Why exercising doesn't always mean you burn calories - BBC REEL
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- Common sense led us to believe that humans were programmed to be as physically active as they can and that the more exercise we do, the more calories we burn.
But from an evolutionary standpoint - these ideas are just myths. Dr Daniel Lieberman, author of 'Exercised', and Dr Herman Pontzer, author of 'Burn', explain why.
Video Journalists: Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira
Executive Producer: Griesham Taan
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Misleading title. The relationship between amount of exercise and calories burned doesn’t increase linearly, but being active does burn more calories than not being active.
that is true but the body already burn way more total calories in the background for other processes (ie: inflammation, immunity, and growth) than exercise did, exercise is just a small pie in the total energy usage, when we exercise it simply took the other process' share (eg: from inflammations) and never increase the total amount at all.
@@anchorread68 not if you run 20 miles a week. Try it.
Everyone who tracks calories burned during workouts (even in a lab) is disappointed by the actual fat loss from exercise.
The body is good as slowing other processes to compensate.
For weight loss, managing calorie intake is key. Exercise is secondary.
Exercise has other benefits. Weight loss is not one of them, unless you are an elite athlete, in which case, ignore what I just said.
@@Vamavid that is idiotic
@@DumbledoreMcCracken Prove me wrong.
Almost all the studies where weight loss was sustained for more than 12 months were studies where the intervention involved the consumption of calorie-dilute foods.
All the exercise ones, they lost very little weight and regained the weight within a year.
i agree. losing weight is more about watching what you eat and how much you eat. exercising is geared towards having a healthy heart, joints, muscles, reducing inflammation, strengthening the immune system, etc.
It depends on the exercise, if you are doing cardio only you will only burn little calories.. The other side strength training not only helps you build lean muscle but burn more calories in the resting stage.
Not so much how much. Calories in / out doesn't work. It's WHAT and WHEN. STOP snacking ditch the sugar and refined carbs. Calories are pointless
@@norriemckinley2850 calories in out works. I lost 26kg because I did omad. Just reduced the calories I am taking in. It's simple as that. Don't make this complicated because if someone who's wishing to lose weight sees your comment, it may confuse and scare them. You could eat ice cream and lose weight. It's all in the calories.
@@norriemckinley2850 I should report your comment for spreading misinformation. When I started my weight loss journey, I searched for weight loss advice. People like you said 5hit like "calories in out doesn't matter" and it confused the hell outta me. But I forged on. Most people want a simple thing. Most can't decide when to eat and eat clean always. The calories in out works. I am a living proof of that. No matter what "scientific research" says, bro science and real life experience is the real deal.
Edit: your comment made me really angry. Comments like yours made me helpless, confused when I was trying to do something good for myself.
@@troll2637 Calm down.
Let's start with public walk ways through the forest or even simpler, actual sidewalks on all residential and business zoning in US.
I like the idea that one can walk cross-country on a national walkway
@@noreworks that will boost the local economy AND give ideas for bucket list.
I moved to a suburb of Portland, Oregon many years ago and bought a bike thinking I would use it to ride to the store which was 1-2 miles away. The first time I tried going to the store I had so many close calls of nearly getting hit that I never rode the bike again.
@@rabbit251 huh, that's interesting, for cycling community, we thought portland was known for it's cycling scene
@@noreworks Portland City is, but I lived in Beaverton and outside the city there weren't any sidewalks, many main roads didn't have curbs only a gravel side and ditch.Hopefully it has gotten better over the years.
I’ve built a lifestyle around cycling, and this alone has made a monumental shift in my body conditioning. I wasn’t always fit, I’ve gone through ebbs and flows in my teens and 20’s, but now I’m my 30’s it’s simply how I get around, and has normalized fitness for me. Aside from the aesthetics of being fit, it feels good to have a good functioning body. I believe that everyone should have access to a bike or lightweight machine that they participate in its locomotion. If we used power more responsibly, we could usher in a new realm of transit that is not just healthier for humanity, but a path to a more sustainable future.
I'm similar with walking. I was surprised this weekend when I stayed with a friend in a different city. We were going into the town centre and got a bus there. It was quite a short trip, so when we were finished in town I suggested we walked back because it was a nice day. She was surprised and said that she had never walked into town - only half an hour's walk! - in all the six months she'd lived there! I had to readjust my perceptions of how active I am accordingly 😅
Congrats mate, you did well for you and your health !
A friend changed his body with bike too, he was always fat, in 6 month he became really really fit and lean
For me it works with walking, i do 10 000 steps a day mini, currently at 1800 km done in 6 month, for around 2 100 000 steps. It really changed everything for me, not just physical health but motivation for all the little things of the life, social behaviours, mental health in general
Keep grinding mates ! 👍
HEY MORONS: *diet causes the body to reduce muscle not fat*
Nice!!
I love this for everyone in this thread, it really brings some hope to my eyes when I see that people not only don't rely on cars, but can actually get around places by simply walking or biking. America has created a strange way to get around with it's insistence on vehicular transportation and it absolutely kills me every time I think about getting around on a bicycle.
I think that the fact that the African Tribe burnt less than the average American is due to the fact that their WEIGHT is lower . The more you weight ,the more calories you burn (that's why obese people have very high caloric expenditure and thin people have pretty low calorie expenditure) . Metabolic adaptation DOES happen (it probably prevents the tribe from burning 4000+ calories per day ) but if you consider an American with the same weigh as them , the people from the tribe would burn more.
Absolutely. I was thinking about those African tribes compared to a 280lbs body builder. There's NO WAY the energy expenditure is the same. The research must've been looking at expenditure per pound or kilo or something.
Come on, surely the researchers took this into account!
They didn't travel around many hunter-gatherer tribes, which must be super hard to reach, without thinking through confounding factors.
@@DiegoLasCasas I doubt the "researchers" did any more than confirm their preexisting bias.
@@DumbledoreMcCracken you sound like one of those people who believe vaccine causes autism
@@hardlytrying649 nope
Let's make this ultra clear though - exercise DOES burn more calories than being sedentary. The reason the energy expenditure would have been equal in the study is because those doing more exercise (who were all lean and healthier, don't forget, and expending less energy when moving) and would have been essentially sedentary the rest of the time and not over-eating. Your body naturally reacts to busier lives by wanting you to reduce the weight you're carrying so Grelin will only make you crave around half of what you burned during intense exercise.
So yes, to lose weight, it is still an enormous help in calorie reduction if you're also doing cardio, on top of the other obvious benefits of cardio.
