Please note that the content creator, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell, has uploaded a changed and "fixed" (their words) version that just went live. They have changed a lot of the original language. I still recommend watching their older version (that I'm reacting to) to form your own opinion but finish watching mine first ;) My views were formed on the back of the original, un-altered, video that was live at time of recording and editing. For the record, their new "fixed" version of the same video went live several days after I finished this video. If you like this subject and would like to listen to more about my views on fitness, weight-loss and exercise then please check out my new podcast channel - www.youtube.com/@RyanCondonUnscripted
Why do you spend so long making their point for them? Do you think you're contradicting them? You aren't and neither is Greg BTW. You're saying essentially "working out is, in fact, good for weight loss" - the core issue you have with their video. Then you take issue that biking burns 600 cal/hr. You say it burns less... IF IT BURNS LESS THEN THEY ARE MORE RIGHT AND YOU ARE MORE WRONG!
Great message as always Ryan. You are living proof that exercise works when you stick with it and are also willing to change those things in your life that contributed to your weight problems. If anyone came to me asking for advice on weight loss I'd point them to your videos. I've always been slim and athletic so I'm in no way an expert on losing weight since I've never had any to lose. I cycle for how it makes me feel mentally. Keeping me fit and the same waist size since I was a teenager is a byproduct of that. Cycling makes me smile 😃
"90% diet, 10% exercise", diet to lose weight, exercise to be fit. I've recently trained and completed a half-marathon, at the begining of the training I couldn't run 5km without a break. I got almost as much joy from a training session where I ran without stopping for 10km, than I did when I completed the 1/2 marathon. I also got joy from running along a forest track and feeling the progress I'd made. Its quite emotional or me! At the same time I've beening on a calorie counting diet, and managed to lose around 2.5kg. Less than I would have liked, but I know m body is 10x fitter. I ran the 1/2 marathon with an average heartbeat of 168 bpm, I couldn't physically stand the pain of 165bpm for more than momentary bursts at the begining of my training. Knowing that, in a pinch, I'm able to run 10miles is a great feeling.
I only watched the update as think the original was taken down so I can only go on what I saw and comment on that and your video. I've been a Personal Trainer for 26 years - it's all I've ever done and I work with a lot of people for 'weight management' so this is a subject I am keenly interested in. My first thought is that focusing on training with your key metric around fat loss immediately concerns me. It creates black and white thinking and associates exercise purely as a means of 'burning' (we exhale in reality), body fat. There are a myriad of better metrics we can focus on and ultimately, if we get the heathy eating and exercise formula correct for an individual, body composition changes as a result. But if your key metric is fat loss and you exercise and don't lose the expected weight, people get resentful very quickly and then stop exercising. As professionals or content creators, we have a responsibility to create better metrics and associations with exercise and healthy eating than purely fat loss. Secondly, a video like this should flash up the studies it derives its statements from as it goes through the video. If it's using clinical research as fact, we need to know f it's a single study or a meta analysis. That changes a lot as even scientific papers are subject to interpretation. Books will provide all their baseline material and so should these videos. We can then properly dissect what and where their statements come from and understand whether what they say is 'factual' or based on assumptions or generalisations. Thirdly, terminology plays a massive role in how we interpret information. Bad/good =black and white with no nuance. Sabotage is also an end of spectrum word...your body isn;t sabotaging - it's trying to find homeostasis and for seeing us alive, that's reasonably useful. It only sabotages if it clashes with our personal goals and that's where getting the right metrics is so important as that changes ho we view results or bodily functions. But also saying things like 'better butter burner' isn't useful either. God there's so much I want to write and this will turn into War and Peace if I'm not careful lol. So, conclusion (in my mind) - Saying exercising is a waste of time is relevant to the metric we set which affects the metrics we use. Efficient or inefficient are far more nuanced words as we can then ask 'How inefficient' or 'for what length of time is this inefficient?'. Weight training is inefficient compared to cardio in a single session but has been scientifically suggested to be more efficient long term, (genetic dependant). The education comes from how we focus on exercise and diet, the words we use and the results we expect...it's an incredibly nuanced subject with a lot of conflicting scientific research so there's no one size fits all. Sorry for the massive reply but it's an area I am passionate about. Great work as always Ryan
