Intense exercise best for whittling down fat

Reinventing the wheel alert!

This article is both good and sad news rolled into one.

First the (mostly) good:

"While any type of exercise can do a body good, people who want to reshape their figures may need to boost the intensity of their workouts, a small study suggests.

The study, which followed 27 middle-aged obese women, found that those who exercised at a high intensity for four months successfully shed fat from their midsections. Women who exercised at a low intensity, however, showed no such changes in body fat.

The findings suggest that for people who want to change their body composition, the intensity of the exercise is matters, researchers report in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise."

I qualified the first part with "mostly" since not "any type of exercise" WILL do a body good, which is different from "can."

Now the bad:

This is silly, stupid, ignorant research.

Anybody who knows square one about fitness knows that only physical activity at training intensity will result in improved fitness, i.e., increased capacity of one or both of the energy producing pathways of the body (aerobic and anaerobic) and the concomitant changes in body composition, i.e., less fat and more muscle.

These are the natural outcomes of a proper training program.

That these morons are now "discovering" this truth is embarrassing and serves to show why sick care, physicians, etc., are the exact wrong "leaders" to follow.

As a rule of thumb, do not follow stupid leaders.

Get smarter on fitness and do it on your own without waiting for the fools to catch up - assuming they ever will.