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The health benefits of exercise come from "conditioning" sessions, not watching some ill-informed calorie meter. Exercise makes you fitter and healthier by hitt

The health benefits of exercise come from "conditioning" sessions, not watching some ill-informed calorie meter. Exercise makes you fitter and healthier by hitting progressive overload. Meaning it has to be difficult, nay unpleasant, and thus done rather infrequently to allow plenty of recovery time. cbass.com has this stuff dialed in. One im-gonna-puke strength session a week and one difficult endurance "cardio" session makes a ton of sense to me, when you take in the literature. Much more and exercise starts to look like a net negative in many ways. Suggesting to a fatty that they jog five times a week is at best a waste of time and at worst actively harmful.

DanBC 12y ago
I posted a link to an internationally reputable organisation who do gold standard meta analysis. You? My neuro-atypicality means I geniunely don't know if you're trolling and yours is a parody post, or if you actually think cbass.com - a comercial site selling get fit quick dvds and books - is a reputable cite. One question: if they have it "dialed in" why are they selling ten different books?
- vinceguidry 12y ago
  Your gold standard meta-analysis is useless for the purposes of someone actually trying to lose weight. It merely takes the position that diet and exercise produce better outcomes than either alone. That tells us nothing about which has the more powerful effect. Anybody who's actually tried, and succeeded, in losing weight and keeping it off will tell you that diet is way more important than exercise when it comes to fat loss. Exercise absolutely produces health benefits, but they are largely orthogonal to the ones produced by changing how you eat. If you can do one but not the other, then diet. Most people with a lot of weight to lose have willpower problems, that's why they have a lot of weight in the first place. Not all, but most. These people are better served conserving their willpower and taking more effective courses of action than the one they can't take. (both diet and exercise)
  - DanBC 12y ago
    Did you read the paper? You start by saying it's useless; then you repeat what it says.

DanBC 12y ago

I posted a link to an internationally reputable organisation who do gold standard meta analysis. You? My neuro-atypicality means I geniunely don't know if you're trolling and yours is a parody post, or if you actually think cbass.com - a comercial site selling get fit quick dvds and books - is a reputable cite. One question: if they have it "dialed in" why are they selling ten different books?

vinceguidry 12y ago
Your gold standard meta-analysis is useless for the purposes of someone actually trying to lose weight. It merely takes the position that diet and exercise produce better outcomes than either alone. That tells us nothing about which has the more powerful effect. Anybody who's actually tried, and succeeded, in losing weight and keeping it off will tell you that diet is way more important than exercise when it comes to fat loss. Exercise absolutely produces health benefits, but they are largely orthogonal to the ones produced by changing how you eat. If you can do one but not the other, then diet. Most people with a lot of weight to lose have willpower problems, that's why they have a lot of weight in the first place. Not all, but most. These people are better served conserving their willpower and taking more effective courses of action than the one they can't take. (both diet and exercise)
- DanBC 12y ago
  Did you read the paper? You start by saying it's useless; then you repeat what it says.