Hi Kay.
Depends on how obese they are!
Not sure where you live Kay (South America or South Africa), but in the UK, ‘clinically obese’ used to mean 3 stone overweight, but then you have to decide if you trust the idiots who decide what ‘normal weight’ for your height is in the first place.
These pricks in government who draw up these weight to height charts want shooting, primarily because weight to height often tells you nothing.
Clearly if your 5’ tall and weigh 15 stone (210lb/95kg), then it’s a fair assumption you’re a lard arse, but this 3 stone and your obese thing is outrageous.
Going by this chart, just about any athlete will be overweight by at least 10 to 30 lbs, since muscle is denser than fat, so it weighs more for the same space it occupies.
‘Body composition’ is what we should be looking at, so for example, we now know your height, age, sex, muscle mass, bone mass, water percentage, body fat percentage, and perhaps most importantly, visceral fat percentage (that’s the killer fat that surrounds your internal organs).
Our government health advisors know most of the public only own shitty $10 bathroom scales, and our doctor’s surgeries have the ones you see boxers getting weighed on, that are no better, just more accurate.
So perhaps they know most people aren’t about to invest in a 100-200 dollar set of Tanita bathroom scales, any more than doctors and clinics will invest in a couple of grands worth of really decent commercial body composition, or ‘dexa’ apparatus.
To make matters worse, they came out with BMI (body mass index), which is even more retarded!
Anyway, and sorry to confuse things, but the 3-stone overweight thing is probably not an issue for exercise, but the type of exercise will be critical, however, and most definitely shouldn’t involve cardio!
So instead let’s check out this chart above, but please ignore the BMI bullshit, and just concentrate on the shapes for a moment.
If I’m coaching the obese class 1, then as stated we do need to be extremely careful in the gym, but it’s usually ok, unless their borderline class 2’s.
But obese class 2, and 3 shaped people should definitely ‘not’ be anywhere near a gym.
Walking a dog for 15 minutes twice a day won’t be a problem for health purposes, but the use of a gym as part of a fitness or weight loss protocol is absolutely backwards.
Why?
Because these people aren’t greedy, lazy (gluttonous sloths), as the media and medics would have us believe, and their problems will never be solved by fewer calories in, and more calories out.
Making these type 2 and 3 obese people believe their problems are down to gluttony and sloth, and thus a ‘character defect’, is both cruel and ignorant on the part of the medical, dietary, nutritional, and fitness professions, who should know better, yet clearly don’t, nor know how to handle the problem.
Those industries attitudes towards people they don’t understand are appalling. I.e.; you’re all fat buggers that need ‘gastric band surgery’, ‘appetite suppressant drugs’, ‘thyroid drugs’, ‘amphetamine drugs’ to speed up your metabolism, and you all need to get on a treadmill for an hour a day, like a fucking hamster.
And when that fails, and it will, they need a psychiatrist or psychologist to ‘help’ with the eating disorder.
Rather than call these good people gluttons and sloths, I prefer to call the so-called professionals they seek help from, Gluttons and Sloths!
How come?
Well, Gluttons for swallowing all the shit information and bogus science dished up over the past 35 years, and Sloth’s for being too fucking lazy to research, study, and figure the problem out with solid science, as I, and thousands like me, have managed to do.
You will see these types 2 and 3 obese people in every commercial gym you visit, usually on doctors’ orders, graciously accepted by the gym owner (since its business, and makes all the losers who aren’t as fat feel better about themselves), and they can usually be found on the treadmills, stationary or recumbent bikes, elliptical trainers, and one poor class 2 lady I know, killing herself on the stair climber.
These people have a metabolic disorder that warrants a 10,000-word response to fully understand.
Here however, I will do my best to answer your question in 1,000 words, since I hope you understand why I can’t just answer you with ‘no’ without explaining ‘why not’, especially when everyone else, including Doctors, Oprah, and reality TV show experts, are all saying ‘yes’ they should exercise.
So here goes.
Sorry, changed my mind, and instead here’s a link to a couple of great but lengthy Blunt Coach posts, that will answer the question.
Be well and thanks for your question; http://bluntcoach.com/2017/05/11/all-about-what-makes-us-fat-and-why-exercise-for-weight-loss-is-bllshit/
