I'm no expert, but I intuitively question this notion. If you have a lot of fat stores (i.e., if you're overweight), why would your body "go into" muscle if you lose more than 2 lbs per week?

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I've heard (from several sources) that it's 6 calories, not 30-50. Just goes to show how hard it is to get accurate information.

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I'm still going to do side bends not to reduce love handles..but to firm the obliques, and for core work.

I've just added in Ab/Ad to my workout and will keep doing them for now. I suffered a calf injury last summer which still bothers me a little bit. I'm very overweight and have just started running again. I don't need to add any extra stress with lunges just yet.

Ab/Ad machines can be great if you're quite heavy because you're working those muscles but not putting any kind of pressure on your joints.

But like the article says - they won't make your thighs skinny. My fitness goal is to play women's rugby in the autumn - so I want to build every muscle as soon as I can. But when my fitness is improved I'll be doing stuff which is more dynamic to build up muscles, strength and power.

I never understood why people thought side bends worked in the first place. At most, it gives a good stretch, but you can do that without weights.

Dang, I thought I was getting a good workout with the Seated Rotation Machine.

I never felt like I was doing it right though.

I'm off to the gym for weights and cardio. I play squash- and get the best workout but find it difficult to get partners.

What is your favorite thing to do on the cardio machines?

Oh Ineffective... well Im simply in the wrong thread, never mind.

thank's for sharing

Hello,
Thanks for this wonderful post bcoz it's expose lot of thing about excercise that are useless for us!!

These are so great! I had no idea straight leg sit ups were ineffective, I had tried them before and completely agree they place so much strain on your lower back that I just couldn't get myself to do them again, glad to know they don't work anyways! Thanks for these! So helpful!

great article...I am glad to pass up the abductor/adductor machine from now on...it is kind of tedious. I wish the author included 10 most effective exercises.... has anyone seen such an article?




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My dr told me to use ad/abductor as part of routine to reduce knee pain. So i believe they are great for strengthing muscles. Several said to replace with squats and lunges but i cant do those until my knees get better.

Totally agree that crunches/sit ups are useless! It takes something like almost 400,000 to lose one lb of fat. Haha!

Wow I had no idea, a lot of those make sense though! Especially with that cardio tapping into your muscle after 60 mins! I work too hard to built up any sort of muscle, I definitely don't want to do anything to take that away! ha thanks for sharing these!