re: PuttaDaForkDown

You just don't get it Cad. The weight loss is because of those long training rides. Our bodies don't always act instantly, but once you quit eating like a pig (your words), the weight started falling off. To imply or insist that any kind of exercise is not beneficial to weight loss is misinformation. The basic way to lose weight is move more and eat less. To insist that it has to be High intensity to be effective is BS. I am living proof that you can lose weight with aerobic workouts because that is 99.9% of what my workouts are. I do spinning which has an element of interval in it at times, but I tend to stay below 80% of my MHR which is fat burning aerobic. If one overweight person reads your sig and decides that it is not beneficial to him/her to exercise at least lightly, then you have did them a disservice with your misinformation. Sorry for the rant, but I could not hold it in any longer. High intensity interval training is just that training for athletes in competition. It is not necessary for weight loss.

On a side note, this past weekend I had boiled crawfish on Saturday. Shrimp and crab gumbo and pork roast rice and gravy for Mother's Day on Sunday (postponed due to schedule conflicts from previous Sunday), along with apple pie ala mode for desert. Despite all those cheats, I am still at 192 this morning because I continue to spin 5 days a week.

LINK

cool article on ketosis and low carb dieting.

The tl;dr version is

low carb isn't bad for you.

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Sorry for the rant, but I could not hold it in any longer. High intensity interval training is just that training for athletes in competition. It is not necessary for weight loss

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kaplan, i understand what you're saying but listen to me:

- our bodies are pre-programmed to eat to survive. you push yourself hard for days at a time (or possibly weeks) and you're going to overeat..its impossible to deprive your hunger day in and day out if you're burning 5000 calories on some intense cardio. just ask michael phelps..there's a reason the dude eats 10,000+ calories a day and doesnt gain (or lose) weight. you burn 500 calories and your internal 'clock' is going to want you to eat 500 + MORE because your body doesn't like or want to lose weight. it likes things to stay the same and its worried you're going to starve it so it wants everything back you just burned off..and then some.

- if you *think* you have to do an hour or more of cardio every day..then you're going to eat more. YOU WILL. you're not that much of a master over your body's natural instincts. sure you can fight it off for a while..maybe you're even disciplined enough to fight it off for a couple months..but that kind of exercise/eating pattern WILL RESULT IN A CALORIE SURPLUS EVENTUALLY. you can't win. its like trying to defy gravity.

- sooner or later life happens. this means you can't continue to devote an hour every day to spinning or anything else. impossible. unless you're madonna or charlie sheen and can afford to do nothing with your life except focus on working out, you will have periods where you are unable to get in that kind of cardio.

- as a result of the above, your body will continue to hunger in the same fashion and you'll eat more than you burned (way over if you suddenly stop exercising for 3 or 4 days and cant instantly adjust your diet to eat 500 or 1000 less calories a day..which YOU CANT) and voila, instant 5-10lb weight gain.


that's the vicious cycle of believing you are strong and a man and can lose weight LONG TERM <-- (key phrase) by your awesome massive manly cardio workouts alone.

its the diet; not the exercise. it always has been and always will be.

you simply cannot exercise yourself thin.

do 15-25 minutes of good intense exercise and you're DONE. easy and MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH

(did I mention "MUCH"?)

less likely to leave you feeling tired & hungry like long cardio does.

Cad,

I beg to differ. Have you ever seen a fat marathoner. I mean have you ever seen anything except a skinny marathoner. Yes there is should be an element of diet included in any weight loss plan. But there should also be an element of exercise in that weight loss plan as well and it can be low intensity. If there is no exercise the body thinks a famine is coming and immediately starts storing fat. We have to trick the body into thinking there is no famine by moving more.

The proof is in the pudding, over 35 lbs lost with another 15 lbs to go. Don't try to tell me what I can and cannot do. This weight is never coming back on. I repeat never.

Here we go again.





Wish I could have some damn popcorn.

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Here we go again.

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again, and again and again.....

I agree that it is not necessary but to say that it is ineffective is not accurate according to 99% of professionals.

dont forget to add "as a long term weightloss tool" to "completely ineffective"

take the sentence as a whole.