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Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by mkramlich »

emeltzer wrote: post #10

Prisoners are among the most fit people in the world, despite an absence of good machines, good diet, coaches, and instructional material. If you want to be fit, start exercising--a nice way to get started is to truly understand that any kind of exercise is very much better than doing nothing.

They also have incredible incentive to get in shape, and a ton of free time to kill, and tend to have problems with aggression. That adds up. And your own personal muscle mass and melee fighting capability is pretty much the only weapon the prison allows you to have.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by someperson »

mkramlich wrote: post #30

I sometimes wish we could delete the entire fitness industry from the world and replace it with a few lines of text, something like this: eat right, exercise, get adequate sleep, reduce stress, get variety, use natural motions, breathe deep, get yourself winded intentionally from time to time, when in doubt walk, etc. The vast majority of people probably never need to go near a fancy weight machine or even lift artif…

Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit.

By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment, or something else?

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by mkramlich »

someperson wrote: post #32
mkramlich wrote: post #30

I sometimes wish we could delete the entire fitness industry from the world and replace it with a few lines of text, something like this: eat right, exercise, get adequate sleep, reduce stress, get variety, use natural motions, breathe deep, get yourself winded intentionally from time to time, when in doubt walk, etc. The vast majority of people probably never need to go near a fancy weight machine or even lift artif…

Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit. By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment, or something else?

ie. go running. do jumping jacks. get your heart and lung going. push yourself beyond what your cardio system needs to do under normal/static conditions.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by msy »

Given he calls Crossfit sadistic it's ironic he's basically describing it. Free weights, core strength, a focus on overall fitness and all aspects thereof over abstract weight numbers. It's not complicated and plenty of people know it.

Hyperbolic headlines are intensely irritating.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by yogipatel »

someperson wrote: post #32
mkramlich wrote: post #30

I sometimes wish we could delete the entire fitness industry from the world and replace it with a few lines of text, something like this: eat right, exercise, get adequate sleep, reduce stress, get variety, use natural motions, breathe deep, get yourself winded intentionally from time to time, when in doubt walk, etc. The vast majority of people probably never need to go near a fancy weight machine or even lift artif…

Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit. By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment, or something else?

Something else — the feeling you get after some kind of strenuous activity that raises your heart/breathing rate. Running, for example.

What you're referring to is getting the wind knocked out of you.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by jpr »

someperson wrote: post #32
mkramlich wrote: post #30

I sometimes wish we could delete the entire fitness industry from the world and replace it with a few lines of text, something like this: eat right, exercise, get adequate sleep, reduce stress, get variety, use natural motions, breathe deep, get yourself winded intentionally from time to time, when in doubt walk, etc. The vast majority of people probably never need to go near a fancy weight machine or even lift artif…

Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit. By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment, or something else?

I think he means more along the lines of "exhausted from exercise".

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by IDisposableHero »

someperson wrote: post #32
mkramlich wrote: post #30

I sometimes wish we could delete the entire fitness industry from the world and replace it with a few lines of text, something like this: eat right, exercise, get adequate sleep, reduce stress, get variety, use natural motions, breathe deep, get yourself winded intentionally from time to time, when in doubt walk, etc. The vast majority of people probably never need to go near a fancy weight machine or even lift artif…

Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit. By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment, or something else?

They almost certainly don't mean "punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment", but rather "exercise (e.g. run) hard enough to lose your breath for a moment"

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by dagw »

yogipatel wrote: post #35
someperson wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forgive my ignorance but how exactly does being winded help somebody become fit. By getting yourself winded do you mean being punched in the stomach hard enough to lose your breath for a moment, or something else?

Something else — the feeling you get after some kind of strenuous activity that raises your heart/breathing rate. Running, for example. What you're referring to is getting the wind knocked out of you.

For what it's worth I've never heard what you describe called "winded". To me winded means getting the wind knocked out of you. I wonder if it is a regional thing.

Re: Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie

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Post by zzygan »

msy wrote: post #34

Given he calls Crossfit sadistic it's ironic he's basically describing it. Free weights, core strength, a focus on overall fitness and all aspects thereof over abstract weight numbers. It's not complicated and plenty of people know it. Hyperbolic headlines are intensely irritating.

So true. I've only fairly recently gotten into crossfit, and although it is very hard, and very intense, everything he talks about the article is focused on, comes up in various crossfit workouts, as well as a hell of a lot more stuff that makes you so much more versitile than just strength. The thing i hate about crossfit is the "coach" thing, but that must be something I just dont get.
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