They are advertising Propel Fitness water. The commercial starts by saying that some fitness waters have up to 125 calories. You would have to do 492 situps or walk 2,640 steps to burn this off according to the commercial. Propel water, in contrast, only has 25 calories, what could be better? Well duh, how about 0 calories! Remember when about 20 years ago we came up with sugar subsitutes that allow zero calorie flavoured drinks? How many calories are there in a vitamin pill? If I don’t want to do an extra 492 situps, I also don’t want to do an extra 92 situps. :dubious:
Or, if it’s water you’re looking for anyway… Hmmm… What variant of water has even fewer than 25 calories… Think think think… It feels like there must be something out there… Possibly cheaper than bottled anything as well…
As an aside, Propel is a fantastic hangover preventer. Seriously. Down a bottle of that stuff before bed, and have one at bedside for when you wake up, and you’ll be fine.
Only 25 calories in your water, eh? Are these the same people who market the tiny chocolate bars that are 1/3 the size, for 2/3 the price?
When I get tired of the delicious, glacier-fresh water that comes out of my tap, I drink some club soda with a little fruit juice in it. Weaning yourself off of colas and heavily-sugared (or heavily chemically, fake sugared) drinks can be done.
What does everybody have against tap water anyway? The chlorinated taste? That’s what filters are for… I don’t understand paying for water. I’m a renter, so it’s included in my rent, but at work, other places? Even restaurants will give you tap water if you ask for it… free. And yes, also without any calories!
Not a good idea to drink tap water here. Bottled water is cheap and ubiquitous. what tap water we do use, like to make coffee and such, we always boil first.
If water has calories you shouldn’t drink it, because it has organic contaminates. They need to stop calling it water and call it what it’s supposed to be called. The FDA term is drink.
I actually wanted to ask this in GQ but I’ll do it here. Does it really take 4 sit ups to burn one calorie? That seems awful strange to me. If so then there’s no real point to doing sit ups at all.
I don’t know what the sit-up requirement is to burn a calorie, but since you’ve raised the question of “What good is a sit-up” I’ll answer that.
Sit-ups (and all abdominal exercises) can strengthen and tone the abdominal muscles, but they will NOT get rid of your gut. The only thing that will burn the fat is cardio activity, such as walking, jogging, aerobics, etc. You can do a million sit-ups and still have a terrific gut on you. Underneath the fat, you’ll have great ab muscles, but no one will ever see them.
Sit-ups aren’t the best exercises for your abs, but they’re better than nothing.
The only problem with bottled water is that it is even more expensive than gasoline.