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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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Darryl Yeo 🛠️ (at Devcon)

Fascinating. Would love to see more studies corroborating this.

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> body burns roughly the same daily amount of calories whether you are active or not, based on your preset metabolism. This is true for cardio, but if you build muscle you will change your body and increase your metabolism.

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That's why I found out making unnecessary intensity minutes is overrated. Found my zone 2 tempo I'm trying to practice outside each day around /subwork

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The study they cite is interesting but the video draws stronger conclusions than the study. A few points - 1 - The hazda tribe is very short(1.6m male avg) and weigh less(50.9 kg avg male) which means they have to be more active than the western population to burn the same amount of calories. from the table - a TEE/kg of hazda - 52, TEE/kg for west - 37.7 2- The study uses estimated BMR as opposed to actually measuring it. BMR is really important here - should have been measured 3- The hazda tribe walks about 9 km a day which is about 13k steps so not that high. The number for men is 11 km which is decent 4- The hazda tribe is WAYY leaner(13% bf men) than the western counterparts(probably due to a mix of diet and activity) The conclusion the study was trying to draw was that humans naturally like to be near a particular TDEE, not that TDEE is same regardless of your activity. That is - if a human is short then he might perform greater cardio to get the same amount of TDEE.

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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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a lot of people are probably doing harm to their body by punishing it too much. there's got to be a balance.

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My wife, a PT who's BA was in Exercise Science would mostly agree. Exercising increases muscle mass. Those muscles take more resources to maintain. That maintenance helps burn calories. Those calories are typically easy to find sugars, which forces the body to eat those fats for that "body burn". Real broad strokes, but it's good enough. It's the reason why a healthy, reasonable caloric intake is the biggest key to getting those abs or losing the pounds. Typically people are eating more than the burn. Muscles help that burn focus on fat because the muscles ate sugars.

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Stephen Caudill

Super interesting! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. 250 $DEGEN

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Connor McCormick ☀️

Found this fascinating, too

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yeps, u can change your BMR somewhat based on body comp but main way to lose weight (and also prolong lifespan) is caloric restriction.

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Interesting! Thanks to share!

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I love kurzgesagt! Their movies are fascinationg nad explain everything like for dummies

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