Why exercise alone won’t get you results … 🏋🏼♂️
I know I say this a lot but If I had a pound for everyone I speak to who tells me that they exercise a lot but can’t understand they aren’t getting results I would be a rich woman!
I discussed this last week but I thought this pie chart helps visualise why those workouts have so little impact on your fat/weight loss and how what you do outside your workouts is far more important.
Fat loss is far more about behaviour change than it is about the calories you burn during a workout. It’s very hard to create a meaningful calorie deficit via exercise and activity alone. You have to work extremely hard to burn more than a few hundred calories in a workout and you can’t put exercise your diet (it’s a lot easier to eat several hundred calories than burn it off). Studies also show we usually over estimate cals burnt and how active we are. So instead of fixating on the small amount of your waking hours that you’re doing a workout, instead focus on the rest of the time.
The calories you burn in a 45 min workout will be considerably fewer than what you burn being generally active for the rest of the day. So think about how you spend the rest of your day. Do you find yourself sitting more than perhaps you need to? Do you amble instead of walking with purpose? Do you take the lift instead of the stairs. Think beyond the gym and focus instead on making yourself more active – get up, stand instead of sit, walk faster, walk more!
Also don’t be tempted to eat exercise calories back – just treat them as bonus cals rather than something to eat back.
Exercise for health and well-being and focus on the food side of things if you want to lose weight!
🤗xx
Every Step Fitness 