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Martial Arts is a great way to keep in shape. I've had my blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do for 22 years, I'm not as active in it as I used to be but still keep up with it...
Honestly, I don't know. But, I gained weight while doing martial arts.
That article is ridiculous. No one ever claimed that 5 lbs of muscle weighs more than 5 lbs of fat That doesnt even make sense. The article is arguing against an argument that isnt even an argument. in their photographic 'proof' they even had to use a bigger volume of fat than muscle to get the same weight. So the muscle DOES weight more than the same volume of fat. Its like showing 5 lbs of lead and 5 lbs of feathers and saying they weight the same, so lead isnt heavier than feathers. whoever wrote that is a mouth breather
Right, but so often I hear the "muscle weighs more than fat" to justify one's appearance being bigger, or actually growing in size. The article clearly dispells that myth. Even if you GAIN weight by replacing fat with muscle, then you should at the very least stay the same size if not get smaller because the muscle takes up less volume. When I did gymnastics some of the coaches who were still really active would get their body fat measured. These were lean, muscular, fit looking guys. The smaller their body fat percentage, the more lean and fit they looked, not the other way around. You don't go from looking fat b/c you have a lot of fat to looking even fatter because you lost fat and replaced it with muscle.
The article is arguing against an argument that isnt even an argument.
That's kind of the point. Have you never heard anyone use that excuse? I hear it all the time.
Whats the excuse? Maybe I'm missing something. A fat person saying they're heavy because they're muscular?
I usually hear it from people who are suprised they gained weight. They started working out but they either don't work out properly or they actually start to eat more because they're working out etc... When they find out they've actually gained weight they usually have the excuse that: "well muscle weighs more than fat".
I've heard it all my life, especially now more than ever working in the medical field.
I really don't think race is an issue here. If there's a general tendency in American society for people to be quicker to deem an individual "fat" on the basis of skin color specifically, I've never noticed it. Gender could always potentially be an issue, since the aesthetic preference for slender female bodies is stronger than the preference for slender male bodies. So yes, it'd be difficult to rule out the possibility that perceptions of her figure as "unattractive"--a judgment having zilch to do with health--might be exaggerating any concerns here. But, she is being nominated for Surgeon General after all, the highest-ranking public health position one can hold in this country. If you go to the Office of the Surgeon General's website, you'll see that 'Childhood Obesity Prevention' is their lead campaign right now, and that their advice is geared towards measures meant for children and adults to follow together, which only makes sense. And realistically, if you're a parent who's having trouble motivating yourself to help your overweight or obese child become more fit, it's not gonna help if the doctors advising you on that issue are overweight or obese too, because Look, this doc clearly doesn't practice what s/he preaches, so it can't be that important. Is that actually in the doctor's job description, nope, but the reality is it influences patients' perceptions nonetheless.would anyone be questioning "her weight" and therefore credibility for selection if she were a white male?
i doubt it.
would anyone be questioning "her weight" and therefore credibility for selection if she were a white male?
i doubt it.
If there's a general tendency in American society for people to be quicker to deem an individual "fat" on the basis of skin color specifically, I've never noticed it.
such a knee jerk response
You don't think overweight men have it slightly easier than overweight women?
Hmmm, interesting. I haven't personally heard comments of either type you're describing; then again, maybe I'm out of touch from having spent most of my last two decades in an academic environment, which is definitely a fairly health- and fitness- (and appearance-) conscious one. Although, now that I think about it, I have occasionally heard colleagues make jokes in poor form about 'fat' students (to other faculty, I mean--not in front of students!), whereas I don't think I've ever heard them joke about overweight faculty, even though there certainly are some. And obviously there's a socially hierarchical relationship there, the teacher-student thing, greater temptation to prematurely lump people into imaginary good/bad 'character' boxes and so on. (Course, we probably don't want to know what the students say behind our backs, lol...)I think if you already have race issues you are quicker to point out overweight people of the race you have issues with... Here where I live it just adds to the "lazy mexican" "lazy ******" stereotype. I live in one of the fattest cities in the U.S. and it doesn't matter about color, but one thing I've noticed that the overweight white woman is quicker to point out the overweight black woman as "fat" than they are themselves or another overweight white woman. Because of what I do, I'm surrounded by diabetics, most of which are obese, and instead of having empathy for one each other they just seem to be oblivious to their own health issues and talk about those that are slightly fatter than they are
And its completely possible to add muscle, not lose fat, and get bigger/heavier....probably not in these people's cases though.
eh? Maybe if you already have no/very little fat to lose....
I'm not trying to be offensive or whatever
Martial Arts is a great way to keep in shape. I've had my blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do for 22 years, I'm not as active in it as I used to be but still keep up with it...
you loose it quick.
Martial Arts is a great way to keep in shape. I've had my blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do for 22 years, I'm not as active in it as I used to be but still keep up with it...
eh? Maybe if you already have no/very little fat to lose....
But yeah, what BVS said. I hear it all the time as well. Overweight people start working out....and they're not losing weight or getting smaller, usually because they are not eating healthy or the exercise is only marginal, but I hear "well muscle weighs more than fat..." as if it's normal/appropriate to stay the same size or even get bigger while supposedly working out a lot more. I don't think so. If you are really working out, then you are burning fat regardless of also adding muscle. If you are working out and getting bigger in size (not necessarily weight) and/or not getting any more toned, then you are doing something wrong.
I'm not trying to be offensive or whatever, I personally know people who do this and use this excuse and doesn't mean I care one way or the other about their weight or my weight. But the excuse makes no sense.
I guarantee they work out all the time. they're fat and they're muscular. Since they only really do heavy lifting, they arent going to burn fat
Thats not true. If you're lifting heavy weights and doing no cardio, you wont burn fat. It doesnt matter if you have a lot of a little. Heavy lifting doesnt burn fat.
Yeah they look like they eat all the time too. And how much time do they actually spend lifting? Lifting a truck once every few minutes isn't really the type of workout I meant. The people I know "working out" and not losing weight or gaining much muscle are not trying to set world records. If you are doing reps like normal people in a gym you should build muscle AND burn calories. Maybe not burn as many calories as a cardio workout or build as much muscle as a weight lifting champion but those guys are beside the point.
Sure it does, so long as your caloric intake is less than your caloric expenditure.
Fat will be burned as soon as you consume less than your energy output. It's just that cardio work burns calories faster.