<story><title>A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout</title><url>https://www.studyfinds.org/exercise-each-day-builds-muscle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pius_IX</author><text>Being healthy and being fit is mostly about being healthy and being fit. There are obviously countless ways to get closer to that goal, the gym and calorie counting being one way.&lt;p&gt;Saying stuff like &amp;#x27;we should try to focus on whole foods and not calories&amp;#x27; is a pretty bad take if you ask me. Contrasting that immediately with &amp;#x27;a body builder prepping for a show&amp;#x27; is just ridiculous. One is good advice to form part of a healthy lifestyle, the other is a way of life for a tiny group of professional athletes.&lt;p&gt;There goes more into a healthy diet than just eating lots of whole foods - although whole foods are obviously awesome and healthy. Notice that the linked article compares two groups eating processed and processed with the one eating the processed foods &lt;i&gt;eating 500 more calories a day&lt;/i&gt;. They don&amp;#x27;t gain weight magically but because they ate the less satiating food and as a result &lt;i&gt;ate more calories&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;And simply saying &amp;#x27;Instead we should focus on daily fun movements that we like to do. So it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like a chore and easy to maintain within your lifestyle.&amp;#x27; is such a weird take. Have you ever considered that some people enjoy going to the gym? On the other hand I personally couldn&amp;#x27;t imagine anything more boring than body weight exercises. In the end it is up to the individual to chose the lifestyle that they enjoy, so please stop selling your personal favorite as if any other choices &amp;#x27;are large time investments that can be better spent elsewhere&amp;#x27;. I very much enjoy my time spend at the gym, thank you very much.</text></item><item><author>Attummm</author><text>The focus of the people you have linked is about exercise in the context of a gym and diet is about calories. I would like to argue that being healthy and fit is not about the gym, or investing time in tracking calories.&lt;p&gt;Instead we should focus on daily fun movements that we like to do. So it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like a chore and easy to maintain within your lifestyle. This could fall under different categories such cardio (walking , cycling) and some resistance training like body weight exercises.  These are called Micro workouts, and can be done during the day. A great (nerdy) guy who is quite far on that path is  the bioneer.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pWuKIlbybqY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pWuKIlbybqY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And for food we should try to focus on whole foods and not calories and almost no-one should try to diet like a body builder prepping for a show. They feel terrible and you are priming the body to store energy in the fat cells.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;staying-healthy&amp;#x2F;stop-counting-calories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;staying-healthy&amp;#x2F;stop-counting...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Humans have been healthy for very long without the gym or calorie counting. Both are large time investments that can be better spent elsewhere</text></item><item><author>radu_floricica</author><text>Probably relevant for the HN crowd: there&amp;#x27;s a bunch of very geeky next gen fitness guys that keep up with the cutting edge of fitness research, and occasionally expand it themselves. If you&amp;#x27;re reading them, this kind of thing is being discussed for years, with new studies just moving the odds a bit in favor of the current hypothesis. Yes, they&amp;#x27;re very Bayesian, explicitly so.&lt;p&gt;A few names&amp;#x2F;links, pick and mix as you will - they&amp;#x27;re all good:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mennohenselmans.com&amp;#x2F;high-resistance-training-frequency-enhances-muscle-thickness-resistance-trained-men&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mennohenselmans.com&amp;#x2F;high-resistance-training-frequen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lookgreatnaked.com&amp;#x2F;fitness_articles_by_brad_schoenfeld.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lookgreatnaked.com&amp;#x2F;fitness_articles_by_brad_schoe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;macrofactorapp.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;macrofactorapp.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rpstrength.com&amp;#x2F;team-member&amp;#x2F;mike-israetel-phd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rpstrength.com&amp;#x2F;team-member&amp;#x2F;mike-israetel-phd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probably not the best links for each, but it&amp;#x27;s morning and I got work to do. Should be enough to get you started tho.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Attummm</author><text>Seems like you misread the thread. The comment is against the training schedules that have been provided that are only about gym and calorie tracking.&lt;p&gt;And that we &amp;quot;could&amp;quot; also do other things. Like in the video from the bioneer.&lt;p&gt;But it seems you read &amp;quot;should&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;My comment is not against training of any kind. And if the gym is your place where you get it done great, but if you have busy life and your unable to find the time or are unable to commit regularily. Then there are other options that will fit anyone schedule.</text></comment>
