Can I make up a funny story about the owner of that website getting cancer and slowly dying in agony? I think that would be very funny.

When people say "not a team player" in this context what it really means is that they won't overwork themselves in order to increase the value for equity holders. In other words, they aren't willing to give you what you haven't paid for.

Unless you have a huge equity stake then don't bother being a "team player". Because your "coach" will cut you from the team without a second thought. One way loyalty isn't loyalty.

You must not have met that many CCIEs, then. The ones who don't bother to mention it are the ones with clue.

This guy keeps making sure everyone knows he's a CCIE. I gotta wonder...is his ego any smaller than Childs? Unlikely. Extremely.

If his management is the cause, I wonder if he can sue them for negligence?

Yet somehow this man is in office. So perhaps modify the statement "When the people who vote for this wingnut are ready to act like adults..."

I have to say - if one man can hold a whole industry in your country hostage then perhaps something needs to be done to fix that?

Don't confuse afterburn with recovery. If you're damaging yourself (which is what going so hard that you vomit is) then you do spend calories recovering. That being said, my doctor told me I should never work out so hard that I puke.

Well, you can think it's true. I won't stop you. You can also believe in Santa Clause. :) I just point out that the data from the metabolic chamber disputes it.

Yeah, CrossFit is a bit cultish. And it's great for *fitness*, but again you're just not burning enough calories in the workout to make a huge impact in the weight loss part. The secret to CrossFit for weight loss is...bam, The Zone. One of the few eating plans that actually works. From my view they actually get it - they're not telling you the workouts are about losing weight. That's what The Zone is for.

I think it's something that also ties in with The End of Overeating. The changes in the American diet have caused actual chemical changes within our brains.

Again, no it's not, as this study demonstrated. It's good for other reasons - weight loss isn't one of them. If the average 30-min cardio workout takes about 500 calories and if it takes about a 3500 calorie deficit for you to lose a pound then voila even if you go to the gym 7 days a week you're only going to see a loss of one pound.

Exercise is great for health. And losing weight is part of being healthy (if you're overweight). But in general if you're trying to lose weight your workout isn't contributing as much as you think it is. Energy restriction is way more important.

No, I'm suggesting (and this study shows) that exercise plays much less of a role in weight loss than most of the "Internet experts" think it does. The overwhelming majority of energy expenditure comes from BMR + daily activity. That daily trip to the gym just isn't doing that much as far as weight loss goes.

Uh, sfb, the quote I provided *is* the cite. Push too hard and you burn glycogen, not fat. Duh. That's why they article refers to things liked published charts of recommended "fat-burning" zones for heart rate.

But thanks for playing, seriously.

Get back to me after that last round of hooked on phonics and let me know how it works for you.

And you didn't read the article either. If you're trying to burn fat then "running your butt off" is counterproductive. That person is burning glycogen, not fat. This is according to people who use actual science (*gasp*) to do things like conduct an experiment to prove a hypothesis and all sorts of crazy things.