It won’t work better than SS. It is explicitly not supposed to be an improvement to SS in terms of results. It is an improvement to SS in terms of time/mental commitment. The 5 exercises SS asks you to learn are all difficult and require a willingness to watch videos, read articles, and continuously check your form. The 3 exercises from this routine can be learned ridiculously quickly. People who use it will see a result close to the results from SS.
This article is mainly for people who don’t like exercise and thus are interested in health benefits with minimal input. If you’re interested in cardio for some other reason, great, have fun.
If it is painfully and obviously wrong there should be plenty of studies on people who maintain their caloric consumption and activity level but change whatever you think is the true culprit and lose weight. The main reason people think CI:CO is not true is due to errors related to not accounting for BMR and TDEE change.
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.
It won’t work better than SS. It is explicitly not supposed to be an improvement to SS in terms of results. It is an improvement to SS in terms of time/mental commitment. The 5 exercises SS asks you to learn are all difficult and require a willingness to watch videos, read articles, and continuously check your form. The 3 exercises from this routine can be learned ridiculously quickly. People who use it will see a result close to the results from SS.
This article is mainly for people who don’t like exercise and thus are interested in health benefits with minimal input. If you’re interested in cardio for some other reason, great, have fun.
If it is painfully and obviously wrong there should be plenty of studies on people who maintain their caloric consumption and activity level but change whatever you think is the true culprit and lose weight. The main reason people think CI:CO is not true is due to errors related to not accounting for BMR and TDEE change.
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.