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Despite an increase in information and research about health, fitness and nutrition, many myths still shape the fitness industry fads and workout habits of well-intentioned exercisers.Many new exercisers (and even seasoned athletes) often expect to start an exercise routine and magically drop the fat, sculpt their bodies and have endless stamina within a few weeks. It’s not an unrealistic expectation given the endless number of success stories promoted in the media, on television and in the gyms across the country.While many people may notice an initial weight loss, pretty soon the scale stabilizes and the mirror shows the same ole body that they started with a few months earlier.
This let-down generally leads to one of two common actions: exercise longer and harder, or lose all motivation and drop out altogether. The first group who exercises longer and harder often winds up with chronic injuries or exercise burn-out, while the drop out group generally tries again later when they find the next fad workout routine that promises more magical results. There has to be a better way to get fit, get healthy and have a body shape you appreciate. For anyone struggling with fad workouts that fail to get real results, one of the first steps to getting real with exercise is to understand what exercise can and can not do for fat loss.
Myth: To Lose Fat, You Need To Exercise More
One of the biggest misconceptions of fitness and fat loss is that exercise is the best way to change your body shape. The science tells an entirely different story. The biggest factor in shaping overall body composition is what you put into your body. Nutrition is the primary influencer of overall body composition. Yes, exercise, calories burned and even sleep, contribute to the equation, but if you are looking for real, sustainable changes in body fat percentage, start with your diet. Of course, it’s possible to get lean with endless cardio or strength training while eating mindlessly, but you will ultimately find that you have to do more and more exercise—to the point where your body will likely start to breakdown—in order to maintain your lean physique. This level of time and effort is not likely to work for the average exerciser. In fact, it’s not desirable either. It is possible to exercise for an hour or more every day and still gain weight. If you eat more calories, or the wrong calories, you can gain weight no matter how much you exercise. Similarly, you can not exercise at all and lose weight if you eat fewer calories than you are burning.
Truth: Good Nutrition Matters Most
The ideal fat lose formula combines smart nutrition, smart exercise and even smart rest in a combination that is manageable, healthy and comfortable to maintain over the long haul.
If your main goal is to lose body fat, the ideal path to success will include a focus on making the right nutritional choices first, and using exercise to help shape your body and boost your fitness. The research is clear: if the goal is fat loss, consuming few calories than you burn is more effective than simply doing more and more exercise.
Other trouble spots for those trying to lose weight with exercise include overestimating energy expenditure and underestimating calorie consumption.
Exercising an hour a day may sound like a lot, but if you are basically sedentary for the rest of your day you may not really be burning very many calories, and certainly not enough to justify eating lots of food because, “I work out.”
Many of us have desk jobs and spend a lot of time sitting. Not only is sitting a deadly habit, but it wreaks havoc on body composition. So if you want to maintain a healthy weight, you need to make it a priority to move more all day long, not just the hour you spend at spin class or on the treadmill. Take the stairs, walk to do errands, go outside after dinner, explore your neighborhood or a local park. Just make a point of moving more often every day.
In order to get real about what you consume, track it. Maybe not forever, but get real for a week at least. Write down everything you put in your mouth for an entire week and see how closely your beliefs match your behaviors. It’s amazing how many forgotten calories you can sneak in mindlessly. Track it and find out how much you actually eat before you complain that, “I hardly eat anything and keep gaining weight.”
Truth: Don’t Skip Strength Training
Finally, when it comes to exercise, keep in mind that adding strength training exercises can go a long way to help create a calorie deficit, add lean body weight, boost overall fitness and sculpt muscles, so don’t skip the weights.
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