Is working out pointless if you eat poorly?

What can you do? I am no saint and enjoy indulging in treats. I will not completely give it up so I follow the 90/10 rule. I eat good wholesome food 90% of time and the other 10%, I let the fat guy in me out but have him on a leash. It has worked well for me thus far. is it pointless to workout and eat poorly? read more

Working out is not pointless, its definitely better than eating poorly and not working out, but bad nutrition will counteract a lot of the work you do in the gym. You can enjoy crappy food and still get results, although you will get better much better results if you eat well. read more

A common saying you’ll hear in the fitness space is, ‘you can’t out train a bad diet’. 2. Trying to out-train a bad diet will more often than not backfire. read more

But if you think that hour in aerobics class bought you a free pass at the all-you-can-eat pasta station at the Bellagio buffet, you're delusional. But exercise does have a relationship to weight -- it's just not as perfect a relationship as most of us would like. While exercise by itself is fairly useless for losing weight, it appears to be critical to keeping the weight off once you've lost it. read more