http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/07/07/fatness-inactivity-earlybird.html?ref=rss
I thought everyone should read this story. This is a message that we have been relentlessly putting out since we opened 5 years ago. I am happy to see this in mainstream media. Hopefully it will help impact our approach to fat loss. Activity is a very poor and inefficient way to reduce body fat despite popular opinion. The obesity epidemic is still at epic proportions, despite decades of promoting MORE and MORE activity. When will we realize that IT’S NOT WORKING!?!
While this particular study focused on childhood obesity, the plan of action remains the same for adults as well. If you are serious about reducing body fat, your focus needs to be primarily on your nutrition. Rather than jumping from one type of exercise to the next and looking for the one method that will finally work, make changes to your nutrition instead. If what you’re doing now isn’t working, you need to change something, no matter how well you think you are eating. And if that change doesn’t do it, change something else.
You can, in fact, become quite lean with no exercise at all. None. That’s how much of a role exercise vs. nutrition plays in achieving this goal. However, the exercise you choose should be something anaerobic, or very effortful In order to engage the type II muscle fibers and prevent loss of lean tissue while you are losing body fat. This would include things like sprinting, rock climbing, and wrestling; however, the safest and most effective way is, of course, a proper strength training program.
Remember: You can’t outrun the fork.
