revived this thread.
Hrrrrmm..
Is it possible that the entirety of the _workout_ genre is a maladaptive response to societal sickness ?
At every point, we have ### resources.
Only by over-consumption would there ever be a mechanical reason to _workout_
When humans take to the plate for pleasure's sake and not purpose, that piggishness is the over-reach and excess physical movement is the compensatory response.
The surge of Vanity physique is thus a counterbalancing for Gluttony
Does it say we go to hell for gluttony in dat book.. ?
I'm not really sure how to respond to this since "workout" can mean pretty much anything.
If you're talking about cardiovascular exercise (catabolic), then perhaps many people do that to compensate for eating too much, even though that's a very ineffective way to do it. Eating fewer calories is the only way to cause weight loss unless the person is teetering at maintenance Calories and just needs to burn the extra 200-300 Calories/day to be at a deficit.
If you're talking about lifting heavy things (anabolic response), there are generally three forms: bodybuilding, Olympic weight lifting, and powerlifting. Anabolic exercise require eating more food to get better at it since it causes tissue growth as an adaptation.
- Bodybuilding is vain because it's all about aesthetics, but it's also about steroids and strict diets, so I don't think it applies to the gluttony aspect.
- Very few people do weight lifting proper, which is about power (accelerating the bar), and generally does not produce an aesthetic body type necessarily.
- Powerlifting, which despite the name, is just about strength (generally slow) and can produce decent physiques or fat ones. It's just about lifting the most weight possible, which is easier at high body weights even if much of the weight is fat. I suppose that could be an excuse to eat more.
But, yeah, the average person who goes to the gym just to walk or run on the treadmill or fling around weights without making any progress probably is just trying to feel better for eating too much.
Strength training, makes things in everyday life easier to do and prevents injuries caused by weak bones and muscles and sinew too weak to support those weak bones. Without strength a person literally cannot interact with his environment, so it's not a vanity thing, but a necessity of physical existence.
