Gym making us fatter

[devil_911]

What she is saying is basically fact...

fact?? :-s

[teamfatboy]

Nah, it's the opposite of fact....

Even flippant asides like 'folks who prefer treadmills want their head examined' are testament to her fundamental lack of understanding.

A treadmill's just a tool to improve aspects of one's physiology (whether it's %bf, cv fitness, whatever) and to write it off is just ignorance. If she really thought the motor running the belt was doing most of the work, let's get her on it, run it up to 16kph and then tell her to relax :pfft:

Fact is though, Chovik, that many of the Stuff or SMH readers will accept her version as the truth, and be put off. Ill-informed, preaching to the uninformed...

[severe]

She gave up.

She is like all those other failures, that want it now, and when it eludes them, they give up, blaming the gym.

Not their lack of dedication, patience, diet, sleeping, etc.

It isn't what we do sometimes that makes us who we are, it is what we do most of the time.

It has to be a lifestyle... if you want your life to be awesome.

By her detailing how she wanted to leave before the year was up, I can use her assumption machine to say that she had just admitted that she is a quitter. She never mentioned that she wanted to transfer. She is a quitter. Being awesome is just too much hard work, it seems. ffs. slap her already.

And as for 3 in 5 being obese. It's the other 2 people who work out FULL TIME. shes a sluzza for the hamburger lifestyle, for sure. It shows that anyone can get heard, regardless of merit.

[JOSEF RAKICH]

Seriously... this chick is the one who doesn't know what she is talking about.

It's not the gym that made her fat, it was all the food she stuffed down her throat.

This lol..

[Katie1309]

A lot of vitriolic replies to this ladies article...why...is this a sign of insecurity?

What she is saying is basically fact...just open to interpretation as to the way she has said it

I could throw in another fact here about your IQ.

[Luigi]

uhhh am i missing something ?? i cant see the link to read the article in the first post. brb restarting computer

[VampireChick]

Nah, it's the opposite of fact....

Even flippant asides like 'folks who prefer treadmills want their head examined' are testament to her fundamental lack of understanding.

A treadmill's just a tool to improve aspects of one's physiology (whether it's %bf, cv fitness, whatever) and to write it off is just ignorance. If she really thought the motor running the belt was doing most of the work, let's get her on it, run it up to 16kph and then tell her to relax :pfft:

Fact is though, Chovik, that many of the Stuff or SMH readers will accept her version as the truth, and be put off. Ill-informed, preaching to the uninformed...

Well said TFB

[ThePman]

She does make two good points.

Gyms and the whole culture of fitness are commoditized and they exist largely to peddle nonsense to people who won't see any results for their trouble. Or money.

Exercise doesn't make you skinny and it doesn't cause you to lose weight. It helps, as part of an overall process, but just as many people think "gee I walked on the treadmill today, time to go stuff my face". No attention to calorie balance means that most folks will overeat at some point throughout the day and no amount of exercise can undo a bad diet.

I don't agree with her on principle, though. Her overall message is as damaging as what she's railing against.

[Superkiwi]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellbeing/5168527/Is-the-gym-making-us-fatter

What a terrible article! :x

[mr natural]

twitter profile pic=her on a couch with a glass of wine in hand, go figure

[denyalmartin]

Nice Post for me. Im a skinny person and go to the gym regularly. A lot of skinny feel like they're fat and have to stay fit and in shape. my mother when on a low carb diet and lost over 20 lbs in 6wks. try doing a detox diet along with ur regular exercise routine.

sell my car

[teamfatboy]

She does make two good points.

Gyms and the whole culture of fitness are commoditized and they exist largely to peddle nonsense to people who won't see any results for their trouble. Or money.

Exercise doesn't make you skinny and it doesn't cause you to lose weight. It helps, as part of an overall process, but just as many people think "gee I walked on the treadmill today, time to go stuff my face". No attention to calorie balance means that most folks will overeat at some point throughout the day and no amount of exercise can undo a bad diet.

I don't agree with her on principle, though. Her overall message is as damaging as what she's railing against.

Great post MrP.

[kalahariman]

just read the article, i didnt get anything degrading out of it, wat she said in short is: if it is not your sport or ambision (if it is then you will put in the effort deddication and know the trade) then it is just a big money making buseness who is well equip to draw the masses on health reasons but they will not last as we all know...they pay.....go once or twice then it is to hard because they want to do this or that and every month they have to pay membership till the contract is finish, so in short...it is not a one day mirricle but a change in live style and the want to do it.

[severe]

just read the article, i didnt get anything degrading out of it, wat she said in short is: if it is not your sport or ambision (if it is then you will put in the effort deddication and know the trade) then it is just a big money making buseness who is well equip to draw the masses on health reasons but they will not last as we all know...they pay.....go once or twice then it is to hard because they want to do this or that and every month they have to pay membership till the contract is finish, so in short...it is not a one day mirricle but a change in live style and the want to do it.

But she blames the gyms, not the people. When by your post you admit it is the people at fault. We agree.

People sign up then don't go. bad gym? perhaps. But then you get a transfer, not quit.

Quitters have excuses, not reasons.

[Xeterch]

'the fact that gyms are useless...'

She's the fkn useless one!

exactly right.

[kalahariman]

just read the article, i didnt get anything degrading out of it, wat she said in short is: if it is not your sport or ambision (if it is then you will put in the effort deddication and know the trade) then it is just a big money making buseness who is well equip to draw the masses on health reasons but they will not last as we all know...they pay.....go once or twice then it is to hard because they want to do this or that and every month they have to pay membership till the contract is finish, so in short...it is not a one day mirricle but a change in live style and the want to do it.

But she blames the gyms, not the people. When by your post you admit it is the people at fault. We agree.

People sign up then don't go. bad gym? perhaps. But then you get a transfer, not quit.

Quitters have excuses, not reasons.

agree with you totally mate, but from another angle: gyms is a buseness and have monthly targets to meet (signing off new members) to sign this members is all they are concern about..more members more contracts more money...(bonusses is getting payed, i had a friend who was sent on a boat cruise)..after they took new members in for a kontikki talk the talk etc.. they sign them one or two pt lessons, give standard (not personilise) program in hand then they left to it, next please and so on.( this might not be true to the smallish private sort of outfit) Now typical these members are new to a gym and over weight with big dreams....they are left with little or no support after that...not even to speak of the information and trraining about nitrition. The gyms typical fall short when putting programs together, it is all out the training and no or very little about the most inportant aspect of it, the nitrition, unless off coars you pay extra for a personal trainer(very expensive...few can affort)...this is just my 2 cents.....im not siding with her at all as i find her weak and lazy...and agree at the end it does comes down to the preson not the gym..