Swimming's really good for losing weight, no sweating and less knee pain involved. Wish I had a private pool too, you can definitely tell the public ones are 30% filled with piss.
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My private pool would be 70% filled with piss.
I find it funny that there is an acceptable level or urea in a pool and it's like 10% lol
This is sort of how everything works, unfortunately! Guaranteeing 0% of something is really hard. Your flour probably has a small percentage of bugs in it, for instance. Urea is a relatively small molecule that I imagine you can find tiny amounts of pretty much anywhere. I would be unsurprised if there was at least one molecule of urea in literally anything you eat!
That said, dear god I hope I’ve never been in a pool that’s 10% urine :(. Those kiddie pools at the water park are probably like 90% urine, though. Sometimes I wonder if by volume adults pee in the pool more than kids, though. I have a suspicion a good chunk of adults think it’s fine or will do it secretly anyway.
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You definitely sweat when you swim. People need to rehydrate while swimming, even indoors
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Your metabolic rate can be several times higher in a pool or other body of water than it is on land without any exercise at all. Body heat is lost at a much higher rate when you are submerged in water and your body will burn more fuel to maintain core temperature.
So why isn’t “a long cold bath every day” the trendiest weight loss method??
This is something fighters do when they're going extreme weight loss before a weight in. I'm addition to dehydrating themselves and eating clean, they have several different cold exposure methods that causes the body to burn more calories.
several different cold exposure methods
"Cough in my face, I need to lose weight!"
Yes, get sick, increase that body temp, increase that thermogenesis , burn those calories. Don’t be weak.
Because it still isn't going to make that extra large pizza disappear.
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Thanks. I've had that theory for years, but you just articulated it much better than I could.
This is why they say find an activity you enjoy.
Swimming is amazing for the elderly as well as the heavily obese. Buoyancy takes all the load off joints/cartilage and significantly reduces wear or arthritic pain while still providing consistent, firm resistance to movement that burns calories.
In Iceland all the public pools are full of old people. Due to geothermal energy, all outdoor pools in Iceland are heated, even in winter. I think it's a really great public health program honestly.
All you need is rich parents
Or the wherewithal for and availability of a public one
Or to live near a lake or beach.
A public parent?
~~Like your mom~~
^I^ ^had^ ^to^ ^sorry^
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Jokes aside now anon's gotta make sure to use sunscreen, or he's only trading in one killer for another.
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When did it change from .jpg to .webp?
Must be a Zoomer thing
Webp is just a more data efficient format, lots of sites are switching to it because it can greatly decrease bandwidth and storage costs.
I don't think anyone here was unfamiliar with what a .webp was besides maybe @[email protected]. OP was just pointing out it's weird to see a greentext using anything besides .jpg
The only problem is that basically no software supports it, so if you're saving pictures for a slideshow or something, webp is impossible to use.
Yeah, what is up with that?
Most photo software supports so many formats, and it is not like webp is a brand new one. It is also widely used on the internet by this point.
Why does it take so long to get support on any of them without installing a separate plugin?
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I'm on the upper end of generation Z and I've never heard or seen webp at all. .jpg is the one I've seen used.
Well I would hope there aren't any 290 pound 13-year-old gen alphas out there
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Where my .jxl stans at?
I was going to reply with a .jxl meme, but it turns out Lemmy doesn't support it, which is a genuinely better .jxl joke than anything I would've made.
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I'd argue the most difficult part about losing weight is boredom.
Yeah. You can’t outrun your fork, but you can’t mindlessly snack because you’re bored on a bicycle.
You underestimate my power
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30lbs in 2 weeks using this one neat trick.
Ok anon.
Well, they never mentioned they ate anything in those two weeks, just bobbed around in the pool
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