Brand new, first blog entry of the New Year and it is a good one! Would you expect any less? personaltrainerinmelbourne.au/personal-training/why-exercising-to-burn-calories-is-a-fools-errand Selected highlights follow: People do have a tendency to pick out one specific idea about nutrition in isolation, rather than within the context of “appropriate total energy”. This isn’t terribly helpful. Doing a better job of eating more nutrient dense vegetables is an excellent idea, but if doing so at the exclusion of more energy dense food choices means you are falling significantly short of your requirements, you will not see results from training. You cannot starve yourself into great, healthy, athletic shape. Getting enough vegetables to meet your micronutrient requirements does not mitigate the fact that failing to meet your minimum energy requirements is still a starvation based approach, and it will not work. ... Now hopefully the article title has given you a hint that “exercise and burn more calories” isn’t the right answer. It’s what most people are taught though, it’s what all the exercise programs, gadgets and stupid diet pills seem to be marketed on too. But really, the only purpose”burn more calories” serves is to replicate the effect of deliberately (or accidentally) under eating, and we’ve already covered at great length why that is not a beneficial strategy. The point of training for results as a distinction to just “exercising to burn calories” is not merely to expend energy as if energy has no value and is something to be gotten rid of. We have allocated the appropriate amount of energy and other nutritional resources, and now we want to ensure it is all put to use in becoming stronger and healthier, with more lean mass in terms of strong, dense bones and firm muscle tissue. We also want to encourage our body to draw more on energy stored in body fat to fuel non-exercise activity as well.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 04:18:16 +0000