I'm a firm believer that you get your abs in the kitchen. However the in a nutshell video takes that mantra and just runs over the horizon with it. Exercise is important in weight loss. Number one I believe is that Exercise makes you less depressed. Depressed people do not lose weight or at least find it very hard to motivate themselves to lose weight. Number two is that exercise shows that you can effect change in your life. By exercising you feel stronger and fitter. If you can make yourself stronger and fitter then you may believe you have the power to lose weight, by controlling your drinking and eating. Number three, if you are exercising three to four hours a week, that's three to four hours a week you are not shovelling food in your gob. Number four, exercising more helps you build muscle. Muscle burns more calories than fat so just sitting around with your extra muscle is burning more calories. I believe exercise is the first crucial step in weight-loss, it gives you the mental clarity and visual feedback that you can and indeed have already effected change in your body, once you do that you can start to get a handle on the kitchen and start searching for those abs.
Exercise can allow you to be in a caloric deficit easier. Instead of a -500 calories deficit a day from just a diet. You can be in a -250 calorie deficit from your diet and the rest from cardio.
These videos annoy me (not yours) I started this year at 22 stone, I changed my diet started cycling and I’m now doing couch to 5k, I’m now 17 and half stone no longer diabetic I have lower cholesterol and my mental health is in such a better place. All these videos do is demotivate people just starting out on the journey thanks for the react video it’s so important
I think you make a lot of good points, Ryan. There is, I think, a flip side to the idea that people may be demotivated if they're told they are likely to unconsciously self-sabotage attempts at exercise weight loss - those same messages may well be reassuring to those who are finding it difficult, because it *is* difficult. A lot of videos explain the energy in/energy out equation, but gloss over the mechanisms that make weight loss so challenging. I'm not suggesting that Kurzgesagt got the balance right, but very few UA-cam channels do. In fact, *yours*, Ryan, is one of the few that balances motivation with honest appraisal of the suffering and setbacks involved in your journey. Mark Lewis, for example, is funny and entertaining, but his tone can feel like fat shaming and appears to suggest it's a moral failing to not lose weight, which I think is just as inaccurate and unbalanced as Kurzgesagt, maybe more so imo. Keep up the excellent content!
@@adamalpinecycling I appreciate the comment and Im very pleased you liked the vid. What 'In a Nutshell' did was take the hardwork and determination required to see results and turn it into a pointless accomplishment that cant be overcome and I know it can.
I subscribe to both Greg and In A nutshell, I usually like their videos but this one was so off the mark and distasteful 🤦♂️ we all get it’s 80% kitchen 20% exercise to lose weight but this message they put out is damn right dangerous! For example like you and Greg hit on, how can you compare a hunter gatherer who is physically adapted to their environment to an office worker with zero exercise who could be X-amount of weight? is madness! I’d also like to add from experience, weight lifting might not be as demanding cardio/calorie wise at the time of exercise but what in a nutshell failed to mention is that your muscles are drawing on proteins/calories while repairing while you sleep for example, and extra muscle mass increases metabolism/maintenance calories etc. great video as always Ryan, I’m glad In A Nutshell are looking at revising this video.
Weightlifting really doesn’t burn many calories. But, 1lb of muscle burns more calories than 1lb of fat. 1lb of fat burns about 2-3 calories a day. 1lb of muscle burns about 7-10 calories per day.
You seem to miss out the key part of what they were saying in the Kurgesagt video. Lots of coaches talk as if calories in minus calories burned = fat added/lost. But it’s actually not that simple.
