Cardio = Waste of time?

[zero%bodyfat]

plent of cardio is why im ripped

 

[Judah Bauer]

This is not supported anywhere in medical literature.

either way..I've never seen a ripped eskimo.

 

[Mike_Rojas]

either way..I've never seen a ripped eskimo.

Off topic: Eskimos were very lean before they ran into white men and started eating all the white flour, sugar, etc. Just like the Indians before they ate all that junk.

On topic: I usually fatten up in the winter months and lean out in the warmer months.

 

[Nonerz]

Mike, is that because of the weather...or is it an effort to get into your "bikini?"

 

[Mike_Rojas]

Mike, is that because of the weather...or is it an effort to get into your "bikini?"

LOL... No, I'm more active in the summer. Dusk is later, so I can do physical things after work - like ride a bike or take a walk or whatever. When the sun goes down at 5 I just hang out at home and be a bum.. and eat more. So for me, it has more to do with daylight hours then temperature.

 

[Spartacus]

I kinda feel that some running/jogging is good for helping to free fat from the buttocks and that area in general...I know the sentiment is you can't spot reduce..but when I gain some weight its all about the waist and butt...my arms/chest stay lean though I may have added 10lbs of fat...I'm always lifting and then there are periods when I drop cardio..I never add fat to my upper body...seems because I'm always working those areas..so when I wish to lean out I add some running to exercise the butt..seems to me logically if your body is mobilizing fat to meet energy requirements then wouldn't it pull the Kcals from the areas most proximal to the working muscles?..or is that if your body is genetically prone to adding fat in certain areas,then when your reducing fat the body pulls the most from the areas where you add the most?..on another note I notice that doing some running/jogging significantly increases bowel transit times..I've always felt(no pun)that if the food is moving along quickly through the GI system you'll absorb less calories..I'd estimate that we don't absorb betw 25-33% of the calories we eat..nelson?

 

[Judah Bauer]

Off topic: Eskimos were very lean before they ran into white men and started eating all the white flour, sugar, etc. Just like the Indians before they ate all that junk.

On topic: I usually fatten up in the winter months and lean out in the warmer months.

thats not true.

 

[Mike_Rojas]

thats not true.

Ok, this thread is going in a weird direction, but when someone tells me I'm wrong I want to prove myself.

Ever hear of Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson? In 1906 he lived with the eskimos for a while. He said he never saw a fat Eskimo. Here is what he said:

"Eskimos, when still on their home meats, are never corpulent—at least, I have seen none who were. Eskimos in their native garments do give the impression of fat, round faces on fat, round bodies, but the roundness of face is a racial peculiarity and the rest of the effect is produced by loose and puffy garments. See them stripped, and one does not find the abdominal protuberances and folds which are so in evidence on Coney Island beaches and so persuasive against nudism.
There is, however, among Eskimos no racial immunity to corpulence. That is proved by the rapidity with which and the extent to which they fatten on European diets."

The Europeans brought obesity to the Eskimo. This is from Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1935.

 

[Judah Bauer]

Ok, this thread is going in a weird direction, but when someone tells me I'm wrong I want to prove myself.

Ever hear of Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson? In 1906 he lived with the eskimos for a while. He said he never saw a fat Eskimo. Here is what he said:

"Eskimos, when still on their home meats, are never corpulent—at least, I have seen none who were. Eskimos in their native garments do give the impression of fat, round faces on fat, round bodies, but the roundness of face is a racial peculiarity and the rest of the effect is produced by loose and puffy garments. See them stripped, and one does not find the abdominal protuberances and folds which are so in evidence on Coney Island beaches and so persuasive against nudism.
There is, however, among Eskimos no racial immunity to corpulence. That is proved by the rapidity with which and the extent to which they fatten on European diets."

The Europeans brought obesity to the Eskimo. This is from Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1935.

I'm sure the eskimo's weren't fat par se...but the original point I was trying to make was that they weren't really "lean". If you look at the physique of alot of African's/Aborigines ect...they actually were pretty ripped...easily 8%... An eskimo subjectively labeled as not "corpulent" could easily be 15 - 20%. In short...the point I'm trying to make is cold weather doesn't seem to lend itself to low percentages of bf (although it could lend itself to "healthy" levels).

 

[Mike_Rojas]

I'll buy that . The body probably tries to store a thicker layer in cold weather.