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Reducing body fat is the most popular reason for
exercising. However,
many myths abound about how best to lower the ratio of body fat.
At the end of the day, it really isn’t that complicated.
We eat food for energy, just like you
put fuel in your car. If you
want
it
to go
and go well, you will always keep your tank topped up high with
plenty of energy. For our body we call this energy calories (Kcal).
These calories are made up of different components such as carbohydrates,
proteins and fats. Each one of these different components has
a different job to do in our body - hence we need them all. However,
some of these components are needed more than the others, and
it is here that people tend to get very confused.
Calories
provide energy for our muscles to contract as we do our everyday
exercise. Sadly this is also
a problem. We don’t do enough everyday exercise. So if
we are consuming calories but our muscles aren’t being
asked to contract through exercise, where do the calories go?
Back to the car scenario.
Imagine you filled your petrol
tank up to the top but never drove very far that day and tried
to put the same amount of petrol into your tank again the next
day, What would happen? It would spill all over the ground.
Well, our bodies are more complex than
a car. Extra calories don’t spill onto the floor but are
stored in fat cells for latter use. We each store
body fat in different places. The most popular spot is the stomach,
buttocks, thighs,
and back of the arm for ladies. For men it’s mainly
the stomach.
So if we burn the same number of calories consumed,
does that mean we won’t
put any body fat on? Yes, because everything you are eating
is
being
used
up.
However, if we eat more calories
than what we expend it will be stored on our body as fat.
So to
reduce fat cells on our body we just need to expend or burn
them up through
exercise. It's that simple. If you want to improve, you've got
to move.
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