If You Rely on Cardio/Exercise to Lose Weight, You’re Going to Struggle

3 Reasons why you should not take the route of relying solely on exercise to lose weight

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Geez, it’s been a while since I last wrote something. Two and a half months, to be exact. To remind you that I exist, I wrote this post. So let me explain why you’ll struggle to hell and back if you rely on cardio/exercise to lose weight. Three reasons:

1. The amount of exercise required to create enough calorie deficit to lose substantial weight = ‘what-the-fugging-fugg’ amount

You don’t burn as many calories as you think during your workouts. To illustrate that, let’s use metabolic equivalents (METs). Off to Google. It says METs are a concept used in epidemiology to quantify physical activity intensity.

Your one-hour resting metabolic rate (RMR) counts as 1 MET. Every time you get up and move around, the MET number increases and you burn more calories. And although this system can be inaccurate for estimating activity energy expenditure in people of different sex, RMR, body composition, etc. it’ll do for our purpose.