This kind of articles are just another excuse for paralysis by analysis and for people to stay fat.
Most of the time, your metabolism doesn't matter.
And it never matters if you train with high intensity and have a decent muscle mass.
How Sitting For Long Periods Affects Your Metabolism
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#12Very confusing article. At first I thought it is trying to say that if you are sitting for long periods, exercise can be bad for you. What it's actually saying is that more you sit, less effective the exercise is.
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#13I am always conflicted when I see something in here linking to globe n mail, particularly when the article is basically utter garbage, without any amount of research involved in it whatsoever. While there may be truth in there, it is certainly not worthy of even scanning the piece.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you explain this common mistake further? > They're claiming there is no difference between groups because they were unable to show that, if there was an inherent difference, the chance they'd see these results is at most 5%. It seems to me that they're claiming that they failed to reject the null hypothesis, the end. I.e. according to this statistic, there was no significant difference in the means between all gr…
Not OP, but [0]: > If the data do not contradict the null hypothesis, then only a weak conclusion can be made: namely, that the observed data set provides no strong evidence against the null hypothesis. In this case, because the null hypothesis could be true or false, in some contexts this is interpreted as meaning that the data give insufficient evidence to make any conclusion; in other contexts it is interpreted as…
Ah thanks, I understand this aspect. As I say, they simply failed to rejected the null hypothesis, and their approach here seems perfectly valid.
The authors did overreach in their interpretation of the result. But OP said ANOVA is wrong, and that the alpha value is wrong. I don't understand how they can say this without understanding this domain, the intervention, and knowing what effect size could be expected. Maybe α=0.05 is perfectly reasonable here.
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#15Very confusing article. At first I thought it is trying to say that if you are sitting for long periods, exercise can be bad for you. What it's actually saying is that more you sit, less effective the exercise is.
Maybe this explains why exercise never makes me feel "better" just more tired.
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#1613 hrs is a f*ton of sitting even for an office job. Anyway I was just given a standing desk and I feel way better at 5PM.
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#17Very confusing article. At first I thought it is trying to say that if you are sitting for long periods, exercise can be bad for you. What it's actually saying is that more you sit, less effective the exercise is.
Maybe this explains why exercise never makes me feel "better" just more tired.
Do you stick with it on a regular schedule?
No science here, but anecdotally if I've been slacking off on exercise and then restart, I feel pretty tired/terrible at first. After a few weeks of regular routine exercise though, it flips and I feel tired/terrible when I don't exercise and energized when I do exercise.
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#18The study in question limited participants to 4,000 steps a day for four days. That's an absurdly low level of exercise to undertake.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe this explains why exercise never makes me feel "better" just more tired.
Do you stick with it on a regular schedule? No science here, but anecdotally if I've been slacking off on exercise and then restart, I feel pretty tired/terrible at first. After a few weeks of regular routine exercise though, it flips and I feel tired/terrible when I don't exercise and energized when I do exercise.
Same. About three weeks of consistent exercise (three times a week) and I'm back in, "fighting" shape. Those three weeks suck but after that, it almost sucks not to work out.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe this explains why exercise never makes me feel "better" just more tired.
Do you stick with it on a regular schedule? No science here, but anecdotally if I've been slacking off on exercise and then restart, I feel pretty tired/terrible at first. After a few weeks of regular routine exercise though, it flips and I feel tired/terrible when I don't exercise and energized when I do exercise.
I have the same experience. My threshold seems to be about 8 days - meaning that I can resume exercise more or less ok after slacking (or being ill) for 8 days, but after 10 days it costs a lot more and I feel worse afterwards. Of course it is more like a ramp than a binary thing, but there's a "step" around the 9th day in the graph.