I read about this research on hunter gatherers in a book about ultra processed foods. The message there was that the body basically balances the books with calories burnt, so sitting down will burn calories on different parts of the body than when walking or running. I can’t remember exactly but I think the point was that exercise is good because it diverts energy to building muscle and cardiovascular strength while sitting down burns those calories on things like the immune system which can knock it off balance causing illness. The book also uses this to make the point that being obese is not because you’re lazy, it’s down to the crap that food companies pump into their food which is designed to make you eat more of it.
@@kidomatica yeah I might have got that bit wrong, but the point is the research seems legit. The message of the video Ryan’s reacting to is nonsense though
6:14 most likely quite significantly less. On bikes we often have powermeters, so we can calculate calories relatively accurate, but in running calories are calculated a lot less accurate.
I will have to respectfully disagree. I eat around 2200-2500 calories a day and still lose weight. Weight loss is extremely more complex than calories in calories out.
Hello Ryan, i reached out to you in one of your earlier videos with an offer to become your student. The offer still stands and im waiting for your response. I've been cycling daily on my zwift ride bike, preparing for your assignments.
Please note that the content creator, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell, has uploaded a changed and "fixed" (their words) version that just went live. They have changed a lot of the original language. I still recommend watching their older version (that I'm reacting to) to form your own opinion but finish watching mine first ;)
My views were formed on the back of the original, un-altered, video that was live at time of recording and editing. For the record, their new "fixed" version of the same video went live several days after I finished this video.
If you like this subject and would like to listen to more about my views on fitness, weight-loss and exercise then please check out my new podcast channel - www.youtube.com/@RyanCondonUnscripted
Why do you spend so long making their point for them? Do you think you're contradicting them?
You aren't and neither
is Greg BTW.
You're saying essentially "working out is, in fact, good for weight loss" - the core issue you have with their video.
Then you take issue that biking burns 600 cal/hr. You say it burns less...
IF IT BURNS LESS THEN THEY ARE MORE RIGHT AND YOU ARE MORE WRONG!
Great message as always Ryan.
You are living proof that exercise works when you stick with it and are also willing to change those things in your life that contributed to your weight problems.
If anyone came to me asking for advice on weight loss I'd point them to your videos. I've always been slim and athletic so I'm in no way an expert on losing weight since I've never had any to lose.
I cycle for how it makes me feel mentally. Keeping me fit and the same waist size since I was a teenager is a byproduct of that. Cycling makes me smile 😃
Thank you, thats very kind. Exercise for mental health is just as important. 🙌🙏
"90% diet, 10% exercise", diet to lose weight, exercise to be fit. I've recently trained and completed a half-marathon, at the begining of the training I couldn't run 5km without a break. I got almost as much joy from a training session where I ran without stopping for 10km, than I did when I completed the 1/2 marathon. I also got joy from running along a forest track and feeling the progress I'd made. Its quite emotional or me! At the same time I've beening on a calorie counting diet, and managed to lose around 2.5kg. Less than I would have liked, but I know m body is 10x fitter. I ran the 1/2 marathon with an average heartbeat of 168 bpm, I couldn't physically stand the pain of 165bpm for more than momentary bursts at the begining of my training. Knowing that, in a pinch, I'm able to run 10miles is a great feeling.
@@hughe29 Thats a great achievement, welldone and thanks for watching. Good luck with your future training.
Love the “Vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen” bit at the very end.
I only watched the update as think the original was taken down so I can only go on what I saw and comment on that and your video.
I've been a Personal Trainer for 26 years - it's all I've ever done and I work with a lot of people for 'weight management' so this is a subject I am keenly interested in.
My first thought is that focusing on training with your key metric around fat loss immediately concerns me. It creates black and white thinking and associates exercise purely as a means of 'burning' (we exhale in reality), body fat. There are a myriad of better metrics we can focus on and ultimately, if we get the heathy eating and exercise formula correct for an individual, body composition changes as a result. But if your key metric is fat loss and you exercise and don't lose the expected weight, people get resentful very quickly and then stop exercising. As professionals or content creators, we have a responsibility to create better metrics and associations with exercise and healthy eating than purely fat loss.
