Immune to exercise

**nitromoose** · 03-Dec-04, 12:10 PM

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996735

A quick but interesting read!

**kungfu74** · 03-Dec-04, 12:19 PM

"Studies" like this crack me up... is it possible that the few "Least trainable" people were not putting forth the effort necessary to show an improvement? how does a scientist measure ones actual output vs there maximum possible output? maybe those "least trainable" were just lazy???

Klinger · 03-Dec-04, 12:34 PM

Just ludicrous. Throw a bunch of people on exercise bikes for a few weeks and declare that some of them won't get anything out of it?

This is exactly what excuse-makers are looking for. I can see it now: "I've been working out for four months now but I haven't seen any gains. I guess I'm just one of those untrainable people. Might as well give up."

Ugh.

Lift2Live · 03-Dec-04, 03:50 PM

I am sure they are designing a medication for this "disorder" as we speak, fear not! lmao

Barry · 06-Dec-04, 08:52 AM

I see those "untrainable people all the time at the gym.....2 mph on the treadmill reading Entertainment Weekly

ajarvis · 06-Dec-04, 09:32 AM

Yea I see those people on the treadmill too. A magazine is one thing cause they may just be looking at the pictures but I've seen people reading novels! It looks pretty funny