For one simple reason. It hardly burns any energy.
If you're doing a moderate-intensity cardio session three times a week that burns, say, 400 calories per session (that's a 3-4 mile run for most of you), that averages to 170 per day, 1200 per week, or 4800 every 28 days. Assuming a pound of fat contains 3500 calories (there's actually slight variability in this depending on the person), that's just under 1.5 pounds every 4 weeks. When you're lean enough for that to make a huge difference, it's fine, but if you don't already have visible abs, it's pointless. You could literally make that same difference exchanging a cup of white rice for a cup of riced cauliflower, or a candy bar for an apple. Weightlifting is even worse -- you can expect to burn 100-200 calories in a single hour-long session, and that's if you're doing everything right. If you're doing 3-4 sessions a day, that's 300-600 per week or 43-86 per day. You can eat that back by complete accident from rounding errors. Even if you're a tryhard who lifts weight 6 times a week, that's still 600-1200 a week, that's still the same energy output as the cardio, but over 6 hours rather than the 1.5-2 hours you spent on the cardio.
The blackpilled leanmaxxer knows that the only effective exercise to lose fat is the fork put-down. You can run on the treadmill until you think you're about to drop dead, then either waste all that sweat and pain with a bowl of cereal, or not, and it'll make maybe 10% more of the difference.
This may be obvious to some or most of you, but nobody in real life seems to get this. They think they can waddle in some spin class for 30 minutes and they'll lose weight without giving up their fried rice and buttered bagels. It's absurd.
If you're doing a moderate-intensity cardio session three times a week that burns, say, 400 calories per session (that's a 3-4 mile run for most of you), that averages to 170 per day, 1200 per week, or 4800 every 28 days. Assuming a pound of fat contains 3500 calories (there's actually slight variability in this depending on the person), that's just under 1.5 pounds every 4 weeks. When you're lean enough for that to make a huge difference, it's fine, but if you don't already have visible abs, it's pointless. You could literally make that same difference exchanging a cup of white rice for a cup of riced cauliflower, or a candy bar for an apple. Weightlifting is even worse -- you can expect to burn 100-200 calories in a single hour-long session, and that's if you're doing everything right. If you're doing 3-4 sessions a day, that's 300-600 per week or 43-86 per day. You can eat that back by complete accident from rounding errors. Even if you're a tryhard who lifts weight 6 times a week, that's still 600-1200 a week, that's still the same energy output as the cardio, but over 6 hours rather than the 1.5-2 hours you spent on the cardio.
The blackpilled leanmaxxer knows that the only effective exercise to lose fat is the fork put-down. You can run on the treadmill until you think you're about to drop dead, then either waste all that sweat and pain with a bowl of cereal, or not, and it'll make maybe 10% more of the difference.
This may be obvious to some or most of you, but nobody in real life seems to get this. They think they can waddle in some spin class for 30 minutes and they'll lose weight without giving up their fried rice and buttered bagels. It's absurd.
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