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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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.