Time Magazine Article: Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin
August 15 2009
If you been an ardent reader of Exercise Biology, you would have been aware of this before your read the controversial article titled “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin” in the August issue of the Time magazine.
I had written an article titled ” Is Exercise or Cardio Exaggerated in Losing Weight” a few months back. And the August issue of the Time magazine talks exactly the same as the article I wrote.
The main points talked about in the article are:
1. People usually compensate for calories burned with exercise by moving less or eating more
2. Muscle burns only 6 -13 calories/kg/day. It’s not 150 kcal as most trainers say!
3. Exercise burns very less calories than what most people believe.
Conclusion
According to the article, it’s what you eat, not how hard you try to work it off, that matters more in losing weight.
