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Interesting article: "10 Reasons Why I Don't Do Aerobics" his site: "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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hmmm.
It's well known that you don't burn that many calories as opposed to just taking a brisk walk; however it greatly increases the body's ability to absorb and deal with sugar, thereby significantly decreasing insulin resistance (A precurser to diabetes and a TON of other things).
I've never seen a person who regular exercises who hasn't benefited from it both in stamina, overall happiness, and the looks department.
I know when I incorporate a regular exercise routine to include aerobic activity, I feel much happier within about 2 short weeks. I just find the article to be a bit misleading. It seems to state that aerobic activity is unhealthy.
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here's another
http://www.marksdailyappl...nst-cardio/ "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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I started reading that, but the guy writes like he swallowed a thesaurus. Just spit it out, dude - there's nothing worse than someone trying to look smarter than he is with a bunch of SAT words.
That said, I'm not a fan of mindless cardio, either. I prefer to do a mix of stuff that I actually enjoy doing - riding my bike for an hour here, swimming for a half hour there, playing a walking round of golf (rather than riding a cart).
I'm not thin (and never will be). But my weight is stable, my blood pressure was 108/64 at my last physical, and I'm not burned out on exercise (as I was in my aerobics-intensive days 10 years ago). [Edited 6/4/10 4:30am] We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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AWESOME.
People used to ask me why I lift weights and don't do any running or aerobic exercise, and my standard smart-ass answer was, "When the fighting starts, I might need a few things but the ability to run away isn't one of them".
But seriously, I always figured that I got plenty of aerobic exercise in my workout. They last about 1.5 hours and I don't rest more than 90 seconds between sets, so my heart rate is constantly elevated. Especially when I do legs. I still don't know why doing lunges increases my heart rate so much. Especially since I do in-place lunges, and don't lunge around the gym.
I also think that the repetitive jolts a long aerobic workout puts on your lower body joints and your back can't be good for those of us on the other side of 50. I quit running several years ago because I could feel the toll it was taking on my knees and back.
Great info, Bboy. It makes me feel good that my strategy has been right, at least for me. | |
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I've read articles like this before, but I've never heard that cardio LOWERS testosterone. That confuses me. | |
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Cardio is a "depleter" - just burns and burns and burns. And (in general), cardio bunnies don't give their bodies enough time to recover between sessions. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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I find some of this confusing. I mean look at soccer players (football-for the rest of the world). I mean one game is intense cardio. They don't look like they are depleted. 99.9% of everything I say is strictly for my own entertainment | |
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there are more weight machines than cardio in every gym ive ever been too. all of my workouts centered around resistance work- on the mat and even while doing incline walking on the treadmill i've hammered weights.
the only thing i can think of are the classes-like step-tae bo-etc.... LOVE HARD. | |
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Wellllll...you can't really know you're depleted until it happens. Can you? What is the average retirement age of a world class soccer player?
That said, we're not talking about elite athletes. We're talking about average people who've been told that the road to fitness is paved with cardio, cardio and more cardio. They hit that road - and then, one day around their 40 birthday, wake up with pain in their knees...pain in their hips...pain in their lower back. And, at that point, the damage has already been done. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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you mean those young fit men that seem to be keeling over from unexplainable and undiagnosed heart disease at an alarming rate, often on the field? | |
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Co-sign. This sentence did it for me: "The drudgery of their Sisyphean tasks compels their attempts to lose self-awareness by inundating themselves with external stimuli."
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That sentence actually triggered my gag reflex. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Those seem like side effects that would occur with extreme amounts of cardio: marathon runners, cross country runners, etc. I don't think the average person has to worry about those side effects. Also, what may harm one person may be of no concern to another. There are some people who can run mile after mile everyday and have no problems.
It's about what works the best for you. I just try to keep it balanced. Lift some weights. Do some cardio. [Edited 6/4/10 13:22pm] | |
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking "get to the point already!" Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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I totally agre with this.
I keep it balanced by eating a lot of food, then I make sure to rest by lying down on the couch.
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I like to lift scrap metal and carry around logs. Then I eat salted fish.
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Very interesting. I think I KNEW muscle was a better thing to work on than cardio, but I was always hung up on cardio because I'm a chunk. Everyone says, cardio burns fat and calories, and that's what I needed.
But if I ever really KICKED up my cardio, my fat ass would be raiding the kitchen.
Also, when I ever picked up some intense weight training, my appetite was more manageable, and the weight was not only "easier" to take off, but it was easier to recover from a weekend or vacation binge. It was like the muscle helped burn my calories even as I was NOT working out.
Makes sense, but I guess I have been programmed to think that cardio is most important.
Now that I think of it, that P90X shit I bought really works because there is more emphasis on building muscle and only doing cardio 2 days out of the week.
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