Thu, Oct-01-09, 15:50
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Senior Member
Posts: 6,498
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
BF:
Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Originally Posted by kdill
Absolutely Wrong.
It has been shown repeatedly that people lose more fat while exercising and dieting than on diet alone. What they may not loose is more weight. Why, because exercise, particularly resistance training, will reverse sarcopenia in previously untrained subjects leading an increase in lean mass.
a pretty graph and summary for you
http://www.exrx.net/FatLoss/WTCalLBWStudy.html
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8 week program and only 4.47kg average total weight loss on diet alone? That's a seriously poor performance for a diet. Cutting out carbs will produce much, much better weight loss in a much, much shorter time. Oh, and all that with zero hunger.
The two statements below are equivalent:
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Originally Posted by Scars
I'm contending that the lack of results for exercisers is more a psychologically-driven fallacy that they can eat whatever they choose as long as they exercise.
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Originally Posted by M Levac
Exactly. Exercise is useless for fat loss. Unless diet is controlled. But then if diet is controlled, it's not exercise that caused fat loss, it's diet.
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So, if you think my statement is wrong, then you also think Scars' statement is wrong. But that can't be, you've been arguing in favor of exercise, so has he.
Last edited by M Levac : Thu, Oct-01-09 at 15:57.
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