There may be some truth to this. While it's good for your heart, and to fight disease, exercise also increases your energy expenditure- which causes you to eat more. It's more important that we move during the day in general: take stairs, park in the furthest parking spot, walk when you can. Also we need to watch waht we eat. Calorie consumption is important when trying to lose weight- so avoid the muffins and the cookies and the cakes. It can add up fast. Stick with veggies, fruit, fish, poultry, whole grains and low fat dairy.
What do you think? Is exercise that important for weight gain, especially streuous exercise that isn't really fun for anyone? Perhaps just some weight training and yoga in addition to walking with friends or the dog, going for social bike rides, window shopping at the mall for a few hours, or playing with kids would be better for all of us. So get up, get moving, and just avoid the junk food :)
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I think another thing is people who weight lift as a weight loss exercise. It's true that you gain more strength and energy from having stronger muscles but people with larger muscles require a lot more food and as we all know muscle weighs more than fat. If you're really going for PURE weight loss, skip the weights and stick to push ups, pull ups, and various forms of cardio to keep your body guessing and avoid that plateau affect. ex. Row machines, cycling,the eliptical.
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