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Cycling an hour each day is also hard for most people.
400 calories is about half an hour at vigorous effort for most people, or maybe 40 mins at moderate effort.
Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
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Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
#22This article misses a key point: increased muscle mass correlates with increased calorie burn.
Not all exercise is created equal. Exercise that doesn't build muscle is indeed ineffective at burning fat. But exercise that DOES build muscle has a compounding effect on burning fat. Your muscles require more energy to maintain, so they will burn more calories just by existing.
Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
#23The title says "you shouldn't exercise to lose weight", which seems to suggest that exercise will negatively affect your ability to lose weight.
There isn't a single study here that proves this rather lofty hypothesis.
Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It you a eat a lot of fat you will get fat too. Its all about moderation. If you eat 4000 calories of FAT everyday you will get fat.
Not if you burn those same 4000 calories a day.
Unless you're Micheal Jai White[0] or Dwayne Johnson[1], you won't burn 4000 extra (kilo)calories a day.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fylDp1VtZbA&t=2m30s
[1] http://www.muscleandfitness.com/nutrition/meal-plans/smell-w...
Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
#25TLDR; Exercise alone won't help you lose weight, you need to combine exercise and diet changes.
i would say that it's just extremely, extremely difficult to exercise away a bad diet. not impossible, but a strategy that is basically guaranteed to fail if you're a normal person with a normal job and life.
Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
#26This article misses a key point: increased muscle mass correlates with increased calorie burn. Not all exercise is created equal. Exercise that doesn't build muscle is indeed ineffective at burning fat. But exercise that DOES build muscle has a compounding effect on burning fat. Your muscles require more energy to maintain, so they will burn more calories just by existing.
This effect is pretty small. Like 10 calories a day for a pound of muscle (which is quite a bit of muscle to add).
It still matters, a few calories a day for a year ends up being pounds of weight, but adjusting calories out of the diet is going to be a better first strategy.
Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
#27Does anyone actually still think that the extra energy consumption caused by exercise will cause you to lose weight and not just eat more? A more contemporary discussion would include the idea that the different state of being caused by exercise causes less food intake ... which incidentally is true for me personally. It is entirely possible that people that exercise regularly never have any trouble with their weight…
> Does anyone actually still think that the extra energy consumption caused by exercise will cause you to lose weight and not just eat more?
Plenty of people on HN strongly think this.
The nutrition discussion on HN is normally fucking terrible. (See this thread where someone talks about "the science" and links to the Guardian as a reference).
Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
#28But, wait.... #10 - eat less fat? That runs counter to science too... http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-con...
It you a eat a lot of fat you will get fat too. Its all about moderation. If you eat 4000 calories of FAT everyday you will get fat.
Can confirm. Did a year long dirty-bulk on a ketogenic diet while lifting heavy weights, got fat (and didn't really put on that much extra muscle either)...
Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
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Ignoring the fact that moderate exercise will most likely increase your appetite and disturb your body's constant strive to keep homeostasis.
Re: Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
#30This article misses a key point: increased muscle mass correlates with increased calorie burn. Not all exercise is created equal. Exercise that doesn't build muscle is indeed ineffective at burning fat. But exercise that DOES build muscle has a compounding effect on burning fat. Your muscles require more energy to maintain, so they will burn more calories just by existing.
This effect is pretty small. Like 10 calories a day for a pound of muscle (which is quite a bit of muscle to add). It still matters, a few calories a day for a year ends up being pounds of weight, but adjusting calories out of the diet is going to be a better first strategy.
Where are you getting 10 calories per day per pound?
I find that surprisingly low, and that's even if we're talking 100% sedentary here.