Are You Exercising And Still Getting Fatter?
Sounds like a contradiction, how could anyone exercise and still be putting on weight?
But, this is what is happening to most people who exercise, rather than exercise giving them the body they want its taking them in the wrong direction. All those hours of slogging it out on the treadmill or stationary cycle machine have been a total waste of time.
Why?
Its seems that not only do we need to exercise to get in better shape we also need to work on the kinds of food we eat after exercise as well. New research suggests that the link between exercise and weight loss is overstated and if you want to lose weight successfully you need to take a look at your diet first.
The reason they give for the lack of success when losing weight with exercise is that we fail for these 2 reasons.
- We treat ourselves with our favorite snacks as a treat for all that “hard work” we did when we exercised. Thus undoing all the calories we burned off in the first place. leaving us either back at the same daily calorie intake as before or over that amount because of those little treats.
- We don’t realize the calories contained in food and think we can eat more than we really should. For example to burn off a small packed of raisins (120 calories) we need to do aerobics for 20 minutes.
Now honestly how many of use have treated ourselves to a small packet of raisins as a treat, be honest its usually a slice of our favorite pie or some “Ben & Jerrys” ice cream.
Now consider how many minutes of exercise its going to take to burn off that!
While the old thinking has been that you need to do hours and hours of boring cardio to get in shape. The best types of exercise for fat burning are the type where muscle growth is stimulated and some muscles mass is built.
This then goes on to burn calories for hours or days later after the session has ended rather than the sharp decline in fat burning that happens after doing some cardio workouts, for example jogging or running.
So the morale of the story is, if you’re going to treat yourself after your next exercise session, make sure that you treat yourself with a non food type of treat which isn’t going to undo all the good work you’ve done.
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