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Running is not great for losing weight, so I'm having doubts about this one...
It's been pretty effective for me. What are better ways of losing weight?
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Running is not great for losing weight, so I'm having doubts about this one...
> Running is not great for losing weight Since when? I'd like a citation on that.
You have to run about 1 mile to burn 100 calories. Skipping a 1000 calorie lunch is the equivalent of running 10 miles when it comes to weight loss.
Put another way, without a diet change, you would have to run about 35 miles to lose just 1 pound of fat.
Running is good for the heart and lungs. For weight loss, not so much.
Is 11 people a really small sample size for a study like this?
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I'm also 27. When I was about 11 my left knee collapsed and I was diagnosed with Osgood Schlatter syndrome - the "syndrome" part of the name makes it sound a genetic, I don't believe it strictly is - it's just when the tendon tears off your patella. Anyway, recovered from that with physio. Later, teenage years, I was also diagnosed with flat feet, needed orthotics. I don't wear them now, I probably should though as m…
Thanks for the shaming brah
A friend's parents stopped talking to him and shamed him because he applied for a handicap parking permit (doctor recommended). He can't walk much more than 100 feet without agonizing pain. He's 28. The father's words were something like "how will you feel when you are taking away that parking spot from an elderly person who really needs it?"
I hope it gets better.
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There are plenty of compelling arguments against excessive running: 1) It is destructive to your joints and tendons. Injury rates are very high among runners. 2) It is stressful, resulting in chronically elevated cortisol levels. 3) It is time consuming and boring (of course this is subjective), and very inefficient at improving fitness.
Anything done excessively can be unhealthy, by definition, but there's only a grain of truth to what you're saying. To your point 1: done properly, running isn't particularly harmful to joints and tendons, and some studies even seem to show that running can be beneficial in that regard[1]. The rapid changes in direction that cause the most stress are less prevalent in running than just about any other sport, not even…
As this described by the NYT (maybe the original paper describes it better?), there's all sorts of problems with this conclusion: - A very small sample size - Confounding factors: one group consists of collegiate runners (i.e., college students), and another consists of "young men" i.e., presumably men who didn't necessarily go to college. Even if both groups consisted entirely of college students, there might be oth…
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Anything done excessively can be unhealthy, by definition, but there's only a grain of truth to what you're saying. To your point 1: done properly, running isn't particularly harmful to joints and tendons, and some studies even seem to show that running can be beneficial in that regard[1]. The rapid changes in direction that cause the most stress are less prevalent in running than just about any other sport, not even…
The person you responded to never said that exercise is bad, or that being fit isn't important. They simply were responding to the statement that they had never heard an argument that running could be bad. You really jumped to conclusions by assuming they were saying exercise is not valuable.
Defining our terms is critical in conversation (and something I probably need to work on as well).
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Thanks for the shaming brah
It's so unfortunate that so many people don't understand when young people are, effectively, disabled. A friend's parents stopped talking to him and shamed him because he applied for a handicap parking permit (doctor recommended). He can't walk much more than 100 feet without agonizing pain. He's 28. The father's words were something like "how will you feel when you are taking away that parking spot from an elderly p…
For what it's worth, pass on my support to him- if only for selfish reasons; I see myself becoming like him in the near future.
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It's been pretty effective for me. What are better ways of losing weight?
It takes hours of running to offset a couple of beers worth of calories. If you're eating unhealthy and drinking a lot, there is no amount of running to undo it.
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> Running is not great for losing weight Since when? I'd like a citation on that.
Since forever. The human body is very efficient. You have to run about 1 mile to burn 100 calories. Skipping a 1000 calorie lunch is the equivalent of running 10 miles when it comes to weight loss. Put another way, without a diet change, you would have to run about 35 miles to lose just 1 pound of fat. Running is good for the heart and lungs. For weight loss, not so much.