Lots of ppl shared their story. Looks like u didnt read it… then accuse ppl making things up
Lots of people didn’t… How many fights have you yourself seen in a gym? I have never seen it….
Why scare people? Are you afraid they will look better than you in the gym?
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I ran into aggressive Karen types at the gym too, makes a mountain out of a mole hill more often than not. I stay away from them.
Some of them I think it’s because they use too much steroid.
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First off, that is amazing.
I would recommend finding some fitness YouTube channels to start learning about different exercises and how to do them.
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Zone 2 is good, but you need some intensity. Yet another study that supports this. 4-9x as effective, is what this study shows.
Zone 2 is great, but misunderstood by many. It’s awesome to build a base with lower injury risk at all levels, and for needed volume for advanced folks, but people doing low volume thinking they need to live there to burn fat or put 80% of their volume there like the pros don’t quite get it.
Yes, I agree. The pros can do 80% zone 2 because they’re working out so damn much, and so that still leaves literally hours every week to do intense workouts. And zone 2 for them is a brisk pace for us regular folks, and so probably still a good workout physiologically. I remember running behind an ultra distance runner that I knew. I fell in behind him for a couple of laps on the track after he passed me. After the two laps, I thanked him then slowed down. I asked him during our two laps if this is the pace he always runs. He said, yes, zone 2 most of the time. That definitely wasn’t zone 2 for me, I remember thinking.
What does zone 2 mean? Are they speaking of heart rate as in % of target heart rate?
Then you got that marathon runner who is fat, which makes me think just because you exercise doesn’t mean you won’t be fat.
I often hear it described as exercise during which you can hold a conversation. You should feel like you could go and go for hours (and some do go for hours at zone 2).
That doesn’t seem particularly strenuous.
So are we supposed to be at zone 2?
Zone 2 for me is a brisk walk, but at least when it’s cool it’s not anything hard for me. High humidity and temperature makes every[hing harder.
You can decide on your own ratio, but we should have some intensity. As the video suggests, the greatest gains come from higher intensity. For pros, who might do 30 hours of exercise a week, for example, following an 80/20 rule can make sense (80% zone 2, 20% high intensity). For us normal folks, 80/20 doesn’t make sense, at least not for me.
In my case (5 workouts per week and 3 or 4 are 30 minute swims), I probably invert that, meaning I will do maybe around 80% of my workouts at high intensity. Some are at very high intensity. I back off once or twice a week and take it easy. I do a long mountain run now and then at zone 2. So some weeks the ratio changes by quite a bit.
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the pros have to do 80% zone 2 to get enough volume while not killing themselves so they’re able to recover.
Sheeiiiiiiiit, zone 2 for pro marathoners is an easy 2 hour run is max 1 mile pace for most rec runners.
The zones are the targets, as percentage of max hr (generally, sometimes hr at percentage of lactic threshold depending on what resources you have available and what you want to do).
Did you ever actually think otherwise?
Well our present culture, particularly Asian culture takes fat shaming to a new level. So conventional wisdom thinks fat people are lazy and couldn’t possibly be an athlete.
But I can’t do high intensity for that long, I try to do it as much as I can stand it, but man I wish I could put an elliptical machine inside that Costco walk in fridge sometimes because if I go high intensity, the sweating and heating stops me long before lactic acid kicks in.
But lactic acid kicks in when climbing stairs, usually at around the 5th floor. That never moves no matter how long I climb those stairs daily.
it’s been suggested to you that you build your aerobic base, but you didn’t want to do that, so…
What’s there to get worked about? The entire conversation is almost certainly made up.