No. The vaccine works and is still extremely effective against all known variants. Almost everyone who wants the vaccine has been eligible to get it for quite a while, so NO, I won’t be masking up again just to protect the anti-vaxxer morons. However, IF NYC gets back up to a “Substantial level” of cases of 50/100k…

For your own sake Nathan, you really need a new beat.

I miss training with barbells. Sucks because Planet Fitness is really the only accessible gym* in my area and it seems as though they are 100% anti-barbell. They’re so focused on their beginner-friendly image that they don’t want to have any notion of being a serious gym with really the most basic equipment.

I don’t like Smith machines because it forces me to move in a very specific way. It makes my movement feel so unnatural. I feel free with barbells.

Didn’t say anything about “getting ripped” I said your heart beating faster isn’t a good thing in and of itself. Being morbidly obese causes a faster heart rate at rest, its also profoundly unhealthy. 

Is it working your heart more? Yes it is. Will that cause any notable physiological adaptations that will make you more fit? Nope.

No matter how you do it wrong, it’s still more right than not doing it at all.

I suggest reading my other comments in this thread to see there is literally no daylight between our positions. 

Okay, ya makes sense, but you’re still focusing on the least consequential part of that statement. Focus on the totality of the statement. There are better choices for fat loss than high intensity cardio.

I will also add muscle literally exists as a storage for carbohydrates as your muscle holds glycogen. When you eat carbohydrates it becomes glucose the fuel of your body. Glucose has four pathways after that.

People really don’t understand this. “The elliptical says I burned 400 calories, that’s a lot!” Yeah, but what the elliptical isn’t telling you is that 1) it’s probably grossly exaggerated, and 2) you probably would’ve burned 250 of those calories just lying at rest.

Yeah I feel like there is a good bit more of nuance needed here than the basic premise the headline tries to get across. The saying, you can’t outrun a bad diet, has been around for longer than this book because we know you really don’t burn that many calories in cardio or weight training.

My face shape:  fat.  

Why are you showing photos of Weightlifting for the section about Powerlifting? The athlete in the photo is performing a snatch, which is one of the two lifts that are performed in Weightlifting. WL is also a sport that older folks can compete in, and they have categories for masters lifters. It’s a lot of fun!

Yeah, I’m not saying there’s zero logic to masking indoors if you’re vaccinated. I’m just saying there are a lot of weirdos with doomer fetishes who are almost giddy at the thought of the variant somehow overpowering the vaccines and what they believe to be the ensuing resurgence.

If I am already 90%+ protected because I’ve been vaccinated a mask isn’t going to offer 30% protection. Let’s say it would offer 30% protection for an unvaccinated person, that would provide approximately 1-3% protection for a vaccinated person (not J&J).

Considering how any variant of COVID seems to basically ignore toddlers I wouldn’t be too worried, especially if the people you’re around are vaccinated

Every new study of the vaccines seems to confirm that they really are miracles, and yet every day on Twitter there are people who seem almost gleeful that Delta may lead some places to reinstitute mask mandates and other mitigation measures. They like to cite the poorly-framed story about half of the new infections in…

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