Secondly, a video like this should flash up the studies it derives its statements from as it goes through the video. If it's using clinical research as fact, we need to know f it's a single study or a meta analysis. That changes a lot as even scientific papers are subject to interpretation. Books will provide all their baseline material and so should these videos. We can then properly dissect what and where their statements come from and understand whether what they say is 'factual' or based on assumptions or generalisations.
Thirdly, terminology plays a massive role in how we interpret information. Bad/good =black and white with no nuance. Sabotage is also an end of spectrum word...your body isn;t sabotaging - it's trying to find homeostasis and for seeing us alive, that's reasonably useful. It only sabotages if it clashes with our personal goals and that's where getting the right metrics is so important as that changes ho we view results or bodily functions. But also saying things like 'better butter burner' isn't useful either.
God there's so much I want to write and this will turn into War and Peace if I'm not careful lol.
So, conclusion (in my mind) - Saying exercising is a waste of time is relevant to the metric we set which affects the metrics we use. Efficient or inefficient are far more nuanced words as we can then ask 'How inefficient' or 'for what length of time is this inefficient?'. Weight training is inefficient compared to cardio in a single session but has been scientifically suggested to be more efficient long term, (genetic dependant). The education comes from how we focus on exercise and diet, the words we use and the results we expect...it's an incredibly nuanced subject with a lot of conflicting scientific research so there's no one size fits all.
Sorry for the massive reply but it's an area I am passionate about. Great work as always Ryan
Thanks for sharing your view. Some very good points. I appreciate you taking the time to write that and allowing others to read it. 🙌
I'm a firm believer that you get your abs in the kitchen. However the in a nutshell video takes that mantra and just runs over the horizon with it. Exercise is important in weight loss. Number one I believe is that Exercise makes you less depressed. Depressed people do not lose weight or at least find it very hard to motivate themselves to lose weight. Number two is that exercise shows that you can effect change in your life. By exercising you feel stronger and fitter. If you can make yourself stronger and fitter then you may believe you have the power to lose weight, by controlling your drinking and eating. Number three, if you are exercising three to four hours a week, that's three to four hours a week you are not shovelling food in your gob. Number four, exercising more helps you build muscle. Muscle burns more calories than fat so just sitting around with your extra muscle is burning more calories. I believe exercise is the first crucial step in weight-loss, it gives you the mental clarity and visual feedback that you can and indeed have already effected change in your body, once you do that you can start to get a handle on the kitchen and start searching for those abs.
Thanks for the comment. Makes a lot of sense to me.
Exercise can allow you to be in a caloric deficit easier. Instead of a -500 calories deficit a day from just a diet. You can be in a -250 calorie deficit from your diet and the rest from cardio.
These videos annoy me (not yours) I started this year at 22 stone, I changed my diet started cycling and I’m now doing couch to 5k, I’m now 17 and half stone no longer diabetic I have lower cholesterol and my mental health is in such a better place. All these videos do is demotivate people just starting out on the journey thanks for the react video it’s so important
Good for you. 💪 Keep up the achievements. 🙌🙏
I think you make a lot of good points, Ryan. There is, I think, a flip side to the idea that people may be demotivated if they're told they are likely to unconsciously self-sabotage attempts at exercise weight loss - those same messages may well be reassuring to those who are finding it difficult, because it *is* difficult. A lot of videos explain the energy in/energy out equation, but gloss over the mechanisms that make weight loss so challenging. I'm not suggesting that Kurzgesagt got the balance right, but very few UA-cam channels do. In fact, *yours*, Ryan, is one of the few that balances motivation with honest appraisal of the suffering and setbacks involved in your journey. Mark Lewis, for example, is funny and entertaining, but his tone can feel like fat shaming and appears to suggest it's a moral failing to not lose weight, which I think is just as inaccurate and unbalanced as Kurzgesagt, maybe more so imo. Keep up the excellent content!
