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Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by akurilin »

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Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by nordsieck »

spudlyo wrote: post #140
ncphillips wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're goal is fat loss, not cardiovascular health, then lifting weights works just as well as running or using the elliptical, and it is easier on your body if you learn the correct form.

Strap an HR monitor on your chest when you do your next weight lifting routine, have it estimate your calories burned. Spend the same amount of time doing cardio at > 70% of your age predicted HR max. I think you'll find it's not even close. Of course you said fat loss, and perhaps you'll quibble about how much of the calories burned comes from fat vs. muscle, but I think more people are trying to get to a healthy we…

Sure - cardio is more efficient at burning calories than lifting... while you are exercising.

The point is that anaerobic exercise builds muscle, which boosts your basal metabolic rate. Unless you're doing cardio several hours per day, lifting will be much more efficient.

edit: minor word change for clarity.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by akurilin »

robomartin wrote: post #43

While some are able to extract valuable benefit from gyms the vast majority are wasting time and money. In addition to that, most of these articles are very thin on reproducible facts and true research-based data. This is, by far, the most interesting and useful resource I have found when it comes to fitness: http://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Research-Program-Results/... The author covers cellular biology and debunk…

I wish there would be more studies done to support McGuff's theories. I find his ideas (including the ultra-high resistance machines) fascinating, and do hope they turn out to be correct, but I'm also really skeptical of anything that's not been proven by time.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by gbog »

vertr wrote: post #107
gbog wrote: post #57

This article is currently top1 of HN home. It relates with some male's obsessions with their bodies, but has nothing to feed to one's intellectual curiosity. Flagged.

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. The fact that it is on top demonstrates that it is doing the trick.

> The fact that it is on top demonstrates that it is doing the trick.

Demonstrate? Really? What about the other possibilities?

- An uncatched click-ring pulled it up.

- The HN crowd has been tricked to upvote something that do not "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" (would not be the first time).

- This "intellectual curiosity" is misunderstood. I remember a friend's friend who had a big collection of porn. He told us blantly that he did watch them only out of curiosity and interest... Yes. But, you know, I also feel mildly titillated when checking gossips about some topic I am interested in, eg. Mr Facebook wedding pics, and could easily mistake this for "intellectual curiosity gratification", but it is not, or anything is and the filter becomes useless.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by drewrv »

ncphillips wrote: post #128
spudlyo wrote: post #67

Cardio machines are innocent enough, as they won’t actually make you any less fit, but maintaining cardiovascular fitness doesn’t really take much more than breathing uncomfortably hard for about 20 minutes, three times a week. And we all know that swimming, hoops, bike riding, and even Ultimate Frisbee can get the job done, and that treadmills or elliptical trainers are a pale substitute. I think the author is overl…

If you're goal is fat loss, not cardiovascular health, then lifting weights works just as well as running or using the elliptical, and it is easier on your body if you learn the correct form.

> if you learn the correct form

That's a big if. I don't trust myself to do it properly by myself based off a diagram from the internet. What's my alternative? The evil big box gym and overpriced personal trainer?

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by timgluz »

I recommend to read or least checkout Georg Hackenschmidt's book "The way to live" from 1908. It's free and accessible on url: http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/Competition/Hackenschmidt/wtl/wt...

As semi-pro strongman and powerlifter, i've to say that Hackenschmidt's book has been most helpful for me, because it's give good tips about diet, mental preparedness and encouraged to do other sports than just Gym.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by gammarator »

grima wrote: post #91

Amateur marathoner here. Those lying side leg raises with toes pointed down are THE BOMB! Here's a great vid by Strength Running that illustrates that exercise and several more: http://strengthrunning.com/2011/02/the-itb-rehab-routine-vid...

Random slow person here: I had knee pain from running and cycling: physical therapy involved doing the exercises shown in the video, so +1 anecdata.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by discountgenius »

"Yet multiple studies of pre-workout stretching demonstrate that it actually raises your likelihood of injury and lowers your subsequent performance." This was the only claim that surprised me and the only one that didn't provide much of a source. Time to dust of the old search engine, I guess.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)

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Post by psycr »

mattdeboard wrote: post #85
davidtyleryork wrote: post #15

At Betable, four of us do CrossFit. It's not sadistic as the title says, though I'm sure that can depend on the gym. The one in SOMA is pretty supportive and accommodating, probably because they deal with a lot of startup engineers :) Anyway, was struck me about CrossFit and really any group exercise routine is how much more it makes you tax your own body. When you're at the gym, you don't push yourself. You run comf…

I was a crossfitter for about 2 years at the South Bay Crossfit gym (Jason Khalipa's). My big takeaway from that was that olympic lifting is much more fun and rewarding than CF for me. (Note to HN pedants: for me .) The only problem is that it's hard to find a big box with a barbell, let alone two or three. This article has fired me up again.

Huh, that's interesting. I go to a CrossFit affiliate that actually focusses pretty intently on olympic lifts. Each one hour session includes 20 minutes of practicing a specific lift. The two - olympic lifting and CrossFit - have become so intertwined in my mind that it's difficult to imagine one without the other.
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