A recent New York Times article cited several studies that suggest that exercise alone can’t help you achieve significant weight loss. Apparently you need to clean up your diet too if you want to drop weight and get thin.
Well, DUH.
I’m no scientist but isn’t that generally well known? That diet and exercise go hand-in-hand with a healthier lifestyle? You can’t have your cake and your obscenely low body fat too.
My problem with this article is not that it promotes a clean diet full of fiber, vegetables and lean protein to go along with your exercise routine but that it seems to initially say exercise isn’t worthwhile. What’s up with that? Sure you can cut weight by watching what you eat, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be any healthier or fitter. Also, the study they’re citing didn’t test powerlifters or Olympic lifters to see if they experienced afterburn. Is pedaling slowly on a cycle really gonna affect or induce afterburn?
Here’s the bottom line: when I train, I feel good – about myself and life in general. And when I feel good, I make better choices because I want to keep feeling good. Which means I eat better, which helps me train better. And so on.
