You'll be tempted to lose yourself in a fairytale where calories don't count,
exercise is useless, and avoiding certain foods, toxins, or macronutrients will help you stay slender forever.
So, you know, please don't call in and say, you know, Lustig says
exercise is useless, not at all.
Trying to go heavy on an assistance
exercise is useless, if not outright dangerous, like trying to ramp up to 3 rep max on a stiff - legged deadlift or doing 100 lbs cable triceps pushdowns.
In that context,
any exercise is useless if you don't lift the weight via muscular action.
Knowing that if I bust my butt to work out, and don't change how I eat, then
the exercise is useless.
This does not mean that non-specific
exercises are useless for rugby, merely that they lay the physical foundation for exercises that do.
Most abs
exercises are useless.
Ie, next 2 negative line items — ● Isolation
exercises are useless.
Not exact matches
This
exercise will
be completely
useless unless you actually write things down.
So discovering someone who has an undiagnosed arrhythmia isn't a
useless exercise: Rather, it might just save a life.
Telling someone after the fact when they should have bought and sold
is a
useless exercise.
The reason truth
is basically
useless (with regard to religious faith and
exercise)
is because people do not KNOW the truth.
By the time of the Maccabees, for example, the practice of keeping the Sabbath
was so central to Judaism that, according to Josephus, the Romans had to exempt the Jews from military service because they
were useless as soldiers on the Sabbath.12 Seneca could not understand the Sabbath
exercise and chided the Jews for spending every seventh day of their lives in idleness.13
The pope cautiously distinguishes between the modem absolutist and centralist
exercise of the primacy and the biblically based Petrine office and its
exercise during the first millennium, and he invites other Christians «to engage with me in a patient and fraternal dialogue on this subject, a dialogue in which, leaving
useless controversies behind, we could listen to one another, keeping before us only the will of Christ for his Church and allowing ourselves to
be deeply moved by his plea» for unity.
I
am not trying to prove anything to anybody — that
is a completely
useless exercise.
So pointing out all these instances where I
am judgemental
was rather
useless, donâ $ ™ t you think, since I had already admitted to
exercising judgement?
I think everyone wonders if the choices they made
were ultimately the best choices, even if we logically know that that
's a
useless exercise to indulge in, and even if we feel totally confident about what we chose.
This may sound a bit contradictory to the previous myth on our list, but just because isolation
exercises shouldn't
be the focus of your training program, doesn't mean they
are entirely
useless.
I felt like stopping short and had negative voices telling me I
was useless the whole time, but I pushed through and completed all repetitions and sets of each
exercise.
Besides
being terribly boring, your sessions of 20 + repetitions of one
exercise using an unnoticeable amount of weight
are literally
useless.
On a side note, most of the guys who find this
exercise to
be useless are guilty of lifting via momentum and using too much weight.
That
's how strong, impressive drug - free bodies
are built, not loafing around the gym half the day, sitting on every
useless exercise machine there, and deluding yourself into thinking you
're working hard.
The majority of these programs use
exercises that
are utterly
useless outside of the gym (wrist curls, calf raises etc.) and do not translate into athletics or real world activities.
I
'm not saying here that isolation
exercises (the ones that involve one joint)
are useless.
Many forms of mobility
exercises probably
are helpful, and I
'm not saying they
're all
useless or overrated.
Apart from
exercise, BCAA's
are relatively
useless.
- Finally, of course this doesn't make continuous
exercise useless, continuous
exercise is safer, some prefer it and it
is more applicable to long distance races.
Miscellaneous; excellent notes on using Vitamin C, diuretics, breathing, bodybuilding for men over forty, Vince's views on drugs, including interesting tips such as «why single arm training
is useless», «why it
is necessary to come up on the big toe while doing calf
exercises», etc..
The worst part
is that these
exercises are pretty much
useless when it comes to building strength or losing fat.
If you
are not wasting your training time on
useless crap and have worked up to some heavy ass weights in your compound
exercises, then you should have
been scared to lift that amount of weight at least once.
How to eliminate the nasty
exercises and
useless machines that
are WASTING YOUR TIME and may even
be making you more injury prone!
There
are many
exercises with the stability ball that can provide specific benefits to the trainee compared to if they
were not to use the ball at all in their workouts, but there
are also plenty of instances where using a stability ball
is pointless, or even less than
useless in some cases!
Any attempt to decrease
exercise - induced ROS production with antioxidant supplements
is not only
useless in terms increasing strength, performance, and recovery, but may
be worse than
useless (1), possibly canceling out much of your hard work in the gym.
The Commuter
was certainly conceived as more of action movie than Murder on the Orient Express
was, but it justifies its existence and doesn't feel like a
useless exercise in showing off your A-list cast.
Independence Day: Resurgence
is a painful, obtuse
exercise in a most cynical and
useless form of cash - grabbing (The ending promises another sequel).
And if you can't pin down Amazon's volume and market growth (ignoring the even greater challenge of placing a dollar figure on it, which
is what the industry
is most interested in), comparing other stores» perceived volumes to Amazon
is a pretty
useless exercise.
This
is isn't because building a «portfolio optimizer»
is difficult: it
's because it
's a
useless exercise.
We can't even predict the present economy with much certainty, so coming up with cost - benefits under the new conditions, while a valuable academic
exercise,
is almost certainly
useless.
In an ideal human condition, where cities and neighborhoods
are planned out with the pedestrian in mind, the calories we use with our bodies wouldn't
be wasted on vain or
useless activities, such as
exercise.
Doesn't Naseem Taleb argue that speculating or using thin tail probabilities
is essentially a
useless exercise because their relative uncertainty when combined with vulnerability can lead to a very wide range of possible impacts.
Custody battles in court often become a
useless clash to prove who
is the better parent — an
exercise that fails to consider what
is actually in any child's best interest.
All this advice
is great, but when you
are confronted with the situation of a family court judge imposing a full no - contact restraining order, with no reasons given or existent, from your child, then «fighting back» against parental alienation
is a
useless academic
exercise.