So if I eat a bread while I’m taking the stairs, I’m even?
You may have to sprinkle chocolate chips on the bread first.
Not sure what bread or chocolate chips you are eating, but this isn’t even remotely true
The takeaway here is that calorie management is WAY easier on the eating/drinking side of the equation.
Calories out just need to exceed calories in. Diets help do that easier but it’s all the same principle
Keep in mind that the more muscle you build, the more energy it takes to move that muscle therefore the more calories you’ll burn during your activities through the day. It’s not necessarily about the calories you burn during the workout but the aggregate impact downstream.
I could be wrong though I don’t go to the gym lol.
What you learn quickly is that the effects of calorie burning are real but way less than what people think. You can go destroy yourself running to the point you’re half dead and that’s gonna burn like 300 calories (like, one protein bar).
But yes on topic of the gym there’s a few downstream effects, the bigger you get the more you eat to be on equilibrium. Also strength workouts keep your muscles “activated” for up to 48h during which you also burn a bit more calories at rest.
And finally of course there’s the whole bulking/cutting thing, the basics is that basically, no matter how much you lift you’re not gonna grow muscle unless you also have a calorie surplus in particular protein. During this process it’s unavoidable to also put on fat so you bulk for a while (eat a lot+ workout a lot and improve personal records) then you cut (eat at deficit, maintenance workouts) so the fat recedes and etc.
Yep, absolutely. When people start exercising and find out how few calories they’ve actually burned, the solution is always simple. It’s much easier to limit the intake than burn it off later.
A typical hamburger is about 500 kcal so you would have to go up those stairs 100 times to burn it off in theory.
But science is now saying that burning off calories isn’t related to excersise… you burn the same amount doing or not doing physical activity. So I don’t know if this is relevant anymore.
That’s very very simplified version of it.
The more you do an exercise, the more efficient your body becomes for it.
So a person who runs 10km every day still burns approximately the same amount of calories as a sofa potato running only to toilet and fridge.
BUT if you do heavier exercises than your regular, you’re going to be burning more calories than your average daily ~1800-2000kcal
Nice. When I’m at the top I can treat myself to a shot of alcohol-free beer!
Or an M&MAre these numbers even remotely correct?
I found this study which would suggest it’s ballpark correct, depending on your weight and what you’re carrying
