Is this true? lol

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heyhey guys! errrm this sounds a bit farfetched to me, not sure if it's true, but i'm subscribes to heeeeaps of fitness newsletters and stuff (who isn't LOL) and this one came up, is it TRUE regarding walking and storing bodyfat?!?!?!? :S

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Hi Rob,

I walk for 30 min every evening. Does this help me burn enough
fat or should I be walking more than 30 minutes every day?

Thanks
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Alright, if you've read anything from me about walking before,
you'll know I'm not a big fan of this activity for fat
burning...here's why:

1. Walking for 30 minutes (even every day) hardly burns enough
calories to lose a significant amount of body fat.

2. Moderate steady state walking, repeated day after day, week
after week will teach your body to STORE MORE BODY FAT as a
reserve that will be available for your next walking session.

This is because your body primarily burns fat during this
exercise...which in turn teaches the body that it needs fat
available to use as fuel if it encounters this exercise again.

Unless you're extremely obese and sedentary, this type of
exercise has little value and will just leave you frustrated
with all of the time spent and such little results to show for
it...

...What you need to be doing (if you want to burn off that thick
blanket of blubber and totally reshape your body) is exercising
with various high and low points of intensity. You should also
be strengthening your body and building metabolically charged
lean muscle tissue (like we do with the Fat Burning Furnace
exercise routines)-

-here you are burning carbs as your primary fuel source, and
teaching your body to store incoming calories as fuel for your
muscles, not as fat.

Wouldn't you rather burn fat like a machine while building lean
and se.xy muscle tone, strength, and flexibility with only 2 or
3 workouts each week f.or only 15-26 minutes at a time? It's a
NO BRAINER!
 
<div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">2. Moderate steady state walking, repeated day after day, week
after week will teach your body to STORE MORE BODY FAT as a
reserve that will be available for your next walking session.

This is because your body primarily burns fat during this
exercise...which in turn teaches the body that it needs fat
available to use as fuel if it encounters this exercise again.</div>

Yes, walking will magically make you store more bodyfat when you are in a calorie deficit. Nevermind the fact that being in a calorie deficit makes you lose body mass. Walking negates that somehow.
 
Its ridiculous. The author is using his own blend of logic and imagination. He tells the inquirer why walking stores fat but that isn't a real mechanism. That's why in science you must demonstrate causality to have a valid claim. In this case establishing causality means articulating step by tedious step how brisk walking incurs fat storage - a discussion that would entail talk about signaling and cell mechanics. If you asked the writer about how this fat storage occurs he would likely just repeat himself: &quot;It teaches the body...&quot; or &quot;The body learns...&quot; Anytime you ask anyone a penetrating question and they simply repeat themselves its a sign that something is wrong. If they are trying to convince you of something it means they don't know what they are talking about. If you are asking them a sensitive question it means they don't want to talk about it further, which is more or less the definition of equivocation. Politicians do this all the time right in front of us on television.
 
A number of years ago I was teaching in China. My schedule allowed me to walk every day for about an hour. I lost 8 cm off my waist in just under three months doing no other exercise (of course, I was also on a calorie restricted diet).
 
Please cancel your subscription for this magazine!

On the other hand; which one was it so I can have a few laughs later on in the year.

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HAHAHA YEAH i thought so, what a load of crap, it's using some very strange logic, like saying that if u poke your eyes enough with a stick, the body will learn to build a protective spaceshield lol
 
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