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Your version is a little low on the drinking calories in my opinion. I was skinny as a rail until my wife and I got together when I was 23 and started going to reverse happy hour at TGIFridays, Applebees, etc pretty much every night. Add drinking roughly another six pack most nights after the reverse happy hour along with smoking weed + more munchies and I never had a chance no matter how much exercise I did. I proba…
Six beers AFTER happy hour?
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For hundreds of thousands of people it’s not true. That is not an exaggeration in numbers. Handwaving away large numbers data points that disprove a theory is not how science is supposed to work. And as we have seen in this thread, the lack of clarity on the nuance discourages people from making exercise. Over simplifying it to 600 burned, 600 saved later is harmful and also inaccurate. (and yes More inaccurate than…
Also an endurance runner and read Pontzer's book. I do enough running for my wife to get pissed off! I agree with you that there's definitely more work which needs doing to understand metabolism in the context of endurance athletes. I don't think his work is outright nonsense though. Here's something to think about... I ran 21 km yesterday, in zone 2, in a fairly glycogen depleted state. That was about 4:30min/km for…
After about a year of dancing, I had a moment where I needed to run after someone about a half kilometer away. It was incredible- I’d never felt so buoyant while running. After I passed the message on, I decided to do a measured run. I ran a six minute mile in my late twenties with zero warm-up after having not run in over a decade. I wasn’t even out of breath, it was fucking easy. Cardio is a life hack.
You see this often with middle class city people in their late 20s and 30s. You go from being athletic in high school and walking all day in college to suddenly being in your prime dating age, regularly out eating and drinking with friends or dates, hitting 2-3 cocktails a few nights a week. You start investing more into your ultra-sedentary career, which you drive to, which constantly requires more of your time to g…
In a sense I am thankful I graduated into the covid lockdowns. It made this dramatic change obvious to me, and I made a similarly dramatic change in my diet. I went from literally having a buffet every meal in college to having a cup of coffee for breakfast, and what I would consider a normal sized meal for dinner. I realized after about 2 years of this that I was borderline under-weight, so I decided to start eating…