Anyone agree with this?

Leka1000
Leka1000 Posts: 160 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
They say cardio 5 days a week is a must? Dont some people only weight train and get sexy belly? Of course eat healthy deficit too
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/maia2.htm

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  • Warchortle
    Warchortle Posts: 2,197 Member
    lol fitness advice from bodybuilding.com
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    Warchortle wrote: »
    lol fitness advice from bodybuilding.com

    It's comical how they make fun of diet woo at the beginning of the article, then proceed to spout a bunch of their own woo.
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
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    Originally published on inch-aweigh.com

    Losing fat is all about eating fewer calories than you burn.
    Cardio is a fine way to burn more but it is absolutely not necessary as long as you just eat at a caloric deficit.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,989 Member
    Cardio is for heart health. It helps to contribute to calorie burn, but if you eat more calories than you burn even if you did 5 days of cardio at 60 minutes, you won't lose weight.

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  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    Mistake 1: Relying on anything from bodybuilding.com.

    That's pretty much all there is to know.
  • L_Master
    L_Master Posts: 354 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Cardio is for heart health. It helps to contribute to calorie burn, but if you eat more calories than you burn even if you did 5 days of cardio at 60 minutes, you won't lose weight.

    Yepppp. I've gained weight burning an extra 2500 kcal/day from exercise.

  • Leka1000
    Leka1000 Posts: 160 Member
    Thank you!!!!!
  • holothuroidea
    holothuroidea Posts: 772 Member
    Lol, the fat inside your muscles

    It sounds like someone failed their high school anatomy class, read an article about visceral fat, suffered a lapse in reading comprehension and decided to sum it all up in a fitness article

    Visceral fat is not the same thing as "belly fat," it is located around your internal organs, it's not something you can see or feel jiggle when you run.

    Maintaining a healthy amount of visceral fat is considered very important for long term health, and aerobic exercise seems to play more of a role in losing visceral fat as opposed to subcutaneous fat (the jiggly belly, hide your abs kind).

    If you're a healthy young person who just wants a more cut/toned physique, you're probably beyond having to worry about it. That having been said, cardio is good for humans and should really be part of everyday life, even if it's just walking or having a nice leisurely bike ride. :)
  • Leka1000
    Leka1000 Posts: 160 Member
    holothuroidea wrote: »
    Lol, the fat inside your muscles I know! I read that too and was like WTF???

    It sounds like someone failed their high school anatomy class, read an article about visceral fat, suffered a lapse in reading comprehension and decided to sum it all up in a fitness article

    Visceral fat is not the same thing as "belly fat," it is located around your internal organs, it's not something you can see or feel jiggle when you run.

    Maintaining a healthy amount of visceral fat is considered very important for long term health, and aerobic exercise seems to play more of a role in losing visceral fat as opposed to subcutaneous fat (the jiggly belly, hide your abs kind).

    If you're a healthy young person who just wants a more cut/toned physique, you're probably beyond having to worry about it. That having been said, cardio is good for humans and should really be part of everyday life, even if it's just walking or having a nice leisurely bike ride. :)

  • Cherimoose
    Cherimoose Posts: 5,208 Member
    holothuroidea wrote: »
    Lol, the fat inside your muscles

    It sounds like someone failed their high school anatomy class, read an article about visceral fat, suffered a lapse in reading comprehension and decided to sum it all up in a fitness article

    Can't blame them for wanting to avoid using technical jargon like "proximal to the muscle layer", which tends to tune people out. Anyway, visceral fat does affect the appearance of the abdomen, so i don't see the problem with mentioning it. :+1:
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    holothuroidea wrote: »
    Lol, the fat inside your muscles

    I guess you've never eaten a nicely marbled steak!

    nature.com/ijo/journal/v25/n9/full/0801733a.html

  • holothuroidea
    holothuroidea Posts: 772 Member
    Seriously, did you guys read the article? I do not think those ideas are what the author had in mind.

    I once had a guy tell me that when you're dieting right your poop will float because it has more fat in it. I mean, yes there are lipids in human feces and yes fat is less dense than water but that does not make his reasoning any less specious.

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