Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

Fascinating take from Kurzgesagt (which I haven’t DYORed further).

TL;DW: your body burns roughly the same daily amount of calories whether you are active or not, based on your preset metabolism.

Working out has plenty of benefits, including cardiovascular health and lower inflammation, but losing weight by burning vastly more calories isn’t really one of them.

Dieting correctly (caloric intake) is key for that

Fascinating take from Kurzgesagt (which I haven’t DYORed further).

TL;DW: your body burns roughly the same daily amount of calories whether you are active or not, based on your preset metabolism.

Working out has plenty of benefits, including cardiovascular health and lower inflammation, but losing weight by burning vastly more calories isn’t really one of them.

Dieting correctly (caloric intake) is key for that

https://youtu.be/lPrjP4A_X4s

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Does working out change your metabolism? 

I imagine either does since diet does as well. So longterm working out helps? 

Didn’t watch the video, but it sounds off.

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Yes, you need to ingest more calories if you start working out, in large part because you need to sustain that new muscle mass.

But the key point is that between burning more calories (working out) and limiting your caloric intake (diet), the former makes less of a difference.

They also explain that this is somewhat new science that has compared active vs sedentary people and across a diverse genetic pool