Fitness and Whatnot
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Starting strength is straight up legit.
Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
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@Luna Legit is no longer a thing... YOU AREN'T BRINGING IT BACK!
Then when it's all over and the rest of you are ready for Dead Animal Pickup, I'm gonna go balls deep into Dahl. But only because she asked me to. Sweet-like. - Riddick (2013)
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@ThatOneDude said:
@Luna Legit is no longer a thing... YOU AREN'T BRINGING IT BACK!
This is what getting old is like.
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Haters gonna hate.
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@ThatOneDude said:
@Luna Legit is no longer a thing... YOU AREN'T BRINGING IT BACK!
This seems legit
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Nerd fitness is doing a 6 week challenge starting on June 8th. I though someone might want to do it with me! Also, found a great article for those of us with flat butts.
Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
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I just started trying to eliminate my paunch last Friday. I think it was doing a weightloss set on a bike in the gym that had a calorie counter that changed my mindset on a lot of things. I sat there and stared at it: 30 minutes on a 6 mile 'ride' and I'd only burned about 150 calories. I can eat 150 calories in seconds with handfuls of junk food.
I find it hard not to start looking at how much energy is going into me on a daily basis now. Wish me luck, I have forty pounds to drop.
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@Luna One of the things I dislike about motivational pages meant for women in which they show pictures of females in bodybuilding competitions is that they propagate the (hilariously false) impression that working out will 'make them' too muscular.
The same stands for men as well of course although many males wouldn't have a problem with being too jacked, but for some women it could actually make them think twice before participating. It's a non-factor since, unless someone knows exactly what they're doing (and actively works hard toward it), their bodies will never look remotely the way a bodybuilder's does even if they're following a full lifting regime but it can still be an issue with some.
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@Arkandel True. You will not get jacked without setting out to get jacked on purpose. That wasn't a motivational page though, it's a workout developed by that chick for your butt to make it bigger and rounder.
@JaySherman Isn't that just the worst?! I eat under my BMR though and never eat back exercise calories. I went from morbidly obese (the shame and horror!!!) to now just 20 over weight. 70 pounds and counting! You can do it! My final goal is 30 pounds away!
Fun? What is this fun thou speakest of?
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@JaySherman said:
I just started trying to eliminate my paunch last Friday. I think it was doing a weightloss set on a bike in the gym that had a calorie counter that changed my mindset on a lot of things. I sat there and stared at it: 30 minutes on a 6 mile 'ride' and I'd only burned about 150 calories. I can eat 150 calories in seconds with handfuls of junk food.
I find it hard not to start looking at how much energy is going into me on a daily basis now. Wish me luck, I have forty pounds to drop.
A lot of the energy that you take in during the day goes into just -being alive-, though. Building muscle also burns more calories by default (most of them are burned by the brain, however). So... yeah. 150 calories might not seem like much, but it's really quite a bit.
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@Luna said:
@JaySherman Isn't that just the worst?! I eat under my BMR though and never eat back exercise calories. I went from morbidly obese (the shame and horror!!!) to now just 20 over weight. 70 pounds and counting! You can do it! My final goal is 30 pounds away!
Amazing. Keep going!
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I went off some medication a few months ago and it seems my hormones are now hella out of whack.
On the one hand, I feel like a bloated fat pig and don't want to do anything about because blah blah doom and gloom, woe. /Eeyore
On the other, I bought a bike on a whim to help fix Eeyore feelings. I've gone on a few bike rides, and man...I forgot how much exercising (at least after the fact) feels good. Now I just need to find the energy to keep doing it, even if I'm so out of shape I can hardly make it a mile, haha.
Also, guys. You can totally forget how to ride a bike. My scraped knee says so.
Other than the general motivation of not feeling like shit anymore, anyone have any bike riding tips on what worked for you? Keeping up with the habit while still working on your feet all day?
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@thebird said:
I went off some medication a few months ago and it seems my hormones are now hella out of whack.
On the one hand, I feel like a bloated fat pig and don't want to do anything about because blah blah doom and gloom, woe. /Eeyore
On the other, I bought a bike on a whim to help fix Eeyore feelings. I've gone on a few bike rides, and man...I forgot how much exercising (at least after the fact) feels good. Now I just need to find the energy to keep doing it, even if I'm so out of shape I can hardly make it a mile, haha.