I wasn't clear how they measured the calorie expenditure of the tribe. Maybe some of them sit around a lot. But the video implied that you can do a ton of activity without burning calories....
The increase in caloric expenditure wasn't particularly helpful for me to lose weight when I started working out 6x/week because I would unconsciously end up making up those 300 calories lost during my meals (e.g. an extra tbsp of peanut butter). However, exercising (specifically weight training) did force me to increase my protein intake substantially to be able to maintain my 6x/week routine. A high protein diet made it super easy to maintain a caloric deficit since it's super satiating (I've cut 30 lbs in the last 6 months). Ultimately there are a lot of nuances on leveraging exercise for weight loss.
@@shayk4791 Yes calories are the basic physics unit of energy. But they don't take into account fat vs muscle. The big difference between us and a car is that we can increase our "engine size" by building muscle, and so burn more fuel
@@oliverford5367 I agree with you that more muscle mass will burn more calories. My point was that the difference isn't too significant even after you put on 10 to 15 lbs of muscle (which I would argue is a great achievement for the average person). This is just based on my personal experience as I lost weight but gained muscle simultaneously so other people's experience may vary.
Hard to say. I guess factors such as having more body weight will mean you expend more energy just walking around due to weight. Another factor is if you run 3K's every day, you will get really efficient at it, to the point that it wouldn't count, though running 16k's per day would net different results. Then also figure in that most people can't gain much muscle "mass" without drugs, so it's not a big factor for "most" people, depending on genetics. They may have excluded factors such as temperature, as Aircon life is way less demanding. But it all comes down to eating less in the end, relative to what you need. It's a sad painful truth, that can take many years of eating adjustments and self culture change to get right.
I agree with most of this but it's definitely not true that you need a fancy gym membership or equipment to be able to exercise. If Lockdown has taught me anything, it's that it's perfectly possible to exercise very well at home or just in any space for that matter.
Well said
I was wondering why he had to slip in the comment about exercise being an activity reserved for the rich. All you need is a comfy running or walking footwear.
@@ndubuisiazuka31 Because he thinks people are stupid, and he thinks he's enlightening them by saying that you can exercise outside of a gym.
Exercising for the rich? And you need gym membership? The most stupid statement I've heard this month! 😂😂😂
It was meant as an opposite of historical example when kings and aristocracy could "afford" not to do anything. There is no part in video where there was a claim that you need that "Fancy gym membership" to have "possible exercise". The whole video is quite the opposite with lots of various examples from running with friend to simply walk your god or take a walk to your office instead of taking elevator, so I really don´t understand why you picked this one part about completely different idea and choose to rip it out of its context. Problem is most people struggle with SELF motivation, that is why if you don´t have something like pandemic when people are prohibited from doing anything "fun" in most cases they just go back to "old normal".
A majority of weight loss is calorie deficit; plain and simple. However exercising increase muscle mass, meaning the larger muscles require more energy to maintain themselves, so by proxy, exercising does make you lose weight, but only if you maintain that calorie deficit. Often, those who workout and build up higher muscle mass also increase their appetite and therefore their calorie intake.
Yeah, it's important to up your calorie intake relative to muscle mass. Most of the extra intake should be protein, too. Problem is that most people overestimate how much they need.
The only effective way of losing weight is fasting and excercising whilst in a fasting state. All "diets" are nonsense and you will never succeed with them long term.
Weight lose is always about diet.
I went walking in the lake District and list half a stone in a week.
Intermittent fasting with excercise has helped me tremendously in my weight loss journey..
Exercise is for strength and endurance. If you do it to lose weight, it’ll be disappointing. 30-60 min a day won’t cut it if the rest of the time you’re sitting or laying down.
not if you run 20 miles a week
Balanced exercise may also change your body composition (fat vs muscle percentage). So it can make you appear leaner/less flabby even if you don't lose weight from it.
this is not true and blatantly false... all you need is a caloric deficit which can still very well be achieved by exercise, especially if you’re exercising 30-60 mins daily
This is not correct. As long as you're consuming less calories than you're burning, you'll lose weight. With ANY kind of exercise you can lose weight, if you're not overeating.
I would also add mental health to that. A good run and/or walk releases pent-up negative energy so I become less reactive and a lot calmer.
This is inspiring. I went through a period of time being almost bedbound with severe health problems. It made me feel really isolated and depressed especially as I relied on exercise to destress and keep a good weight. It was really hard to stick to a healthy diet when bored, stressed and cooped up. Very depressing being like that in an apartment. I like that this video is empathetic to the limiters people face and isn't just "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" it's educational and encouraging.
Lies again? I thought that any physical activity would burn calories whether little or much?
These people are lying to try to make fat people better about being fat. Exercising burns significantly extra calories
It's meant to make you feel good. Beware of anything that does that and takes responsibility away from the individual
HEY MORONS: *diet causes the body to reduce muscle not fat*
@@NazriB that's correct. Exercise does burn more calories than being sedentary. It's actually stupid to say otherwise.
Car favoured infrastructure is to be blamed for the lack of public total daily energy expenditure.
The Hadza also move very efficiently because they do those activities daily, which means they use much less energy than an average American. They’re also of a lower body weight which means less energy to move due to less weight needing to be moved a certain way. The more efficient we become at something, the less energy we use.
exactly. this doesn't not support their theory. these people are whole-live-trained to be body-energy efficient. can't compare calories spent to regular office worker.
Not true.
This is why people in the West are obese.
They believe they can eat all easily-accessible and calorie-dense meats, dairy products, eggs and oils they can afford, as long as they exercise later.
The Hadza can only get to eat that if they catch it, so their average calorie intake is lower.
Nothing to do with the Hadza being efficient, or burning more calories.
@@Vamavid running is awesome
@@Vamavid while that is true, the original comment is also true if you know anything about sports science. They clearly have a very low bodyfat and weigh less than the average American. Basic biology dictates they will be more efficient at preserving energy (in the form of calories) when doing any form of physical activity.
*Extremely misleading title.* *_Everything_* anyone does burns calories, even sitting, thinking, sleeping, etc.
Exercising *_does_* push the body to burn more calories than an idle, sedentary state.
Sure, the body is a wonderful machine that adapts to many many things, but saying ''Exercising doesn't mean you burn calories'' is _extremely_ misleading and I expected a much more accurate title, especially from the BBC
I urge you to change the title to something that isn't misleading or couldn't be misinterpreted - something akin to
_''Why exercising doesn't necessarily mean you burn more calories''_ would be more appropriate, but even then, it can be misinterpreted.
