Asininity from the NYT Essentials File: Does Exercise Really Keep Us Healthy?
Granted this was written 1/8/2008, but that wasn’t that long ago. And it popped on the New York Times’ Health Category Must Reads list today.
Plenty of gems, but this was worst…
"And what about weight loss? Lifting weights builds muscles but will not make you burn more calories. The muscle you gain is minuscule compared with the total amount of skeletal muscle in the body. And muscle has a very low metabolic rate when it?s at rest. (You can?t flex your biceps all the time.)
Jack Wilmore, an exercise physiologist at Texas A & M University, calculated that the average amount of muscle that men gained after a serious 12-week weight-lifting program was 2 kilograms, or 4.4 pounds. That added muscle would increase the metabolic rate by only 24 calories a day."
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I don’t give a shit if lifting makes me healthy. I do it because I enjoy lifting as well as getting stronger/bigger. In fact, as a powerlifter, I’m sure I do things detrimental for my health in the name of performance.
yes, as i seem to have to clarify to people over and over, i’m trying to get STRONG, not fit!
hahaha
this reminds me of an old guy who works out where I work.
he said something along the lines of “I’m 79 years old, when can I stop exercising?” I didn’t know what to say. I wanted to say “whenever you’re ready to die” but I didn’t…
[quote]miroku333 wrote:
hahaha
this reminds me of an old guy who works out where I work.
he said something along the lines of “I’m 79 years old, when can I stop exercising?” I didn’t know what to say. I wanted to say “whenever you’re ready to die” but I didn’t…[/quote]
He probably would have died on the spot had you said it.
[quote]Asgardian wrote:
Jack Wilmore, an exercise physiologist at Texas A & M University, calculated that the average amount of muscle that men gained after a serious 12-week weight-lifting program was 2 kilograms, or 4.4 pounds. That added muscle would increase the metabolic rate by only 24 calories a day."
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Well that statistic is true, but it doesn’t count the calories you burned while working out to get that increase in muscle.
A better title would have been “Does Exercise AloneReally Keep Us Healthy?”
I think that it is really a matter of combining exercise with diet.
[quote]Christine wrote:
A better title would have been “Does Exercise AloneReally Keep Us Healthy?”
I think that it is really a matter of combining exercise with diet. [/quote]
And as you can tell from Christine’s avatar, McDonald’s food and bicep curls will get first class tickets to the gun show. BANG!
good thing i dont give a shit about health
or burning calories
or whatever the New York Times and Jack Wilmore have to say about lifting weights
i’m sure the author lifts peanuts
[quote]That One Guy wrote:
Asgardian wrote:
Jack Wilmore, an exercise physiologist at Texas A & M University, calculated that the average amount of muscle that men gained after a serious 12-week weight-lifting program was 2 kilograms, or 4.4 pounds. That added muscle would increase the metabolic rate by only 24 calories a day."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Well that statistic is true, but it doesn’t count the calories you burned while working out to get that increase in muscle.[/quote]
Plus the calories burned in the repair period after working out.
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Christine wrote:
A better title would have been “Does Exercise AloneReally Keep Us Healthy?”
I think that it is really a matter of combining exercise with diet.
And as you can tell from Christine’s avatar, McDonald’s food and bicep curls will get first class tickets to the gun show. BANG![/quote]
Triceps courtesy of McDonalds.
Even if weightlifting was risky, or lethal to my health y wouldnt care and kept lifting.
I like it,it makes me strong, it makes me feel good, period.
"The difficulty, Dr. Blair says, is that it?s much easier to eat 1,000 calories than to burn off 1,000 calories with exercise. As he relates, ?An old football coach used to say, ?I have all my assistants running five miles a day, but they eat 10 miles a day.??
i really like this quote, even thoug it was taken out of context