What are some of your unpopular fitness related opinions?

"Oh I am overweight because I gave birth recently" with the definition of "recent" ranging up to 10 years

No, you are overweight because you consumed more calories than your body required and still doing so or at least maintaining. Put simply, you eat too much.

Same as the weight loss industry. It's all about calorie deficit but you gotta attach some bells and whistles to get away with the latest weight loss fad.

Option 1- maintain a slight calorie deficit and loss weight gradually over time

Option 2 - maintain a significant calorie deficit and lose weight very quickly while taking some snake oil, and pay €100 per month

Option 2 is very popular.

You shouldnt be eating that rubbish anyway..😉

It's like the trick supermarkets play. For example say, pack of 10 oranges €3.00 and it says "per pack" in small writing but loose oranges are €1.00 per kilo so it become pretty much impossible to work out which is better value.

I get your point, but it's all relative really. Walking a marathon is probably 7+ hours. If we say the 5-6ers are not running they are jogging, then we should probably apply that to 4hrs group too. I bet there would be quite a few pissed off on the ART forum is they were told their times weren't good enough for running.

5-6 hours might sound pathetic to you, but I your times sound pathetic to a international cailibre runner. And so on. If you take anything to a high level, and keep going, age will eventually catch up on you. Sometimes getting better is no longer an option, but people still enjoy it. If somebody is able to set PBs at 50, it's probably because they had no performance at 30

It's a weird one. But I'd assume it means more professional branding and colour scheme rather than the garish colour of the main globogym brands

Running a Marathon is an achievement, but so is running a 10K, my question is for large numbers of marathon hobbyists, is it worth it ? I get the idea that the bigger the challenge the bigger the motivation but thats basically down to telling yourself a story to get something done, there appear to be a lot of downsides to marathon running

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• Debilitating osteoarthritis . . . at a young age
• Permanent scarring of the heart muscle
• A weakening of the thyroid and adrenal glands
• Tendonitis and other repetitive strain injuries
• Recurrent upper respiratory infections
• Permanently damaged feet (my chiropractor says long-distance runners have some of the worst feet he’s ever seen)
• Increased oxidative damage (free radical production)
• Decreased fat metabolism
• Susceptibility to injury
• Loss of bone density
• Depletion of lean muscle tissue
• Hormone imbalances that are difficult to rectify (women)
• High refined carbohydrate intake promotes a dangerous level of continuous systemic inflammation.

Eat proportionately more carbs than calories.