Please, do better BBC Reel 🙏
But in the common understanding, people only care about the extra calories they burn, not that baseline.
And your body is always trying to get you close to that baseline as it can.
@@cbpd89 Yes - and even when taking all you said into consideration, the title is still very misleading. When exercising, you *_do_* burn calories, and you burn more than baseline, on top of the metabolic changes that also lead to an increased baseline calorie use caused by exercising.
Exercise does nessesarily mean you burn more calories.
@@SantanaBanana47
Yes, it does 100%.
For your limbs to move back and forth it needs energy. It needs molecules high in energy.
If that wasn't the case, why tf are we digging up fossil fuels? We'd just have to put people on exercise bikes and they could give us arbitrary amounts of power.
It's misleading to the point of being irresponsible. Shame on BBC.
You can't out exercise a poor diet.
The issue is not that people are not able to afford a gym membership (you can exercise at a local park or at home) the problem is that the food that is most affordable and easily available is highly processed and designed to feed our hardwired craving for sugary, fatty foods... And to sate the appetite.
Yes you can. If you have a poor diet, but begin exercising heavily, you will eventually reach a crossroads with a choice between improving your diet, or stopping your improvement in ability.
Bad food will make people unprepared for really strenuous activity, and for me, gives me an upset stomach. When I'm out of shape, I can eat a ton of junk food.
Sure I buy that some people ONLY have access to fast food, but a lot more people could eat a pretty healthy diet. It doesn’t cost a fortune but it takes knowledge and willpower. Maybe a lot of folks are so stressed these days that it’s hard to find the willpower. Anyway there are a bunch of people that have little excuse except millions of years of evolution.
Processed food is designed to be addictive which is why it is possible to eat so much of it throughout the day. The food industry are happy to sell such products because they are full of cheap ingredients, such as sugar for taste and bulk. Real food contains nutrients and fibre which our body uses for energy, to control our appetite and support our microbiome. The more real food we eat the better because it is the correct fuel for our bodies.
@@Morhua1 lots of willpower it takes
@@helenhucker346 I absolutely agree Helen
I'm a survivor of aortic dissection and I can say with 100% certainty that diet plays a bigger role than folks realize. I have to be hypervigilant with calories, fat, sodium, and sugar due to medically managing an unhealed portion of my dissection. As a result, I've lost 45 lbs, going from 205 lbs when I dissected to a solid 160 lbs today - all by using a tracker app for food and activity. The kicker is I'm less active now than I was pre-dissection, the most activity I get is a daily 20 minute walk after lunch and regular office work duties. My bloodwork is solid, my BP is excellent now just for the record (some daily meds involved). It's certainly not as fun - alcohol, caffeine, many restaurants, and other conveniences are off limits - but the results are worth it. Weight control is math and discipline, nothing more.
Is the caffeine restriction because of your specific medical condition?
*So true. Before lockdown i was very negligent towards my overall health. I was eating too much fried food & junk food, too much spicy foods etc. But during lockdown i started running on ground daily 2.5km with other exercises. I suddenly seen changes happening in my body. I started feeling more physically active, mentally more intrigued in verious stuff, my focus increased, my family relations got improved, i got in best university in country. Overall my life got uplift by this exercise & running routine of everyday. So this is true. My metabolism is working absolute fine and due to this im becoming more +ve day by day. This is healthy changed i observed within myself.*
the best fix for depression and most 'normal' (meaning non-severe like BPD for example) mental health issues is physical activity.
Human's have not evolved at the same rate our lifestyles and technology has. We still crave outdoors and fresh air, companionship, physical activity, and completing goals for happiness.
Healthy lifestyle is the easiest solution to all of this, and comes without the hiccups or side effects that medication brings.
I really wish I had access to this information years ago. But I am very glad I now do. This will change my life in a positive way.
What an eye-opener! Thanks a lot🙂
This is very motivational. during the lockdown I went through a period in which I spent most of my time in bed.... I relied on working out to relieve stress and maintain a healthy weight. When I was bored, stressed out, and cooped up all day, it was really difficult to stick to a healthy diet. Being trapped like that in an apartment is extremely depressing. but vids like this realy helped! thank you!
My grandma used to refer to outside exercise, which she took rain or blizzard or wind or shine, as “getting the stink blown off”. She was nearly 100 when she passed. I still smile when I walk outside- now I ask my boys (age 5 and 6) if they want to go blow the stink off!
We need to start detangling exercise from aesthetics and tie it to health instead.
Why do "we" need to do something? Many people exercise to look better, and your own personal values doesn't indicate what "we" should all do.
@@theaccordian9377 I don't think you've contemplated the problem long enough. Especially not from the point of view from an overweight person that struggles with weight loss.
My point of view is, if the weight ain't comin' off, at least you're putting on muscle mass and getting fitter and stronger. It's still preventing terrible health issues. For a lot of people, myself included, the focus on aesthetics stops them from exercising completely. By decoupling it from weight loss, we actually start feeling more motivated to do it because we end up realizing there are many more benefits to it, than just appearing acceptable to a bunch of pointless ingrates.
Exercise for aesthetic reasons if you choose to but don't constantly remind people of their excess weight. Some of us are more motivated by the fact we're getting fitter, stronger, faster and healthier.
@@CybernautZero good news is that if you’re really improving your fitness and health you’ll probably also start to lose fat lol
I hated going to the gym. But I knew I needed to be active. For me, I found a sport that could engage my mind long-term. And that for me is tennis. If I have no one else to play with, I just practice my serve for at least 30 minutes. It almost feels like archery --- I pick out a spot to aim. Sometimes, I play with a wall. I've been doing this for 5 years now, 5 days a week. I never bore of it.
This is great news for me. Having a couple autoimmune disorders, plentiful exercise is one of the only things that makes me feel more or less alive. One of those disorders (crohn's) kills appetite tho so I've often worried I've been burning calories I can't afford to lose.
Agree to everything, except for the last sentence.
You don't have to be rich in order to be active. Just go to the park and walk/run.
Be active with what you have. No gym is needed. Only your body and will.
in some countries being poor means living in neighborhoods where parks are either not available and if they are, it is not safe.
I agree with you. I'm not rich and I am active.
I agree, I am active every day and have never been to a gym in my life. I do yoga in my house, run, bike, walk, watch free youtube videos, etc.
Just literally drop and do push ups. That's half of a physique already. You can be massively stronger and better looking than most people just by pushing yourself away from the ground a lot.
