Strengthening muscle may be healthier than losing fat

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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 070819.php

I've often wondered if that were true. Interesting study.

I'm a cyclist & a skier, it's common knowledge for people who really push themselves. Fat exists for good reason & exercise wouldn't happen without it.

Good information

Could be, but I don't have much muscle to build even. Hell I couldn't even do the pull ups for a fitness class in high school even with a stool to try and help with the initial lift. I always hated P.E because well I don't have great physical abilities and so it was always embarrassing. Hell i can't even go to a protest(which I support some of the protests going on) but I some of the brutality of the police I have seen I am afraid to even go to one because I don't know if I could hold up too well against rubber bullets and police batons. I mean sure I am not just 95 pounds anymore got closer to 110 in the past year so but I have not gained anymore physical strength in that time so yeah don't wanna get beat to death and yeah not sure how well I'd hold up against the 'less lethal' munitions they shoot at people.

I always thought muscle was important.
You don't have to be a fitness fanatic to build muscle, I used to do a full body workout in my living room just with a pair of 2kg dumbells and wrap-around ankle weights.
(yeah, I should probably start doing that again)

Lol maybe I could try to strengthen my muscles a bit that way...not sure I'd do an entire body work out but I could maybe get into a bit of strengthening exercises that are easy to do in the living room. I could even put on some music I like for motivation. Because I think it would probably be good to work on it a little still not sure I could go as far as being able to do a pull up but I could use to be at least a little more fit than I am now. Of course at the moment there are 3 or 4 big fires burning and they are big so its putting smoke all over the state, so its not really a good time to start cardiovascular exercises like going for walks or jogs because there is smoke everywhere in the air. So with all that its probably better not to exert yourself since the air is smokey...like even though the fires are in the mountains sometimes you can actually see visible smoke down here closer to the city because its moving around. And I also already have had coughing problems and such since I moved down here I am considering getting a doctor appointment to look at it just so I can see what they say. But yeah right now our whole state is covered by smoke which its probably not very healthy to run or go for strenuous walks with such conditions.

But yeah there is smoke everywhere...no real escape of it, hell even in your own apartment with AC for sure some of that smoke air is even getting inside. My apartment has no good air circulation so sometimes you gotta open the sliding door just to allow some fresher air to circulate...but as of late the smoke in the air outside doesn't really help much for airing out our apartment because der...its smoke air. But not like I have access to different air so yeah I gotta breath all the smoke and ozone that comes my way. After all if you just cease breathing you die, so I guess better to breath in some oxygen wih ozone and smoke than to breath no air.

Interesting. Me and my family are doing this in opposites. I'm trying to gain muscle cos I'm underweight and they're trying to lose weight.

Mum doesn't have to as she's in the ideal but she's still doing it.

I think that's female vanity but then male vanity, including trans male vanity, will often worry 'do I have enough muscle?' in the same irrational way.

I've never been very muscular. I'm currently doing some basic exercises for balance and muscle weakness that the physio has recommended . Being even more sedentary than usual, due to going out even less since March, hasn't helped.