Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes also claims aerobics doesn’t work to lose weight and refers to a bunch of studies to that effect. Though he doesn’t go so far as to deny there are cardiovascular benefits.
Incorrect, at least from my experience. I lost ~30 pounds, a little more, when I was 16 and doing aerobics one summer. The only diet element I had was eating slightly less. Mind, it was an hour, sometimes an hour and half of intense great aerobics with no breather pause and I was sweating a great deal by the end of each session.
I did gain that weight back in less than a month, so fast that my classmates didn’t even notice I had lost a lot of weight in the first place, so the end effect was that it didn’t work, but the idea of aerobics not leading to weight loss at all is not true.
You cannot counterbalance the evidence behind a claim that “refers to a bunch of studies” by citing anecdotal evidence.
You can most certainly give people a cause to actually look at the “referred to studies” to see what they actually say rather than third hand impressions given in a one sentence comment about a book. ie. To see whether the actual studies are incompatible with the prediction “If someone does intense cardio for one and a half hours (every day) AND actually ate less rather than more energy from food while maintaining this schedule they will probably lose weight”.
As far as I know the “doesn’t work” means something far more specific, practical and psychological that isn’t particularly incompatible with the highly unnatural circumstances mentioned in Kiraly’s experience. It is also something rather closely relevant to the “I did gain that weight back in less than a month” observation.
I took off about fifteen pounds in seven weeks with nothing but cardio, and dropped another twenty after that in a few more months, still with more cardio (it probably would have taken less if I hadn’t had to recover from getting hit by a car in the middle of it,) and I was still losing weight at the time that I seriously altered my workout regimen, because I’d lost too much weight. I put weight back on afterwards, but it was almost all muscle, so that people actually commented that I was looking leaner after I put twenty back on than before I gained the weight (some people even thought I was losing weight while I was gaining it.) I still weigh less today than when I started working out, and have more muscle as well.
On the other hand, I have a predisposition to eating disorders (suffered anorexia as a kid,) and my approach to exercise for someone who was not a competitive athlete at the time could fairly be described as fanatical, so it’s reasonable to expect that most people who start working out with the intention of taking weight off would not achieve similar results.
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes also claims aerobics doesn’t work to lose weight and refers to a bunch of studies to that effect. Though he doesn’t go so far as to deny there are cardiovascular benefits.
Incorrect, at least from my experience. I lost ~30 pounds, a little more, when I was 16 and doing aerobics one summer. The only diet element I had was eating slightly less. Mind, it was an hour, sometimes an hour and half of intense great aerobics with no breather pause and I was sweating a great deal by the end of each session.
I did gain that weight back in less than a month, so fast that my classmates didn’t even notice I had lost a lot of weight in the first place, so the end effect was that it didn’t work, but the idea of aerobics not leading to weight loss at all is not true.
You cannot counterbalance the evidence behind a claim that “refers to a bunch of studies” by citing anecdotal evidence.
You can most certainly give people a cause to actually look at the “referred to studies” to see what they actually say rather than third hand impressions given in a one sentence comment about a book. ie. To see whether the actual studies are incompatible with the prediction “If someone does intense cardio for one and a half hours (every day) AND actually ate less rather than more energy from food while maintaining this schedule they will probably lose weight”.
As far as I know the “doesn’t work” means something far more specific, practical and psychological that isn’t particularly incompatible with the highly unnatural circumstances mentioned in Kiraly’s experience. It is also something rather closely relevant to the “I did gain that weight back in less than a month” observation.
This is exactly what pjeby’s description of the book you’re calling “incorrect” suggested would happen.
I took off about fifteen pounds in seven weeks with nothing but cardio, and dropped another twenty after that in a few more months, still with more cardio (it probably would have taken less if I hadn’t had to recover from getting hit by a car in the middle of it,) and I was still losing weight at the time that I seriously altered my workout regimen, because I’d lost too much weight. I put weight back on afterwards, but it was almost all muscle, so that people actually commented that I was looking leaner after I put twenty back on than before I gained the weight (some people even thought I was losing weight while I was gaining it.) I still weigh less today than when I started working out, and have more muscle as well.
On the other hand, I have a predisposition to eating disorders (suffered anorexia as a kid,) and my approach to exercise for someone who was not a competitive athlete at the time could fairly be described as fanatical, so it’s reasonable to expect that most people who start working out with the intention of taking weight off would not achieve similar results.