What a great video. Thank you. Favorites.
This taught me one thing for sure
No pre conceived notion of fitness is 100% correct as researches are still going on. Thus, you must plan yourself for the best results.
I love this storytelling, and how cool to break up the good news about exercise with books popping off the shelves. Just talking with friends after swimming yesterday about the importance of people going together to workout. Hunter gatherers probably don't have our stress levels because they spent the day outside. We're broken because we don't talk with trees and plants and animals the way we used to to survive.
Mountain biking helps me interact with trees, plants and the occasional animal. ;)
There's no/less nature in cities and even if you do have some in your house, unless it's a lot of plants or animals, when your surroundings are concrete, pollution and congestion... :(
Assuming you believe those stories...not everyone does.
@@rpavich What stories? Being in touch with nature? If you don't understand what the original comment means then you will never understand it. The only way to understand that is to go take a break from where you are living and live for a while where there is more nature and less people. Or you can try growing plants.
You only have to search for experiments where scientists detect the way plants communicate.
Plants and animals and nature are living things. Just because you do not understand them doesn't mean they do not communicate. Try watching how fungi use communication for forests. How trees communicate with each other.
Again. The keyword is: living things.
Here you go: Some videos.
How trees communicate with each other. czcams.com/video/7kHZ0a_6TxY/video.html
Electrical experiments with plants counting czcams.com/video/pvBlSFVmoaw/video.html
Those are old videos. There are a lot of videos out there.
HEY MORONS: *diet causes the body to reduce muscle not fat*
my grandma is 102 and still wakes up early feeds her animals, and very active during the day. She also does not sleep during the day so that she can fall asleep right away at night.
This is silly; you literally will burn calories by watching this video and processing it with your brain. Just because you don't lose a whole lump of body fat after a cardio or gym session doesn't mean you're not making progress. Keep at it, Kings and Queens! You got this!
@newtonvoig money is such a toxic thing it’s really sad isn’t it
@@illiyo3832 Obviously, it’s still possible to lose weight on any diet - just eat fewer calories than you burn, right? The problem with this simplistic advice is that it ignores the elephant in the room: hunger. Most people don’t like to “just eat less,” as it may result in having to go hungry forever. Sooner or later, many will likely give up and eat without restriction, hence the prevalence of “yo-yo dieting.” While it should be possible to lose weight on any diet, some appear to make it easier and some to make it much harder.
The main advantage of the low-carb diet is that it may cause you to want to eat less. Even without counting calories, overweight people tend to eat fewer calories on low carb. Thus, calories count, but you don’t need to count them.
@@d.bcooper2271 You might see short term results with " just eat fewer calories than you burn" The only effective way of losing weight is fasting and excercising whilst in a fasting state. All "diets" are nonsense and you will never succeed with them long term.
This is the cold, hard truth I had to learn the hard way. For four years, I swam for forty minutes three times a week, and walked briskly for at least an hour every day I wasn't swimming - and in that whole time, I lost maybe 2-3lbs of the 2-and-a-half stone I needed to lose. Then, last year, I finally made some very necessary changes to my diet - and, within seven months, that 2-and-a-half stone was gone. I still do the swimming three times a week, but I've cut back on the walking (I probably still walk around outside for an hour or more each day just doing ordinary stuff like shopping, but I no longer do the hour-long walk ON TOP of that, like I used to.) As a result, I'm less tired during the day and I can get more stuff done. And I don't miss the way I used to eat; I thought I'd never be able to give up diet soft drinks and replace them with plain water in a million years, for example, but now I'm turned off by even the thought of drinking them.
Same experience here. Kept my weight roughly equal despite increasing time and effort on the Bike. Then decided to talk to a specialist to school me about food i found out that I just needed to reduce my calory intake to a Point which is below the intake where my weight is stable. So within 2 month i lost weight.
As you said, you learned from experience, but yea, the bottom line is that you can't keep stuffing 3000+ calories a day down your throat and expect to lose weight from 1-2 hours of exorcise; even if that exorcise if burning 500+ calories (unlikely that much, but not impossible), you are still way over what you need.
I know some people like this, and despite needing to lose 100-300 pounds, they continue to eat the same amount of crap they always have, thinking the exorcise alone will make up for whatever huge surplus they are taking in.
Diet soft drinks weren’t making you fat, they may not be healthy but they won’t add an ounce of fat to your body. I’ve competed in bodybuilding and got down to extreme body fat percentage and still drank them regularly.
HEY MORONS: *diet causes the body to reduce muscle not fat*
It actually isn't the truth. Your just misinterpreting things. You were definitely burning calories. You were just eating more than you were expending.
Apparently the top end of Hadza males weigh around 130lbs. Compare that to the average weight of American males at 200lbs, American males will have a much higher BMR, meaning if a Hadza male and an American male both lay completely still for an entire day, the American male might burn as much as 500 calories more because of the amount of energy required to sustain the extra 70lbs. Say a hunter-gatherer walks ca. 15k steps a day, that will be in a range between 500-1k extra calories depending on weight, age etc. So the fact that the energy expenditures in the study are similar doesn't surprise me. They should take a group of people of same age/height/weight, and compare sedentary to hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and the results will most likely be quite different
I agree. I am not buying the "you dont burn more calories". Exercise burns calories. If you take one person 110lbs sedentary and compare them with another of the same height and weight but who runs 10 miles a day, they are going to maintain on more calories. Yet he is saying this is not the case? You CANT compare two populations or people who are completely different weights...
Wtf. It'd need an entire gang of Hadza to stop one American.
Is 'exercise' referring to cardiovascular activities or does it include strength training? I was under the assumption that lean mass is more metabolically active and would assist with weight management. Thus, gaining muscle leads to increases in resting/basal metabolic rates and would assist with losing fat mass.
true, but his point is that you still burn within a certain range of calories a day due to other systems burning a little less to compensate. He didn't give the range though. He's comparing activity to hunter/gathers...which i doubt are more active then someone on a serious exercise routine. The advice to put on some muscle with some level of calorie deficit is still the best way to lose fat.
@@BobbyJ529 you're right, they aren't more active than someone on a serious exercise regiment. They set a lot--though they don't sit in chairs, which probably makes a difference to core strength. They also walk about 10,000 steps a day.
I'm 30 and I've been lifting weights 6x/week for the last 8 months (on top of walking around 4 km a day) and have lost about 30 lbs during that time. During this time despite putting on a lot of muscle, my metabolism barely changed in any meaningful way no matter how much i worked out (I've been tracking calorie consumption and weight loss on a daily basis since then). My weight loss was purely a result of making sure I didn't overeat and avoiding empty calories (e.g. alcohol). That said, you should still exercise (both cardio and weight training) since it's the best thing you could do for your mind and longevity (just not weight management).
