I do hours of cardio for weight loss each day!
No matter how much I do, zero weight loss results.
Energy Balance
You can’t out move a poor diet no matter how much cardio for weight loss you do. Too much cardio in some cases can actually increase your appetite and oppose your weight loss efforts. You then go home and eat those calories back within minutes that took you hours to burn. 80% of your fat loss success or more comes from individualised nutrition targets and is a key reason that our affordable online Body Reach journey educates you on this topic.
Weight loss requires nutritional wit/
This way we know for sure, we are in a calorie deficit each day. Often times you can look at a plate and assume that because there is hardly anything on it that fat burning that day is a certainty. Another week/month/year goes by and no significant results. The issue is that certain foods deemed healthy, are packed with calories! When you start to track and weigh foods like sauces, nuts, seeds, olive oils, cheese, dark chocolate, avocados and peanut butter etc you soon realise that they pack a crazy amount of calories for their small and condensed sizes. To add insult to injury they don’t fill our tummies well nor our eyes (plates).
Calorie deficit
If you want to lose body fat, you require a sustainable calorie deficit which means your body must be slightly under fed in order to burn its fat stores. This is typically 500 to 1,000 calories per day beneath the amount of energy that maintains your body weight (maintenance calories). No weight gained and no weight lost. This is where you want to be for optimal health and performance.
Can you lose body fat when not tracking calories? yes but its much trickier and less versatile. Can you drop fat without doing traditional cardio for weight loss? Most certainly!
Hormones and metabolic rate
If you severely under eat or use shake diets, you run the risk of destabilising your metabolism and hormone profile. As well as dampen energy, dramatically increase hunger and slow down fat loss progress. The weight only ends up coming back and more when you start eating normally again. And to top it off you are still doing endless cardio for weight loss in vein.
Get witty on your nutritional targets and get off the cardio for weight loss bandwagon!
