WHY CARDIO makes you FAT!

[brownpaperbag04]

It's calories in, calories burned, period.

Cardio burns.

that wasn't the point of the post though...the point of the post is that cardio provides temporary fat loss...but it eats your muscle...which is the best way to have prolonged fat loss...

Your muscles will burn 50-100 calories/lb per day just at rest...not moving at all....your body doesn't run for you while you sit on the couch. Granted you have to work your muscles or they will deterorate...but that's the point...they do the aerobic job too.

 

[Moderate_THIS]

Please change this thread's topic to:

"Why writing an article on exercise physiology by a Doctor Of Chiropracty makes you a stupid fuck"

 

[tinymm]

Everyone's body is diffrent!!! some people can eat whatever they want and they dont gain wait others woulddgain alot! same goes for cardio. it works for some people and some dont need it!
i think diet is huge, but i also think cardio helps too....
-matt

 

[Triple J]

my neighbor who is a helluva nice guy is training for a tri-athlon and he take it very seriously. i could not do justice trying to describe how much cardio he is doing. he's 29 and I am 43. now he could outrun, bike, or swim me by a long shot, but he must still be 20-30 pounds overweight with a big gut. I have caught him staring at me (kinda creepy sometimes) like he cannot believe it is possible to look this way at my age. the human body was not meant to spend extreme amounts of time doing aerobics. except for birds I really cannot think of any mammal that is. take my dog for example. sleeps most of the day. but when he goes it is with super high intensity. that beast is all muscle. who looks healthier the marathon guys or the sprinters?

 

[Nelson Montana]

Okay, why not...

Quick points.

Everyone who talks about how much weight they lost doing cardio started out overweight. ANY exersice will make you lose weight if you're overweight and overeating.

Fact:Cardio is exercise. PERIOD! It is nothing magical. It is simply activity. Anything it does, weight training does better.

Why are people dissing the author of that piece because he's a Chiropractor? Are the people who disagree any more qualified? I know many chiropractors who will tell you they see more messed up knees from...quess who? Runners.

And by the way, here in NY they hold the Mrtathon every fall and my wife and I usually go to Central Park for the finish -- and let me tell you -- we see A LOT of fat people crossing that finish line. (Except for the top guys from Kenya who weigh 120 pounds)

Zyg is right that the body adapts to any activity but he overlooked one simple fact -- weight training is by nature progressive. The resistance increases as you progress. That isn't the case with aerobics. And as proven by the fat finishers of the Marathon, after a while, the ability to execute the activity provides no alteration of body composition.

Now feel free to disagree. (But you'll be wrong).

 

[variation]

increasing distance and/or speed are methods to progress in aerobics type exercises, or even adding those little wrist/ankle weights.. but I suppose that is now essentially becoming a form of weight training

 

[busdriver1]

If you want to keep the muscle and do the cardio you gotta take the drugs. My friend and i have done about 6 cycles together. When we do a cutter, we do a cutter. Cardio out the ass, and good clean strict diet. You gotta do the cardio, diet alone aint enough, to get really ripped. When we do the cut cycles, we always keep the muscle we gained form the previous bulk cycle and we even put on a few pounds of lean muscle in the process. Well his girl found out what he was doing and said "me or the steroids". He quit, right before we were getting ready to start a cutting cycle, we had finished up a nice bulk cycle and were ready to shed some of the fat we put on. Well, I got on some winny, anavar, and a little test. He stayed natural. I aint lying when I say I could see the muscle coming off of him after about 2 weeks of doing cardio. I told him since he was natural he might want to cut back or even stop the cardio and stick to a strict diet. Well he went on for another 3 weeks of the cardio (5-6 times a week) and the fool got smaller then he has ever been. Finally he agreed what was happening and he stopped the cardio. He is finally putting some muscle back on. Now he aint getting as ripped as me like he usually does when he is doing cardio, (which is pissing him off) but at least he aint losing muscle. The point is, I guess, if you wanna get shredded, I mean shredded, you have to do THE CARDIO! Diet alone aint gonna do it. And from my experience to keep the muscle while doing the cardio, you gotta be on the juice.

 

[poantrex]

I maintain that you don't have the proper perspective on this because you are an EXTREME ectomorph. Having been a lard ass in the past, I can conclusively state for myself any many others that running, weight lifting and diet is much better than diet and weightlifting alone.

Okay, why not...

Quick points.

Everyone who talks about how much weight they lost doing cardio started out overweight. ANY exersice will make you lose weight if you're overweight and overeating.

Fact:Cardio is exercise. PERIOD! It is nothing magical. It is simply activity. Anything it does, weight training does better.

Why are people dissing the author of that piece because he's a Chiropractor? Are the people who disagree any more qualified? I know many chiropractors who will tell you they see more messed up knees from...quess who? Runners.

And by the way, here in NY they hold the Mrtathon every fall and my wife and I usually go to Central Park for the finish -- and let me tell you -- we see A LOT of fat people crossing that finish line. (Except for the top guys from Kenya who weigh 120 pounds)

Zyg is right that the body adapts to any activity but he overlooked one simple fact -- weight training is by nature progressive. The resistance increases as you progress. That isn't the case with aerobics. And as proven by the fat finishers of the Marathon, after a while, the ability to execute the activity provides no alteration of body composition.

Now feel free to disagree. (But you'll be wrong).

 

[jboldman]

Ah for cripes sake, post me one study where reasonable cardio affects lbm! Sheesh, this is enough to try anyones patience. Where do these mythis come from. Don't like it, don't do it! But for heaven's sake, don't make up stories and fabricate little myths as excuses.

"cardio provides temporary weight loss." Like diet doesn't? ANd to a lesser extent, weight training? stop any of these activities/approaches and guess what? nah, you'll never figure it out.

jb

that wasn't the point of the post though...the point of the post is that cardio provides temporary fat loss...but it eats your muscle...which is the best way to have prolonged fat loss...

Your muscles will burn 50-100 calories/lb per day just at rest...not moving at all....your body doesn't run for you while you sit on the couch. Granted you have to work your muscles or they will deterorate...but that's the point...they do the aerobic job too.

 

[Laser0001]

I printed this post out and taped to every cardio machine in my gym to see if I too could win a popularity contest.