Author: johnbarban
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4 Adding Muscle Accelerates Fat loss – Answer
#4 – Adding muscle mass through weight training helps accelerate fat loss/weight loss Answer: FALSE An additional pound of skeletal muscle only burns an extra 5 calories per day. This is an insignificant amount of calories. It doesn’t matter how much muscle you think you can build, it will never add up to enough to…
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3 Cardio vs Weights For Long Term Fat Loss – Answer
#3 – Cardio type training is better than weight training for helping with long term fat loss Answer: FALSE Exercise in general doesn’t really do much of helping weight loss. Recent research shows that adding cardio type exercise to a weight loss diet doesn’t increase the weight loss results. Cardio or weight training doesn’t really…
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1 – You Can’t Lose Weight Without Exercise – Answer
#1 – You can’t lose weight without exercise. Answer: FALSE Weight loss is simply a matter of a caloric deficit. The easiest way to achieve a deficit is through caloric restriction (eating less food) There is good research to show that even when people add exercise to a low calorie diet they do not lose…
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2 Eating Below BMR Will Cause Muscle Loss – Answer
#2 – Eating below your daily metabolic rate of calories will cause you to lose muscle Answer: FALSE Unless you are severely calorie restricted for months on end there is virtually no danger of losing any significant amount of muscle mass. Most people in an industrialized modern society that are actually interested in losing some…
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Weight Loss Quiz Answers
Last week we did a short true/false weight loss quiz. This week I’m putting up the answers with video blog posts. Some of you commented that these questions were ambiguous or tricky. None of these questions were designed to be a trick or ambiguous. In fact I tried to make them as simple as possible.…