@@adamalpinecycling I appreciate the comment and Im very pleased you liked the vid. What 'In a Nutshell' did was take the hardwork and determination required to see results and turn it into a pointless accomplishment that cant be overcome and I know it can.
@@RyanCondon yeah, they definitely had a lot of poor wording in that vid.
They updated their video.. its a bit better now.. the original was much worse.
I subscribe to both Greg and In A nutshell, I usually like their videos but this one was so off the mark and distasteful 🤦♂️ we all get it’s 80% kitchen 20% exercise to lose weight but this message they put out is damn right dangerous! For example like you and Greg hit on, how can you compare a hunter gatherer who is physically adapted to their environment to an office worker with zero exercise who could be X-amount of weight? is madness! I’d also like to add from experience, weight lifting might not be as demanding cardio/calorie wise at the time of exercise but what in a nutshell failed to mention is that your muscles are drawing on proteins/calories while repairing while you sleep for example, and extra muscle mass increases metabolism/maintenance calories etc. great video as always Ryan, I’m glad In A Nutshell are looking at revising this video.
Cheers G-Unit. I agree muscle building is very hard work and demanding. I'm pleased you liked it.
Weightlifting really doesn’t burn many calories. But, 1lb of muscle burns more calories than 1lb of fat.
1lb of fat burns about 2-3 calories a day. 1lb of muscle burns about 7-10 calories per day.
You seem to miss out the key part of what they were saying in the Kurgesagt video. Lots of coaches talk as if calories in minus calories burned = fat added/lost. But it’s actually not that simple.
They've just uploaded the new version 🎉 see what you think 🤔
I've been binge watching you stuff it's great 👍
I saw. They're cheeky. They have changed a lot the toxic language but the video is still nonsense.
@@RyanCondon thought as much. I'll be interested in the "part 2 video" about the eating side of things.
The movie WALL-E was prophetic and this is how we get there.
Can’t find any running shirts for tomorrow
It’s so weird seeing Coach Greg on your channel I feel like worlds are colliding 😅😂
@@miss_fit He made a lot of sense so thought I'd share that on my little channel. 😄
@@RyanCondon well I thought your points were excellent and loved the vid!
Only just started this video but doesn’t natty just mean natural as in not on steroids
Yes.
Kurta what now
Exactly!
I read about this research on hunter gatherers in a book about ultra processed foods. The message there was that the body basically balances the books with calories burnt, so sitting down will burn calories on different parts of the body than when walking or running. I can’t remember exactly but I think the point was that exercise is good because it diverts energy to building muscle and cardiovascular strength while sitting down burns those calories on things like the immune system which can knock it off balance causing illness. The book also uses this to make the point that being obese is not because you’re lazy, it’s down to the crap that food companies pump into their food which is designed to make you eat more of it.
I think the majority of calories burned, at a baseline, is to regulate body temperature.
@@kidomatica yeah I might have got that bit wrong, but the point is the research seems legit. The message of the video Ryan’s reacting to is nonsense though
6:14 most likely quite significantly less. On bikes we often have powermeters, so we can calculate calories relatively accurate, but in running calories are calculated a lot less accurate.
I eat burgers, just the meat all day and still lose weight FYI 😉
I will have to respectfully disagree. I eat around 2200-2500 calories a day and still lose weight. Weight loss is extremely more complex than calories in calories out.
I definitely agree. That exercise is necessary for health, especially since muscle can independently uptake glucose.
I’m glad we can agree on the earth being around and the moon landing
Hello Ryan, i reached out to you in one of your earlier videos with an offer to become your student. The offer still stands and im waiting for your response. I've been cycling daily on my zwift ride bike, preparing for your assignments.
You can’t sell London Bridge, it’s already been sold and comfortably here in the United States 😂. Love the video!!!