Re:Peloton Is Spinning Faster Than Ever
by Alex3917 on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:43AM
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The workouts are designed to be hard, not to increase your fitness. It’s basically fake exercise.
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Bullshit. There isn't anything fake about it. You will get stronger, faster, and have far better cardio. But yes, you will likely also get injured.
> There isn't anything fake about it.
It's nowhere near the efficient frontier curve, in terms of maximizing the amount of strength / cardio / flexibility gains you make per unit work. Instead it's maximizing the amount of work you do, and any increase in fitness you experience is merely an incidental side effect.
OK, that is a much more defensible thing to say. What do you think is a more efficient form of exercise then?
Well there are three components of fitness (strength, endurance, and cardio), so there isn't going to be a single answer.
But in general, the more boring something is the more effective it is. Just sitting on the rowing machine at 75% of your max HR for 90 min is always going to be more effective than taking a class where you are constantly going at different paces but are doing it more for entertainment rather than because you're trying to do intervals.