Already covered by wedrifid elsewhere, and I largely agree with his analysis of your routine.
“Health benefits” does not mean the same thing as “reducing mortality”, which in turn does not mean the same thing as increasing cardio capacity. You dismissed cardio because of the third, but addressed it to people looking for the first.
Who is your audience? Now it seems like it is people who don’t like exercise but are also willing to do enough calculation and lifestyle management to make CI:CO even remotely applicable. It seems far more likely to me that a significant proportion will fall into one of the well-documented failure modes associated with such advice, e.g., malnutrition, neuroticism, burnout, and etc.
I dismiss cardio for the newbie. I believe that cardio completely screws up a newbie’s ability to get in the habit of exercise because of the difficulty, both psychological and physical.
This was not primarily a nutrition related post. My audience includes people who aren’t going to fix their diets, as some exercise with a crappy diet is better than no exercise and a crappy diet.
Already covered by wedrifid elsewhere, and I largely agree with his analysis of your routine.
“Health benefits” does not mean the same thing as “reducing mortality”, which in turn does not mean the same thing as increasing cardio capacity. You dismissed cardio because of the third, but addressed it to people looking for the first.
Who is your audience? Now it seems like it is people who don’t like exercise but are also willing to do enough calculation and lifestyle management to make CI:CO even remotely applicable. It seems far more likely to me that a significant proportion will fall into one of the well-documented failure modes associated with such advice, e.g., malnutrition, neuroticism, burnout, and etc.
I dismiss cardio for the newbie. I believe that cardio completely screws up a newbie’s ability to get in the habit of exercise because of the difficulty, both psychological and physical.
This was not primarily a nutrition related post. My audience includes people who aren’t going to fix their diets, as some exercise with a crappy diet is better than no exercise and a crappy diet.