The 3 Surprising Things That Keep You Fat
The 3 Surprising Things That Keep You Fat!
The fitness world is full of tricks and programs to help you lose weight.
They all promise amazing results in 4 weeks and lots of people fall into those traps.
Meanwhile, there are very simple things you can all do in order to get leaner and stronger all year round.
This starts by avoiding these 3 mistakes:
1/ Thinking you can outwork a bad diet
A full day of calorie allocation goes roughly like the following when you workout:
- 80% goes to your daily physiological needs and vital functions. Think of things like making your heart beat, breathing, brain activity etc. There is an optimum amount of calories needed for that.
- 20% goes to your workout efforts (what most people call "burning fat")
So no matter what your workout is and how intense it is, you will only burn around 20% of the calories you intake that day and anything on top of the vital 80% remaining calories will be stored as fat.
Here is an easy (hypothetical) example:
Let's say you need 1000 CALORIES per day to function and workout. You'll roughly allocate 800 calories to vital functions and 200 to your workout.
Now let's say you eat 1500 calories that day. You will be left with 500 calories that will be stored as fat.
Moral of the story, no matter the workout, you will need a calorie deficit to lose fat.
As simple as that.
2/ Thinking light cardio is training
Light cardio on a treadmill or stationary bike is definitely not training!
On the contrary, light cardio tricks people into thinking they produced a hard effort, when they see sweat (water) and feel their muscle getting slightly sore after they are done.
Long story short, this usually gets people thinking they had a "good workout", which leads them to eating more than they should, creating a daily calorie surplus that will be stored as fat.
Most people go on with their lives repeating that pattern over and over, leading to no results and at best maintaining their body fat.
3/ Chronic Lack of sleep
You spend between a third and half of your life sleeping, which makes it an essential part of our lifestyle.
Sleep is not only a vital element of our overall health (I would need many emails to go over that), it also governs your body fat percentage.
Not sleeping enough, or poorly (bad sleeping cycles) leads to the release of cortisol in your system.
This triggers a vital mechanism that helps us keep our body fat when we are exposed to extreme conditions and have to stay awake to survive (imagine being lost in the mountains with no food).
Simply put, poor sleeping habits will induce hormonal imbalances that will make you store fat against your will.
So to recap, if you want results, no workout plan matters until these 3 factors are taken into account.
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