@@shayk4791 This! Gaining muscle makes you hardly burn more fat/calories
I believe human metabolic rates adapt to stresses…restrict calories and increase exercise then your metabolism slows.
People already have the resources to exercise, it's called running.
True
I was (and still am) a fan of running, but to be honest, WALKING is so much useful when it comes to resources for staying fit
Walking makes it easier for people to:
- keep themselves in a light to moderate heart rate zone, which helps using fat as a primary energy resource rather than depleting glycogen stores
- helps to minimize the impact on joints - therefore it is far more easier to prevent injuries
I still love running, but it is not for everybody and definitely not for every type of health and fitness condition...
Man, even push ups and planks can burn a lot of energy if done right. That is how I lost weight.
Hormones determine if your body will burn or store your excess energy as fat:) Exercise helps to improve insulin sensitivity and overall fat burning.
Not to mention the mere act of building muscle in itself will consume calories (protein mostly).
Misleading title completely out of context. That would be better:
"Exercising more, doesn't mean that your total daily energy expenditure will increase, because if your body burns more energy than usual during exercise, it will find a way to compensate that loss, by being "lazy" later in the day. In other words, you will be tired".
What you need to exercise at home is just a pair of dumbbells and a pull-up bar. A gym membership becomes necessary when your body weight and dumbbells become less and less challenging for the muscle groups you intend to train.
We don’t need facilities to exercise. So many ways to do it. Body weight exercises, bike to work, walk more, lift any available heavy object, play sports that interest you, dance, etc.
Try to be at least somewhat active throughout the day. If your job requires you to sit all day, go for one or more walks throughout the day. Try to get at least 1 hour of moderate intensity exercise per week, and eat sensibly. Doing this even sort of consistently will make you so much healthier than those who make no effort at all.
As much as I appreciate this kind of content, which is very informative btw, I think there are few mistakes need to be pointed out as we can read in the comment part. The title is also very misleading and wrongly concluded from the early premises
I'm glad someone else noticed.
From what I have learnt from running, it is possible that the hunters have higher endurance and their heart rate shoots up less for the same exercise for an average person. Hence, the discrepancy.
As one saying goes "Abs are made in the kitchen and shown off in the gym"
I am sure those hunter gatherers like Hajdas weigh much less than sedentary western people. So those western people are burning (and consuming) high number of calories just to maintain their higher weight. The calories they need to maintain their weight is as high as those light but active hunter gatherers. Imagine those inactive people weighing as low as the hunter gatherers. In that case they would burn much less calories than their hunter gatherers counterparts. Don't know if the researchers took this into account.
The researchers anyway retract their claim that exercising people won't burn more calories, by stating that the one doing more exercise will do less exercise at other times. This could appear like a logical conclusion from the law of the conservation of energy, at first appearance, while at least one additional factor to be taken into account is the amount of calories burnt by the _brain._
The one who exercises also has a better sleep, so perhaps he'll burn less when he sleeps because his pulse will go down and his body temperature will accordingly decrease.
Then there is the confusing situation that a person who doesn't exercise will become heavier and because of this practically do _more_ exercise than a lighter person, as soon as he just walks a single step. Someone who weighs 80 kg does as much exercise by walking a given stretch as a person who weighs 50 kg but carries a 30-kg bag of cement. So if you just wait a few months until you weigh 30 kg more, you can stop to do any sort of obvious exercise and still exercise especially much, all the time.
Exactly! A 5'7" 220 lb female is obese, but she will burn more calories going to walmart for icecream than a gatherer women will burn digging for roots, just because the 220 lb woman moves 60 lb more bodyweight than the gatherer woman.
I've been in gyms over half my life, and I've watched countless people slave away doing workouts for years and barely shed a pound. If you wanna lose weight, you need to completely rethink everything you know about eating, stress management, daily movement habits, sleep, hydration, even relationships and past trauma. If you wanna get freakishly strong or build a great butt, move your body in ways that stimulate growth in the chosen areas. Simple.
Brilliant and well expressed research. Loving these BBC Reels videos!
He is a crackpot.
Only equipment you need is yourself! You don’t need a Gym because you are the gym. You can do body weight exercises ex - push ups, planks, sit ups, body weight jump squats, lunges, running in place. Jumping jacks, if you a tree outside you can do pull -ups! You can do all of these exercises in your home or basement or backyard. Grab your AirPods/headphones and just do it. If you’re out of shape do just 10 mins & keep adding on until you can do a hour a day 3-5 x’s a week. You well feel great your ❤well be stronger. Watch your diet & you will lose weight. No gym needed.
This raises more questions then answers
The title is enough for me and many people like me, no need to watch. It is all I need to justify sitting on the couch or in the bed all day, laughing at all those who exercise to lose weight. Why do hiking, swimming, running, stretching or lifting, when it does NOTHING for weigthloss. Thanks, mainstream media, keep preaching the Truth!
Lmao this video is bullshit. I'm still gonna workout and eat well
Because you do it for health, not weight loss. Detangle it from aesthetics.
@@easypianobeautifulmusic2974 The video never said you shouldn't bother.
@@CybernautZero ik this video was for educational purposes but it is highly problematic just from the title itself because people can use it justify their laziness and fatness/obesity is already a big problem. Wait till I tell coach Greg about this video !
@@easypianobeautifulmusic2974 Can’t believe people still watch him after he sold out 2ish years ago
I find it so depressing that as adult, the only way we see sport is something tirering we have to do to stay healthy.
We use to have so much fun as kids, when we could do the sports we liked without getting judge, without people telling us that they aren't an effective way of exercicing. I hate the gym culture where sport is reduced to a performance, an effort, a necessary burden. Where every one does the same sport that only a few enjoy, because it what we are told is good for you, because we don't know any better, or at least we forgot. In reality I don't think anyone hate sport, but when sport is doing repetitive and frustrating movement where the outcome is the only thing that push us forward, it's normal that many get discourage.
As a kid I did sports mostly because I was forced to at school.
Now I do sports, because they're fun and they make me stronger and better looking.
If my old teachers could see me running, climbing, wrestling, swimming for fun, they wouldn't believe their eyes.
In Asian countries we use mostly public transport or walk. But moving to Australia, especially Perth, I've noticed they are obsessed with cars, once they turn 16 yrs of age they go for driving class, even though public transportation have improved so much.
