I never heard anything like that. All I know is it shocks your metabolism since it burns tons of calories. It’s counter intuitive, but burning so many calories ends up making you fat, since your body goes “oh shit, we need more energy! Store more glucose as fat and burn fat slower!”
So yeah, fuck cardio. It’s shit on your joints and it’s shit on your gut. Plus, if you stop exercising for one week, you lose all your progress and have no endurance.
Muscle exercises are vastly superior due to muscle memory allowing you to not suffer as badly from taking a break from exercising, and how muscles naturally burn calories consistently without much work needed on your end.
That's exactly what I needed to hear, thanks. I knew it vaguely, but this is a good concise summary.
I usually use an elliptical but even that might be too much cardio.
Correct. Walk or do HIIT. Cardio releases cortisol, which makes you (and me) crave.
Yeah, those exercises are hard, guess that's why they work.
Last thing I need is raised cortisol levels, I'm already jumpy and on edge enough.
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