Back in college all the cardio equipment was lined up in the middle of the gym. A couple rows of treadmills, a couple rows of ellipticals and one back row of stair machines. From the back row I could check out all the girls without having to fall off the equipment looking over my shoulder.
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Your actions matched your goal; well done
Wow, strong wordsā¦ Although I do not know @Lonnie123 personally, he frequently has very good and insightful informationā¦ definitely far from an idiot or dimwit. If you get butthurt over a simple (but funny) joke, especially after being such a jackass, youāre not going to last long on these forums. Please reference the reply from @SkyzykS a few days ago with the 4 likes (it deserved more).
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If someone is doing exercise they donāt enjoy there is going to be a stress response because they are doing something they donāt want to be doing. If someone else is doing the same exercise and they love it there will be no stress response at all because they are having a great time.
So if you make a bunch of people walk 6 hours a day and they are being forced to do it and they donāt want to do it, there is going to be a stress response, maybe for six hours straight.
If people do exercise they enjoy, find relaxing and therapeutic, there isnāt going to be a stress response. But if someone is on the treadmill looking at the clock, counting down the minutes, wanting it to be over, they should probably pick some other form of exercise because what they are doing is creating a stress response.
If you havenāt already, you should check out Roberst Sapolskyās books. He writes a lot about this stuff.
Do you think anyone enjoys heavy squats qnd deads?
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Is the base assumption that a stress response is negative? Thatās probably important context for the upcoming internet argument.
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Iād say that whether itās eustress or distress, your body doesnāt distinguish the difference and the physiologically response is the same.
But Iām also willing to be wrong.
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All quality training has a stress responseā¦ . Is the term adaptation a foreign concept!
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How dare you?
At least I didnāt blame my heart disease on too much exercise.
But believe me, I was [this] close. 
That and too much fruit. 
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Just heavy deads.
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I do. Way more than light ones for reps, which suck.
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I think there are enough forced marches on record to show weight loss is possible in spite of stress or cortisol levels, so this isnāt the best argument.
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Ha! Nothing dropped weight faster, come to think of it!
Hiking in the mountains with a heavy backpack, 20km a day, remains one of the most efficient things Iāve ever done for fat loss and I wasnāt even trying to lose weight. Attaining a surplus was just not in the cards.
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Iām am shockedā¦ that people use to actually get bigger stronger and lean without knowing the horror that is cortisol.
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Back then they knew to avoid Training on The Nerve so they didnāt have Nervous Breakdowns.
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I never said weight loss wasnāt possible in spite of stress. Is it the most efficient way? That comes down to individual factors.
Itās a fact that if you are doing something you donāt want to do you will have a stress response. I donāt see where this is controversial in any way. You can take blood samples all day and show this to be true.
People use stress as an excuse. It is not the reason people donāt lose weight, everything triggers a stress response. There is do, or do not.
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