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I dislike this article. 1 hour of intense exercise does account for approximately 500-700 active calories, which increases your daily caloric budget by 36% at
by wredue 3y ago
I dislike this article.
1 hour of intense exercise does account for approximately 500-700 active calories, which increases your daily caloric budget by 36% at the higher end.
All that matters for weight loss is that you burn more calories than you consume, and expanding your daily budget will certainly help that.
What most people need to start doing is actually counting their calories. Staring 600 calories in the face of your Starbucks coffee might get some people to think twice.
- lemming 3y agoI agree about calorie counting, I think it's a valuable tool, and I recommend it to everyone who's interested in losing weight. I don't do it all the time because it's a pain in the ass, but I do it periodically when my weight starts going up for whatever reason. It really clearly illustrates how little idea you have of what you're putting in your mouth if you don't do it. I'll disagree on the article, though. I thought it did a great job of illustrating why the "extra calories due to the exercise I did" argument is too simplistic. Compensatory behaviours, metabolic compensation, and all the rest mean that the calories out part of the equation is much more complicated than the standard linear model would suggest. I use MacroFactor when I'm tracking which automatically adjusts my calorie budget based on my food intake and weight movement, and it's astonishing how little difference exercise makes.