Here are a few things the author left out do to either ignorance or to just cause a stir and sell a few more copies. (If I had to guess it was probably the latter.)
1. The article starts out with the authors typical week of exercise. Which is the 30 minutes on a stair mill on Tuesday, personal trainer on Wednesday, Thursday is a yoga type class, and Friday a 5.5 mile run. No wonder he doesn't see any results all this guys does is cardio with the exception of his personal training on Wednesday. Cardio never has been and never will be effective for weight loss. His yoga class is intended for balance and flexibility, again not weight loss. And we don't know what he does on Monday, but if I had to guess it's probably cardio. So after one paragraph his article should be over. He's using the WRONG tool for the job! If he wants weight loss he needs resistance training and diet. But, he continues to go on for 5 more pages.
2. The article states that a survey which ran from 1980, when only 47% of respondents said they engaged in regular exercise, to 2000, when the figure had grown to 57%, but more people are overweight and obese now than they were 20 years ago when less people exercised. Yes, more people are exercising now and yes more people are overweight and obese, but people are much less active now than 20 years ago. That's why more people are overweight. If they didn't live sedentary lives they would not be overweight.
3. The author stated that some women actually gained weight in one study. First it's only one study, he never once mentioned all of the volumes of research studies that have shown resistance training and diet is the most effective way to lose weight. Instead, he focused on this one study in which the women worked out with a personal trainer, but told not to change their diet. Diet is the most important part of any program, without it you are not going to see any weight loss.
4. It also states that after exercising people are more hungry and more likely to pig out because of this and because of feeling like the earned it since they worked out. Ummm, self-control! You cannot eat crap food and expect to see results. But, god forbid we make someone hold themselves accountable and practice a little self-control.
5. And then the author does a complete 180 and states that we just need to increase our daily activity to lose weight. Is increasing our daily activity not exercise? Kinda debunks his whole article huh? And yes, I agree with him we do need to increase are daily activity, but where are people going to do this? For most people the 3-4 hours they spend each week at the gym is their only activity all week. The other 164 hours of the week are spent sitting at a desk, in the car, and/or in front on the TV. Sad, but true. What's worse is that these same people are going to read TIME magazine and come across this article stating that exercise won't help them lose weight and quit working out. Now they have 0 hours of activity. Not good!
This was just my little rant, but things like this fire me up because it is straight out lying to the reader. And is just a another sleazy attempt by the media to sell more magazines.
Live Fit,
Josh
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