nikegirl24 - are you serious?

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Nikegirl,

Um, I've read a couple of your articles and I have to ask you where you're getting your information? Also, out of curiousity, what are your credentials?

The two things that I want to list, for starters, that really shocked me to read was:

"Swimming makes you eat more, therefor you should run to lose weight"
"the more water you drink, the more weight you'll lose"

I'm paraphrasing here, but you get the point. I'm concerned with this advice because it seems very odd to me. I'm a Certified Personal Trainer and I've never heard such a thing...please enlighten me.

Thanks,

J
 
Where is this article from? Sounds a bit odd.

I swim a lot (1+ mile each time) and I never get hungry or eat more....

Drinking a lot of water certainly helps your metabolism, but it doesn't cause you to lose weight....
 
I havent ever seen nikegirl on here either????? :confused:

The only thing I can possibly think off is that some endurance swimmers are predisposed to store fat and before physiologists knew that fat oxidation was the primary energy source in endurance activity coaches used to have their long distance swimmers run to "trim up" makes them more streamlines donchaknow
 
all exercise will pretty much make you more hungry and eat more. I know I'm hungry as hell after weight training, and that's along the best things for weight los..
 
From what I understand NikeGirl works along side Sean who runs the site, going to look at the article in questions but some I have read have been okay.

Edit: Seems fine to me...
 
well the article you posted appears to be written by Jaclyn Cousins.

no idea if that is nikegirl or not.

I agree the swimming bit sounds odd, but why question the water thing? water can help fill you up, making you less prone to snacking and indirectly affecting your weight loss.

and it doesn't specify what kind of weight is lost. drinking water helps flush stuff like sodium out of the body, requiring less water retention to off set the sodium, so you lose some water weight, not fat...but it is 'weight' as far as a scale is concerned.
 
malkore said:
well the article you posted appears to be written by Jaclyn Cousins.

no idea if that is nikegirl or not.

I agree the swimming bit sounds odd, but why question the water thing? water can help fill you up, making you less prone to snacking and indirectly affecting your weight loss.

and it doesn't specify what kind of weight is lost. drinking water helps flush stuff like sodium out of the body, requiring less water retention to off set the sodium, so you lose some water weight, not fat...but it is 'weight' as far as a scale is concerned.
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I can only assume that Jacylen is NikeGirl24.

I question the water statement because it is lose and incorrect. Simply stating that "The more water you drink, the more weight you lose" is invalid and speaks to the inaccuracy of the article. I challenge it because I would think that someone presenting information on a site such as this should take some responsability when they make such statements. "Drinking water will help you lose weight" or "aid in weight loss" is more accurate, if you ask me. Anyway, I'm not hung up on that single phrase. I was simply pointing out a "WTF" with regard to the articles posted on Fitness.com main page, but it doesn't appear that we'll get a response from her.
 
Karky said:
all exercise will pretty much make you more hungry and eat more. I know I'm hungry as hell after weight training, and that's along the best things for weight los..
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I agree. Hunger is a part of exercise...obviously. If you use excessive energy during exercise, you're going to need to replenish the fuel and rebuild muscle tissue, etc.
 
sftitans said:
"Swimming makes you eat more, therefor you should run to lose weight"
"the more water you drink, the more weight you'll lose"
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I couldn't find the water consumption statement in that article, has it been removed? If it really said 'the more water you drink the more weight you'll lose' then it's obviously phrased poorly.

The swimming thing? Well, running increases your body temperature therefore suppressing hunger but swimming in a pool keeps your temp down so doesn't have the same hunger suppressing effects. Is this not true?
Just looking at body fat levels of swimmers compared to runners would appear to give some credability to her claims

Anyway, I think Nikegirl can be found on the weight loss forum rather than this one if you want to ask her directly, I've only seen her here once in the last 12 months
 
Or, maybe send her a PM instead of calling her out in a public venue....

i'm closing this thread because its just not going anywhere.
 
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