Is Diet The Key to Burning Body Fat or Is Exercise the Answer
diet, exercise, cardio, hiit, lose body fat
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So when it comes to losing unwanted body fat, is diet or exercise more important? If you were to ask me 20 years ago, I would have told you that exercise was the key to a sexy body. While exercise is important, I think the real key to burning body fat and looking great is the result of a clean diet. If people ate properly, there would be many more toned people in gyms all over the world.
The Best "One Two" Weight Loss Combo is Both Diet and Exercise
Everyone knows that exercise along with a good diet is a great approach to losing weight. The challenge with exercising is that often times life gets busy. There isn't always time to exercise, but you always have time for a proper diet. My suggestion is to keep your diet clean at all times, and exercise when time allows.
"You Can't Out-Exercise a Big Mac"
A Big Mac has 540 calories. Do you realize how much exercising it takes to burn those calories? Well about an hour on the elliptical trainer at a moderate pace would do the trick! So after an hour of boring cardio, you are back to square one. You probably won't lose weight at all especially if you added the fries and soft drink. Large fries would be an extra 570 calories and a large non-diet soft drink would be an extra 310 calories. So how much exercise would you have to do to burn 1,400+ calories? Let's not even go there!
It Is Much Easier to Create A Large Calorie Deficit With a Clean Diet
A simple approach to losing weight is to create a daily calorie deficit. Basically, the idea is for your body to use more calories each day than what you consume in food calories. So, there are two ways to create this deficit; either consume less calories or burn more through exercising. Each pound of fat on your body is 3,500 calories. So to lose 2 pounds per week, you need to create a weekly calorie deficit of 7,000or a daily calorie deficit of 1,000. In my opinion it is much easier to create this calor... read entire entry
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on 2/26/2008
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Lose Fat Quickly and Get In Shape, You Will
yoda, hiit, interval training, high intensity
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Do you remember that scene from Empire Strikes Back where Luke Skywalker is "trying" to get his X-Wing Fighter out of the water by using the force? Well if you are not as geeky as me, here is what happens...
Here is the link from You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-zD-RohzNY
He says he will give it "Okay, I'll give it a try"
Yoda says "Do Or Do Not…There Is No Try!"
Luke fails to pull his X-wing craft out of the water and Yoda shows him how it is done. Luke is absolutely blown away that Yoda could use the Force to pull such a big object out of the water.
Luke then says, "I don't...I don't believe it!"
Yoda replies back, "That is why you fail"
This scene has actually been life changing for me. It is a big reason that Empire Strikes Back is one of my favorite movies of all time. When you are "trying" to reach you fitness goal or any goal for that matter, remember what Yoda said..."Do or Do not...There is no Try!". If you are "trying" to reach a goal there is a good chance you won't reach it. Just write down your goal and do what it takes to reach that goal. You will accomplish a lot more in life...including your goal of getting a smoking hot bod!
I hope this makes sense, because it makes all the difference in the world in my opinion.
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on 2/6/2008
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