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Comment on Open Letter to Obese People at the Gym by dieslgrl

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What many obese don’t realize is that the equipment at the health club DO HAVE WEIGHT LIMITS! It is better to try and invest in a simple cardio machine (with appropriate weight limit) you can use in your home to begin your 30 minutes a day of SOME activity. It is better to begin with activity, rather than complicated workout plans. To make teeny tiny goals is the best way to make it stick. I say, start with 2 minutes a day for 2 weeks. Then at week 3, up it to 3 minutes, and so on and so forth. This is a real approach to the time that it has taken to gain and maintain such girth. This is not for the relatively active human, only for those who have spent the last many number of years predominately sedentary. I’ve been a personal trainer for 15 years and have worked with a fair number of morbid obese clients. It is true in that crunches will not do much good. Best to start with core endurance, rather than core strength. The simple task of standing tall during the day is endurance. The slouched postures and lower back pain is all due to this inability to use your core over a period of time. Crunches do in fact only hit the iliopsoas, for those without proper form, which leads to more lower back pain.
Cardio + endurance core training (e.g. planks, any ab flexion, and erector spinae extension HOLDS) + Clean food & less calories= very fast weight loss and the cure for depression.
I get what the author is getting at, but I agree with the replies that find his “method” counterproductive. When trying to “help” those who fight obesity, it is better to start with small goals and work with their psychology. It wasn’t their body that made them fat, it was their minds/brain. To reverse that process, it must start with some true counseling on the part of the personal trainer/nutritionist/physician. It never helps to put them down to make them feel worse than they already do.

We do wish for a world with less obesity, but the worst thing you can do is to call them out and make the problem worse.

To the obese woman on bodybuilding.com program? I applaud your efforts, but do hope that this program sticks. It sounds like you found someone who is motivating to you, however I wonder what will happen after your 90 day challenge is up. What will you do then? How will you continue to keep the weight off? Will you continue to follow more programs until you finally relapse and start all over again? Why not make an action plan for AFTER that time is up, rather than worry about your leg press stats now? Great job regardless.

Dieslgrl.


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