Exercise Won’t Make You Lose Weight
2/10/10
Complete 21-15-9 for time:
Deadlift #225/#135
400m
The August 17, 2009 issue of Time Magazine contains an article that is going to piss off a lot of people in the fitness industry, because it challenges one of the biggest myths that have been lining the pockets of gyms, trainers, and equipment companies for years: that exercise will make you lose weight.
The article by John Cloud, Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin, explains how exercise, which does not burn a significant amount of calories to begin with, stimulates an increase in appetite and compensatory eating. According to one study, this compensatory eating may exceed the calories burned during the activity by as much as 100 – enough to cause a fat gain of over 10 pounds per year. One study mentioned showed no difference in fat loss between three exercising groups and a non-exercising control. This is bad news for aerobics instructors and trainers selling various types of “cardio” classes as an effective method of fat loss.
posted by StoneWay CrossFit at
12:00 AM
4 Comments:
This post has a firm ground to prove the topic it deals with. It is true in one way that the more one exercise, the more better the metabolism is resulting in hunger. If there is no diet plan people can surely gain weight.
I LOVE this WOD, its been too long since we did it! cant wait to hit this HARD!
Nice work today. You gave me a good time to shoot for.
ok, exercise alone for losing weight makes sense. That isn't a new idea. And some of this makes sense, but this guy steps over the line when he makes comments like,"
self-control is like a muscle: it weakens each day after you use it," or calling eating pizza part of our "our basic psychology."
I don't think we are born with the basic instincts of wanting to down a Large Meatsa-meatsa and a Coke.
Self-control only becomes weak -- like a muscle -- if you use it once a month. If you use it every day, it becomes strong.
The author (and Time magazine) embellish this just a tad bit, I would say. He had little to say that if you eat McDonald's and eat Muffins every morning, no matter what you do, you won't lose weight. Come on folks, it's diet and exercise -- common knowledge.
A few other questionable quotes:
- "exercise depletes not just the body's muscles but the brain's self-control 'muscle'"
"fiery spurts of vigorous exercise could lead to weight gain."
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