<story><title>A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout</title><url>https://www.studyfinds.org/exercise-each-day-builds-muscle/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Pius_IX</author><text>Being healthy and being fit is mostly about being healthy and being fit. There are obviously countless ways to get closer to that goal, the gym and calorie counting being one way.&lt;p&gt;Saying stuff like &amp;#x27;we should try to focus on whole foods and not calories&amp;#x27; is a pretty bad take if you ask me. Contrasting that immediately with &amp;#x27;a body builder prepping for a show&amp;#x27; is just ridiculous. One is good advice to form part of a healthy lifestyle, the other is a way of life for a tiny group of professional athletes.&lt;p&gt;There goes more into a healthy diet than just eating lots of whole foods - although whole foods are obviously awesome and healthy. Notice that the linked article compares two groups eating processed and processed with the one eating the processed foods &lt;i&gt;eating 500 more calories a day&lt;/i&gt;. They don&amp;#x27;t gain weight magically but because they ate the less satiating food and as a result &lt;i&gt;ate more calories&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;And simply saying &amp;#x27;Instead we should focus on daily fun movements that we like to do. So it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like a chore and easy to maintain within your lifestyle.&amp;#x27; is such a weird take. Have you ever considered that some people enjoy going to the gym? On the other hand I personally couldn&amp;#x27;t imagine anything more boring than body weight exercises. In the end it is up to the individual to chose the lifestyle that they enjoy, so please stop selling your personal favorite as if any other choices &amp;#x27;are large time investments that can be better spent elsewhere&amp;#x27;. I very much enjoy my time spend at the gym, thank you very much.</text></item><item><author>Attummm</author><text>The focus of the people you have linked is about exercise in the context of a gym and diet is about calories. I would like to argue that being healthy and fit is not about the gym, or investing time in tracking calories.&lt;p&gt;Instead we should focus on daily fun movements that we like to do. So it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like a chore and easy to maintain within your lifestyle. This could fall under different categories such cardio (walking , cycling) and some resistance training like body weight exercises.  These are called Micro workouts, and can be done during the day. A great (nerdy) guy who is quite far on that path is  the bioneer.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pWuKIlbybqY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pWuKIlbybqY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And for food we should try to focus on whole foods and not calories and almost no-one should try to diet like a body builder prepping for a show. They feel terrible and you are priming the body to store energy in the fat cells.
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;staying-healthy&amp;#x2F;stop-counting-calories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;staying-healthy&amp;#x2F;stop-counting...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Humans have been healthy for very long without the gym or calorie counting. Both are large time investments that can be better spent elsewhere</text></item><item><author>radu_floricica</author><text>Probably relevant for the HN crowd: there&amp;#x27;s a bunch of very geeky next gen fitness guys that keep up with the cutting edge of fitness research, and occasionally expand it themselves. If you&amp;#x27;re reading them, this kind of thing is being discussed for years, with new studies just moving the odds a bit in favor of the current hypothesis. Yes, they&amp;#x27;re very Bayesian, explicitly so.&lt;p&gt;A few names&amp;#x2F;links, pick and mix as you will - they&amp;#x27;re all good:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mennohenselmans.com&amp;#x2F;high-resistance-training-frequency-enhances-muscle-thickness-resistance-trained-men&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mennohenselmans.com&amp;#x2F;high-resistance-training-frequen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lookgreatnaked.com&amp;#x2F;fitness_articles_by_brad_schoenfeld.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lookgreatnaked.com&amp;#x2F;fitness_articles_by_brad_schoe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;macrofactorapp.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;macrofactorapp.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rpstrength.com&amp;#x2F;team-member&amp;#x2F;mike-israetel-phd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rpstrength.com&amp;#x2F;team-member&amp;#x2F;mike-israetel-phd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probably not the best links for each, but it&amp;#x27;s morning and I got work to do. Should be enough to get you started tho.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>appel_user</author><text>That is the link from the post you are replying too it&amp;#x27;s from Harvard Medical.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;staying-healthy&amp;#x2F;stop-counting-calories&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.health.harvard.edu&amp;#x2F;staying-healthy&amp;#x2F;stop-counting...&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;
&amp;quot;This idea of &amp;#x27;a calorie in and a calorie out&amp;#x27; when it comes to weight loss is not only antiquated, it&amp;#x27;s just wrong,&amp;quot; says Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity specialist and assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;edit:
| And simply saying &amp;#x27;Instead we should focus on daily fun movements that we like to do. So it doesn&amp;#x27;t feel like a chore and easy to maintain within your lifestyle.&amp;#x27; is such a weird take&lt;p&gt;Did you watched youtube link provided?
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pWuKIlbybqY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=pWuKIlbybqY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because after watching it, it makes allot of sense. And your points are all addressed there.</text></comment>