Activity and exercising is best stress killer
As a woman I definitely do not agree that metabolism slows down only after 60. For me, it started to slow down after menopause.
But your diet is the catalyst
That’s just your opinion/feeling though. Lab settings show otherwise and your “slow metabolism” is more likely caused by eating more calories.
@@ondrej1893 are you a woman?
@@ondrej1893 do you happen to know a study (preferably with a high number of participants) that compares the calory needs of women pre, during and post menopause and also after 60? *Please share it!!*
It's important to acknowledge that a lot of nutritional and medical studies are conducted with men (or post menopausal women) so reliable data unfortunately is not readily available.
Sucks to have to count calories all the time. It's like doing taxes everyday.
Encorperating exercising into the daily routine helps. If the grocery store is nearby and you only need one or two small items you could walk to and from the grocery store. This also saves on gas. Using public transport to and from your various destinations if possible also helps. Exercising with friends who are supportive of the idea also has been known to work as well.
HEY MORONS: *diet causes the body to reduce muscle not fat*
Lmfaooo not the TikTok sound in the beginning 😂😂
Yes, it does.
That was an amazingly interesting thing to learn today. Maybe with the body happens exactly like with our brain: the more you repeat something, the less energy it needs to spend. As we get stronger, the body probably needs less energy to make, for instance, the same distance that got you tired a month ago.
This is very true. Plateauing is an actual issue. That is why gym heads always do progressive overload. You cannot keep lifting the same weight. You have to increase the reps or weight bit by bit to keep improving your physique.
HEY MORONS: *diet causes the body to reduce muscle not fat*
That's not how it works.
If you want to move an object with a certain weight from A to B, you need a certain amount of energy.
@@user-nm3ug3zq1y except it does, the body adapts in order to become more *efficient*
@@picgmr1575, it can't adapt away the energy need for movement.
What it mainly does is reduce NEAT.
Which just means you move less overall on that day to conserve some energy.
That's different to what was claimed.
Very interesting video!
the amount of stock videos used for this video is kinda astonishing
What I can observe is that I burn more calories in winter than in summer, although I exercise in all seasons. This makes me wonder if those hunter-gatherers found to burn just as many calories as a sedentary American may manage to do so because they live in a warmer part of Earth.
Yeah thermal regulation require significant amount of calories
In summer Im going for long hikes in the mountains, while in the winter i stay more at home watching TV, so for me I burn more calories in summer. (I live in Norway)
@@Sindruzzzz Where exactly, in that country? I could imagine that you hardly get out of your house, during the winters of Norway's northern parts.
@@HansDunkelberg1 It’s in Scandinavia. (North Europe). I live in south Norway so it’s not so bad here, but the days are short during winter and long during summer. While in Northern Norway there is polar nights in winter, and midnight sun in summer
@@Sindruzzzz I didn't mean to ask where Norway is, although I live in a small European country which often is confused with Australia and accordingly associated with kangaroos, myself. The location of Norway isn't so simple to imagine, anyway; I typically imagine it as higher than myself because it's that far to the north, while it in reality lies _below_ my northern horizon (just like even the North Pole).
Apparently there still are living quite some people also in the north of Norway. I'm reading that a city of Tromsø there has over 70,000 inhabitants. That's the second biggest city north of the Arctic Circle, after Murmansk with its over 300,000 people. Tromsø, partially because of mountains around it, experiences two entire months without immediate sunlight per year. Certainly you'll obtain a short phase, after all, at many days during which there still emerges a bright shimmer to the south - like some far greeting from the summer, which then becomes especially endurant (even though not especially hot), likewise, once it has arrived again.
The coldness of that region even seems to have triggered a selection of especially massive individuals. The bigger a body gets, the longer it needs for a loss of its warmth. The surface area of a sphere only grows with the square of the radius, the volume with the cube. Hence, a bigger animal has a comparatively small surface area through which its heat can escape. One Karl Bergmann has made a rule, out of this (named after him), according to which the exemplars of a species use to be bigger at higher latitudes. A colleague named Joel Asaph Allen has added another law, according to which the exemplars at such places also should be stouter - which again is to be associated with the reduced heat loss of such bodies.
Who knows - perhaps those researchers finding that hunter-gatherers only burn as many calories as people of a sedentary lifestyle may have had some northern-Eurasian tribes, or tribes of other cold regions, among their subjects who manage to get along with little energy because they are bigger than usual.
With the sedentary peoples of the USA and of Canada, meanwhile, such tendencies into size and stoutness could apply too, given the share of Brits and of Germans among the ancestors. The Mediterranean peoples (Portuguese and Spaniards, especially) rather have settled parts of the Americas farther south, for certain because they were more congenial with the climates of those destinations than with cooler ones.
Exercise has many benefits,,but sometimes, I'm so lazy to flex my body..it's more on self discipline,I'm pushing myself to sweats..I need it,, especially that I'm already in my 5o's
0:27 that was a surprising switch with the bg music..!!
You had me at stock photo thumbnail girl
Doing cardio doesn't help me lose weight, only lifting weights. Best way I can describe it is historically, when you were at rest, you are happy and you were safe in the village. You were doing your work, you were lifting things, youre bulking up and you were losing fat. Now an invading Army comes along, you need to run, you need to run to the next safe place. At this point, your body is saving energy, not getting rid of fat, because you could be in a crisis mode.
I started walking. at least an hour to 1.5 hours a day and lost quite a bit of weight from it. Of course I avoid overeating as well.
"Why driving doesn't mean you burn gas"
It's one of those things that people in my live continue to repeat to me, no matter their age or background. And when I am telling them about these more recent finds they usually do not believe it either.
Change building codes, allow mixing residential and commercial, make neighborhoods walkable. Driving a car to a store and then wasting electricity in gym is pure idiocy.
Agree
Japan is a lot like that Tokyo is a huge walkable city.
Detangling exercise from weight loss is something I actually find motivating.
I mean, it still helps majorly to exorcise. It is much harder to change your diet permanently than it is to work out or jog for 20 minutes.
If you don't value strength or endurance and only care about fat, then I think people shouldn't worry about exercise to lose fat.
But if you value those things even a little, I would suggest most people to forget about fat loss and only try to become more enduring or stronger.
As someone who works out a lot both in a gym and outside, if you want to loose weight, eat less than you burn. Simple as that. Exercising does mean that you burn calories but if you eat like a pig ( no offense to pigs ) aka far more than you need and/or the wrong type of food, you will simply not loose any weight.
