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PaperclipPerfector  25d ago (text post)   2057 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 4, 2025

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Anyone here tried doing DDR/Stepmania for cardio? I am thinking about it because it get the hardest part of cardio - total and utter boredom out.

I don't think it works for losing weight, but it's a good stamina builder for sure. I base this on the fact that for at least six months in the early noughts when I worked across from Timezone I watched giant men move their feet impossibly to edm every single day and never lose weight. It was spectacular to watch, almost physics defying seeing these 180kg guys do Paranoia on expert, and I was sure they'd lose weight just from sweating (the arcade had big industrial fans everywhere but no a/c) but if they did lose any weight it seemed marginal. But they definitely improved their stamina, going from not being able to finish a track to completing tracks and not even being out of breath by the end of the year.

You never lose weight from cardio. That is an axiom

I lost 35lbs in 2.5 months with cardio

It just depends how big you are

Diet came later

(I rode my bicycle two hours a day to / fro work in the South Florida sun in August @305lbs lol)

I do generally think bicycling is superior to running as a form of cardio for weight loss. Most people who are overweight are also not good enough runners to minimize the impact or avoid repetitive stress injuries.

For serious road cycling there is also a social aspect that bicycling has over other forms of cardio. It's possible to ride with a group that will push you, but by utilizing the aerodynamic draft sucking doesn't hold up the group. You have to be much more closely match to keep pace running. You can also hang out in a peloton where you are relatively strong and replace some of the idle chat you would do in a bar. For what I assume are work schedule reasons, fast group rides are often at dinner time. If you get sufficiently thrashed, it's possible to just be too tiered to cook and eat a proper dinner after a ride. From personal experience, replacing dinner with a 2-3 hour group ride and a protein bar 4-5 times a week is good for like 4 lbs/week. Probably not optimal for health, sustainability, or performance though.

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