Man eff dude, click that Tim McGraw link... dude is stage ready
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ShreddedMan eff dude, click that Tim McGraw link... dude is stage ready
Actually the very end had a good summary to me:I give up
- However, eating like a predator—a diet based on meat, fish, shellfish, vegetables and fruit in season, and just enough starch to support your level of physical activity—is an excellent starting point.
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What a load of horseshyt. Due is playing with semantics in an attempt to be edgy
Smart dumb shyt personified
He is making up his own definitions and arguing with himself about it.
Im not sure i have ever read a more idiotic attempt to dispell the scientific fact of caLories in vs. Calories out.
Cant bring myself to trash it line by line, it would take all day. Yeah, Im mad
I'd read it if you didWhat a load of horseshyt. Due is playing with semantics in an attempt to be edgy
Smart dumb shyt personified
He is making up his own definitions and arguing with himself about it.
Im not sure i have ever read a more idiotic attempt to dispell the scientific fact of caLories in vs. Calories out.
Cant bring myself to trash it line by line, it would take all day. Yeah, Im mad
What a load of horseshyt. Due is playing with semantics in an attempt to be edgy
Smart dumb shyt personified
He is making up his own definitions and arguing with himself about it.
Im not sure i have ever read a more idiotic attempt to dispell the scientific fact of caLories in vs. Calories out.
Cant bring myself to trash it line by line, it would take all day. Yeah, Im mad
I took it more as a ode to nutrient qualityWhat a load of horseshyt. Due is playing with semantics in an attempt to be edgy
Smart dumb shyt personified
He is making up his own definitions and arguing with himself about it.
Im not sure i have ever read a more idiotic attempt to dispell the scientific fact of caLories in vs. Calories out.
Cant bring myself to trash it line by line, it would take all day. Yeah, Im mad
Adam3000
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I'd read it if you did
Let me try and give a condensed version of why it is a lame article. Basically, dude uses a couple poor points as his basis for the entire article then he beats them into the ground for the sake of length and to appear thorough.
His basic premise:
The entire article falls apart from the start. Because it has been shown time and time again that the "calorie is not a calorie" argument does the opposite of what it is trying to accomplish. It overcomplicates to an extreme. There is no question that the type of calories ingested have an impact on body composition, metabolism, and hormones. But for 99% of the population, that effect is so minimal that it can for all intents and purposes be ignored. Outside of professional models with muscle-dominant physiques and low single digit bodyfats, it is so small as to be nearly irrelevant. Making food choices that may alter your metabolism by a few hundred calories per day is completely insignificant when compared to making sure you don't overeat by a couple hundred calories in the first place.
He then goes one to say some of the smartest dumb shyt in the entire article
This is an intellectually dishonest statement. They way we measure a calorie outside of the body and the fact that our bodies do not use a calorie with the same methodology is completely irrelevant to the first part of his statement....which is that a 'calorie is a unit of energy transer.' Thats all that matters. How we measure it does not affect the fact that it is a consistent unit of measurement. It is a consistent way to measure energy density of food. Nothing more needs to be said.
So his next point:
Deserves no more of a response than: So what?
Now he is talking pure semantics. Whether our body wants to call something a calorie, a joule, a gizmo, a pikachu, or a mvemjsunp is irrelevant.
He then goes on to blab and blab about how our body needs "energy" to complete a variety of process. UH....NO shyt buddy thats exactly what a "calorie" is
. When discussing energy consumption, "calorie" and "energy" are interchangeable words. Replace those two words in his dissertation and the entire thing reads like 
what the fukk is this dude even rambling about.His next WTF, moments later:
His last bolded sentence is COMPLETE BULLshyt. Every single process he listed in bullet points requires a specific amount of energy to accomplish, a.k.a. a specific amount of calories. He is the only person who is claiming that a calorie only refers to immediate energy conversion from the body, and then he is arguing with himself giving pats on his own back like Barry Horowitz
His next major point:
Another point that merely gets met with a SO WHAT? He is now talking about a completely different subject. He is mostly referring to body composition and metabolic changes. There is undeniably a variation in the the "calories out" portion of the calories in vs. calories out equation, and he is trying to use this as proof that the equation isn't worth using. But as I already stated before, these differences are so small when looking at the bigger picture as to be rendered not worth looking at by overwhelming majority of people. He wants us to think calories alone are the 'small picture' while calorie type is 'big picture'....he has it completely backwards.
He then goes into a long ass breakdown of each macronutrient and their possible fates. Blah blah blah body composition blah blah blah I have already addressed this. Over-complicating shyt and claiming that he instead is simplifying it
His conclusion:
Not to be a broken record, but once again this guy has it completely backwards. Which of the following is more complicated?:
1) Eat less calories than your body burns on average
or
2) a 2,388 word essay about macronutrient differences (the actual number as measured in Word)
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Upscale gyms can be straight up 
at times. Met a buddy at a "Nicer lifetime fitness" for a lift this afternoon. Man their Locker room and especially bathroom area smelled like a project hallway.
Nice facility otherwise but damn.
at times. Met a buddy at a "Nicer lifetime fitness" for a lift this afternoon. Man their Locker room and especially bathroom area smelled like a project hallway. Nice facility otherwise but damn.
Upscale gyms can be straight up
Nice facility otherwise but damn.
i usually go to this anytime in white bear lake, shyt doesn't have every machine known to man but it got a bench, and squat rack and dumbbells...anything after that is a bonus in my book. plus the place is quiet as fukk. only problem is I'm literally probably top 5 most in shape dude I seen in there and i'm not even impressed with myself yet. pretty damn casual so you kind of have to look at your self to motivate hahaha
i agree, always kills me how the average human wants to make losing weight a fukking algorithm when getting real deep into macros and shyt only applies to people trying to get to that top tier of fitness.
I hear ya man. That's how I felt at this gym, I'm nowhere near where I'm headed but I was for sure further than a lot of cats there. everyone was doing way above parallel squats wearing knee wraps and grunting loud as hell. It was a strange scene.
I've never been in anytime fitness but that sounds ideal. Just the basics is all ya really need.