You said at 6:37 : "it's only reach people who can afford gym memberships". In my US middle income neighborhood my gym is about $8 per month for unlimited visits, which you probably spend more on soda per day. This gym has 24/7 access and lots of new equipment. What country are you from?
This comparison to a less advanced Tanzanian Society really abandon the other factors like diet of natural and not Mass produced products for consumption. I think the bigger picture here is with regards to all of the aspects besides sedentary lifestyles, though that obviously plays a factor
This was great! It put something in true perspective for me. I've been a runner for about 14 years and ran my first marathon in 2019. In the process of training and running the marathon, I only lost 4lbs. I was already in decent shape and I wasn't running to lose weight, but I had expected to lose more weight due to how much I was exerting myself. Albeit, I also upped my calorie intake as I progressed through the training, so I suppose it just "evened out." But it makes a lot of sense that marathon running is far from an evolutionary necessity and that there is a peak to how much weight someone loses, despite putting in more effort. As a very results-driven person, it seems it would be disappointing or discouraging to put in so much physical effort, but not see the intended results, or not see the results in the timeframe expected.
Its a good reasearch , but the thing is , to lose weight u need to burn calories more than u consume every day , and to lose weight your body metabolism need to be at top performance , everybody doesnt share the same metabolism
Chronic cardio does this. It’s why my body eats away at the muscles I work so hard to build whenever I add running into my weekly habits. This video doesn’t go into the differences between cardio and weight lifting and how weight lifting increases your metabolism and insulin sensitivity in the muscle cells. Basically it’s only only part of the picture.
Who ever worded this title is a mouth breather.
@@Dimitris_Balf Let us see your face, mouth breather. Until then you can say nothing about mine. I would also consider my chin to be one of my lesser attributes.
Very interesting! I guess at the extreme end of exercise you do burn more. For example, the power meter on a Tour de France rider's bike will tell you exactly how many watts were generated over a stage, second by second. These guys burn between 4 and 5 thousand calories in a stage (depending on the parcour). If they ate the recommended 2,500 calories a day, things would not go well! Perhaps, as alluded to in the piece, the best way to enable people to take more exercise is to build it into the daily commute. Walk and extra stop on the metro, walk instead of taking the bus. Cycling to work would be an excellent way to do it. We just need town planners to help there but bikes are quick, efficient and a fun way to get around. You can cycle in any weather, just get the right clothes!
Anything can be extreme and it can be done almost every day.
The main problem isn't that exorcise doesn't burn a lot of calories, but rather that you need to push yourself to fatigue in whatever you choose to do. A lot of people think following a formula (example being 3 sets of whatever with so many reps) is going to be all they need... but at the end of the day, only we know how our body is feeling during exorcising or working out.
There is a reason why running is still considered the fastest way to drop the pounds, and it is because anyone of any fitness level is going to use a huge amount of energy for simply jogging for 20 minutes straight, there just is no way around that. Instead of that, many people just choose to jog around the block once and think that a quick 2-4 minute run is going to make a difference despite feeling fine.
@@someone-ji2zb jogging is a very inefficient way to burn calories. 20 mins jogging you'd be lucky to burn 250 calories. you lose pounds in the kitchen. you get fitter and stronger on the track or in the gym
@@brin57 I don't disagree that a calorie deficit is the most important thing, but you can create a larger deficit through exercising, and that still includes jogging.
200~ calories for 20 minutes is a lot burned. If you decide to lift weights as well, you could easily burn another 200-300 calories in 30-40 min of working out so long as you are fatiguing your muscles.
Considering it is recommended that we have a daily deficit of 500 calories... that means around an hour of exercise alone can either allow you to maintain or create an even larger deficit.
What is your idea of 'efficient'? There isn't much that will do much more than that frankly.
Cycling is leaps and bounds better for weight loss than jogging as it is far more forgiving on the joints thereby allowing you to go longer and faster before the body gives out.
That last bit where he says you need access to a gym 😂 is nonsense and he knows it .
It also depends on what your starting condition is ... if you just start doing exercise you will initially burn a lot of calories for like 3-4 months or so before your body adapts ... also it depends on the body fat percentage you start with ... if you have more than 20-25% body fat most bodies will just easily give it up without trying to balance it by "spending less on other things" ... but even if you are well trained and are around 12-18% body fat, you still will burn more calories if you exercise than if you don't.
The comparison with the Hadzna ppl is faulty because: They do have a higher caloric intake than the average american (about 250 kcal), while being significantly less tall and less heavy ... taking this into account they probably require about 400-750 kcal more than an inactive american (of the same size and body composition) -> which is about what you would expect from an active day (lots of walking and light-medium physical labour) ... (also I doubt that they are that active, hunting involves a lot of waiting, and gathering is not that physically exhausting -> you probably stay in a low heartrate zone most of the time -> did they really measure their activity or was it just a personal impression? -> is that study publicly available?)
I'm not sure why researchers would find the result of energy expenditure so surprising. The fitter you are, the more efficient your body becomes. You have a lower resting and exercise heart rates, you have a better proportion of muscle mass to "excess" weight etc., etc. You become more energy efficient in general. Furthermore, you don't have to be an elite athlete, a hunter-gatherer, or a manual labourer to know what the brain and body wants to do after serious and/or sustained exertion. Rest and recuperate.
By the time you get to the point where you are an athletic monster, you likely have little to no weight left to lose anyway.
Either way, if 50 push ups don't do it anymore, then control your reps to stop half way, hang for a few seconds, then continue rep. If jogging for 30 minutes is effortless, then incorporate short sprint bursts every so often to make it much harder. Can you hold a plank for 8 minutes? Then lift one leg and alternate legs and see if even 3 minutes is possible.
Point being, while our bodies adapt, there are always simple solutions to challenge our bodies. And if by some unlikely chance this doesn't apply to someone, then they are in no need of weight loss.
@@someone-ji2zb The point of my post is not to say exercising is futile. The point is in the first sentence: "I'm not sure why researchers would find the result of energy expenditure so surprising." Everything that follows illustrates my surprise at their surprise by pointing to factors that one would expect researches to already have in mind prior to collecting data.
I still doubt those findings are correct. Because it does not add up when you count calories in versus calories out. It goes against other important evidences, considere the fact that when a human increases his or her activity WITHOUT modifying diet, THAT alone produces weightloss. I would revise and verify the methods used to come to the conclusion presented here.
