Brea

Hi all,

Well, I have inexplicably dropped 10 pounds! After all that excitement (working out 3 hrs a day) I was just teaching dance.

Maybe I should just sit on my *ss and watch the pounds fall off.

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danceswithblades

I hope you feel the loss is a good thing. As a physio, allow me to suggest that if you were working out 3 hours a day, something was not working out for you. When we make our living standing on our feet and moving about all day long, we really only need about a half hour of cardio daily, 3 hours of strength training weekly, and whatever stretching and balance work that is appropriate for your body and level of activity. If we are sedentary, we just need a full hour of cardio in addition to the other measures. So you were overtraining and just hurting yourself; when you stopped, nature took its course.

Brea

Hi dances,

Thanks, I'll have to remember that. I wonder why the military shapes people up so well? It strikes me that they are overtraining perhaps.

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Pia

I'd guess its becuase the training and life style as a whole is very structured and designed to promote endurance.

danceswithblades

Boot camp "shapes up" people who are very young and whose bodies have a high tolerance for abuse. However, Pia is right: the lifestyle is very structured. The recruits don't have the option of sitting exhausted in front of their computer and snacking to compensate for the abuse, so they do lose weight. Is it good for them? Remember the landmark study back in the '50s on the coronary arteries on soldiers in their late teens? Found most of them had at least one artery 50% occluded or more. Weight is not the whole story...

Brea

A thought I've had recently is whether the focus on the 'obesity' issue just produces more people overly worried about their weight. That is, whether it's feeding the diet industry and causing more harm than good.

My teacher for college PE said, "Some people are just 180 pounds. That's just how they are." I was told several times that thin does not necessarily equal healthy or fit.

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jenc

I am not sure if that one works if you weigh over30lbs more than you did when you wre young.

Pia

I'd agree that thin certainly does not equal healthy,but I know that I see lots of people who are defianlty overwieght(worringly many of them very young)

Brea

How young? When I was 17 I weighed 145.

I also agree that there is a definite obesity problem. It just worries me that people who are on the edge may take it to extremes (ano, bulemia type stuff).

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Suheir

Yes, I see an alarming number of teenaged girls who are obese, also younger children. School uniform manufacturers are having to make uniform in large sizes that never existed 20 years ago due to rising obesity amongst school kids.