magnitude less than what you'd need for physical activity to have a significant effect on your weight. A candy bar or frappucino easily replaces the calories burned in a gym workout, no matter how high intensity it is.
- unalone 17y agoWhen I stopped eating junk food I was astonished at how much I could snack and not gain any weight. It took almost no dieting to start to drop weight.
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- HeyLaughingBoy 17y agoPretty much spot on. I have a friend (a one-time business partner, actually) who used to work as a gym assistant in exchange for a "free" membership. Her job was basically to teach people how to use the machines and give some basic pointers on form. She constantly had women coming up to her asking, "You have a really great body. I need to know what kind of exercise I should do to look like you, but I don't want to sweat." Her response was usually a more polite version of "WTF!!! You're not going to get any benefit from the exercise unless you actually DO WORK!!!" Suffice to say that once they realized how much effort (and sweat!!) she had to expend to maintain her rather muscular physique, they lost interest.