The body isn't a perfect mechanical system. You can't say that if you lift a 1kg weight up 1 meter, you burn exactly 0.098 Kcal and can eat another 2 m&m's. People are also built differently. Someone who walks and digs for tubers all day will have a body that's massively more effective than someone who sits at their desk all day. We also don't necessarily use all the energy we consume. Take a look at your poop, there's a ton of unused calories in there, even stuff like whole grains and seeds. It seems like a waste, but maybe you get enough food that there's no point in breaking it all down. If you ate a diet of meat and tubers and walked all day every day, you'd poop a lot less.
Go read "Why we get fat".
Actually I pooped more when i do longer walks and exercise the day before.
@@agentblue52 I experience the same, already having staged huge trombone concerts after having sprinted intensively, several times. Nevertheless, I'm hardly ever moving outside all day. Starseed-bb still may be right even concerning this detail, to say nothing of the great value of his other considerations.
@@JohnPorsbjerg if you lift 1kg up for 1 meter you’ll burn more than 9.8 joules. 9.8J is the mechanical work necessary to pull that off, your body needs to turn chemical energy to
mechanical one. On top of that, more energy is needed for other muscles to stabilize your body. If I recall correctly chemical to mechanical conversion of energy is of about 20% or 25%. So you could even say that you’re burning a minimum of 4 to 5 times 9.8J for moving 1kg for 1m
It’s interesting what your body does when exposed to prolonged cardio (running). Your ROI dramatically drops after 25 minutes. Which is why high intensity short cardio is so effective.
Putting on muscle is perhaps the most effective method. You basically burning calories all day. Even when you sleep. Lifting heavy and less reps actually contributed to the most amount of fat loss for me. I’m 40
I watch him say sitting is the new smoking while I'm sitting and smoking
neat through low mod exercise levels
If you want to lose weight , just make sure you eat less calories, than you use, by food intake, and exercise.
It’s up to persons will power at the end of the day, but we live in a world, where it is never the persons fault !
I totally agree my friend...it's about nutrition 85% and exercise 15%...
@@edwardbisono6714 I have never heard that percent break down, please send us the link.
Thank you for your reply.
Unfortunately most people can't do it and obesity is increasing every year. A lot of people have given up and believe it's impossible, blaming hormones/metabolism. I think it's just a mental block, if you really want to do it you will. If I paid someone £1000 for each calorie they lost, they would soon lose weight.
What a shock.
A fit person can do more things with less effort than a fat person.
News at ten.
3 days strength training & 3 days interval training/ cardio/ sports such as badminton & tennis a week for 3 years now.Became a habit, just don't feel right if I don't train 😎 deload week every quarter, doing it now, but still do calisthenics & bodyweight interval training.
Other times just walking or do greasing the groove bodyweight workout such as pushups/ body rows, dips/ pullups, squats & lunges
I'm tempted to pause this video to go get a snack.
It’s amazing how our bodies adapt to everything we put them through.
Without science and technology, our adaption is fairly limited.
@@mrlaydback11 elaboration?
Including prison?
Walking is extremely efficient and burns almost no more energy than sitting. When I was training for a 100km walk (and doing the walk) my energy consumption and output didnt change. However when I was a competitive wrestler my energy consumption went from 7500 kilo jules a day to 10,000 kilo jules a day.
For people who are constantly eating one of the biggest benefits of exercise is that whilst exercising ..... youre not eating. Also, intense exercise reduces appetite. I think its because our body needs time to recover and it does not want to waste energy on digestion.
HEY MORONS: *diet causes the body to reduce muscle not fat*
exactly! We were designed to walk. It would still be very close to baseline metabolism. Even jogging produces little in the way of extra caloric burn.
To say that walking burns the same calories as sitting is ridiculous. It's also ridiculous to say that intense exercise reduces appetite. It's the opposite. What reality do you live in?
I live in a world where I have measure my calorie burn sitting and measurednit for walking 50km per day. As to the reduction in appetite. Maybe you have a special body that allows for high intesity training without the need for rest. Have uou ever done high intensity training?
The times when I lost weight and got fittest without that being my aim was when I went on a holiday with friends that involved long daily walks carrying rucksacks while not passing anywhere to eat during the days. The other time was when I got an internal thrush infection in my digestive system following a course of anti-biotics. Then eating pasta, or other carbs, or drinking milk would give me a horrible painful stinging sensation in my stomach so I could only eat little and slowly and gave up milk. I lost so much weight that I could not believe it. I thought I must have cancer, and when my thrush was cured I started eating to prove I could put weight back on and didn't have cancer. Big mistake. I put weight back on and then could not shake it off again, as there was no painful consequence to eating and my hunger came back.
You do NOT need money to exercise! Depending on where you live, a reasonable exercise mat and a small set of dumbbells will set you back less than $50 USD, and if you have a very sturdy door frame you can get a bar that will allow you to do pull-ups. There are thousands of videos on how to do an awesome workout with a towel. Take those and 3m2 (or yards if you prefer!) and reasonable ventilation (add a fan for comfort), and you have everything you need for a perfectly sculpted body.
Add another $100 USD every 6-9 months for good running shoes and all your cardio needs can be taken care of. If you live in the centre of a city it can mean a mile or so of nasty, car-filled stuff before getting to somewhere nicer but we all make choices. Or if you can't afford that then $10 USD for a skipping rope will do in a pinch.
You need a gym membership to socialize, and have people look at you, not get fit.
It’s illuminating to listen to the explanation from the perspective of evolutionary medicine. Thanks, BBC! ありがとう！
3:47
Is he saying that you cannot lose weight by exercising? Pretty sure you can. Confused.
Haha
This study was published in Scientific American magazine a few years back.
Well, this explains why I find exercising strictly for exercise sake soooo distasteful and difficult to maintain.
I’ve found that making exercise part of getting stuff done works for me, walking and biking whenever possible.
Of course, in the US, many places are dangerous or difficult to walk or bike anywhere, we’re so car-centric ☹️
excellent video, it's so true. For me this is why Keto was so groundbreaking. it was bringing my body back to how it was meant to work. no more feeling ravenous hungers pangs causing me to graze like a cow. smaller and fewer meals were easy to maintain once I was fat adapted. no more headaches and sleeping so much better!
HEY MORONS: *diet causes the body to reduce muscle not fat*
Walking is for free everywhere in the world, what for the money and gym membership... Just leave your car and walk.
Exactly right
Bad ending; you don't need fancy environments/equipment.
see this same on myself - work out daily - eat only twice and do not loose or gain weight. this is the case since years