Also, guys. You can totally forget how to ride a bike. My scraped knee says so.
Other than the general motivation of not feeling like shit anymore, anyone have any bike riding tips on what worked for you? Keeping up with the habit while still working on your feet all day?
Do you work far from home or too close? If your work is bike-distance, go to and from work on your bike. Just that. It'll be difficult at first, but you'll get used to it, and it will help you shed excess weight easily.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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Although that's true, losing excess weight is a matter of diet regulation a whole lot more than adding additional exercise.
Life isn't fair. We can eat calories way easier and faster than we can consume their energy.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel said:
Although that's true, losing excess weight is a matter of diet regulation a whole lot more than adding additional exercise.
Life isn't fair. We can eat calories way easier and faster than we can consume their energy.
Depending on the stretch, someone who doesn't gorge themselves every day can keep fit with just a bike ride to and from work. It also has to do with metabolism. The older you get, the less it will work.
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@Arkandel said:
Although that's true, losing excess weight is a matter of diet regulation a whole lot more than adding additional exercise.
Actually, it's a matter of both, in equal measure. Simply, if energy spent > energy gained, you'll lose weight.
Diet regulation is tricky, sure, but adding exercise can make diet regulation less critical. Plus, you aren't going to lose weight if you crash on calories, and do nothing because you have no bloody energy.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said:
@Arkandel said:
Although that's true, losing excess weight is a matter of diet regulation a whole lot more than adding additional exercise.
Actually, it's a matter of both, in equal measure. Simply, if energy spent > energy gained, you'll lose weight.
Diet regulation is tricky, sure, but adding exercise can make diet regulation less critical. Plus, you aren't going to lose weight if you crash on calories, and do nothing because you have no bloody energy.
It's not nearly that simple. If your energy lost is greater than your energy gained, more often than not you'll end up storing additional fat and losing muscle mass, which is weight loss, yes, but bad weight loss. You don't want your body to think it's going into starvation mode, because it absolutely will burn muscle mass before fat stores in most instances, because muscle mass is more energy dense.. There are tricky bits to this whole weight loss thing that
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There are a ton of articles and resources out there. I'll just drop one here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/upshot/to-lose-weight-eating-less-is-far-more-important-than-exercising-more.html .
For starters you're of course right - it's literally, inescapably a matter of calories in versus calories out. Anything else would violate the principle of conservation of energy.
And I of course agree that a combination of a healthier diet and regular exercise works better than either on its own.However what it comes down to is that cutting calories is by very far more efficient than increasing exercise if one's goal is fat loss.
Any loss of energy (which is debatable - most people experience an excess of it after they start losing fat) as a detriment is countered by the chance for injuries when one tries to work out at a higher rate while overweight and/or out of shape.
A commonly quoted rule of thumb (it's only that, but it's not a bad average) is that a deficit of 3500 calories per week leads to one pound of fat loss. To burn those 500 calories on a daily basis one would need to go at it pretty hard ( http://www.nutristrategy.com/fitness/cycling.htm has a table on that, obviously it's also not entirely accurate universally but it helps as a quick guide), or to eat fewer carbs. An advantage of the latter is that it's easier to not eat those extra cookies through different life circumstances, weather conditions or through personal health issues than it is to dedicate an hour+ of each day to exercise.
As the old axiom has it, six-packs aren't made in the gym, they're made in the kitchen.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel Yeah, when I started measuring my snack food by how many hours on the sweat machine it would take to burn away, I started eating pretty healthy.
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@Arkandel said:
However what it comes down to is that cutting calories is by very far more efficient than increasing exercise if one's goal is fat loss.
This is very, very debatable, and, frankly, I disagree for the reasons presented by @Derp. Reducing your calories may actually lead to fat gain, but weight loss from atrophied muscle. Exercise therefore is critical to the weight loss people actually seek to achieve.
As the old axiom has it, six-packs aren't made in the gym, they're made in the kitchen.
It's an axiom, but that doesn't make it correct. All of those starving kids overseas don't have six-packs for a reason. When they say that six-packs are made in the kitchen, they probably mean that six-packs are the result of smart eating choices, which does not necessarily mean fewer calories.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
