Wellness coaching: stop jogging and start running

Wellness Training: Resistance Exercise Leads to Weight Gain

Exercise is extremely important for metabolism, weight control, and most of all, health and well-being. Improves the regulation of insulin and leptin. But exercise can’t make up for a nutrient-deficient, starch-based diet. I exercise every day and recommend my clients to do the same. However, long-distance exercise, which requires a lot of time and endurance over time, will actually contribute to weight gain, rather than weight loss.

What do you think your body does to compensate for the message you’re sending when you spend an hour a day on the treadmill or in an aerobics class? Sure, you’ll burn fat, but in the long run, what you’re really doing is training your body to be as efficient as possible at making fat more available for burning. So what does your body’s intelligence do to counteract this onslaught of ridiculously unnecessary resistance exercises, day after day, week after week, month after month? Well, it will increase your ability to convert every calorie in the food you eat directly into fat. Why? Because from an evolutionary standpoint, you’re telling your body that you’re going to continue to burn as many calories as you can for as long as you can, and then your body responds by doing everything in its power to compensate for this “emergency famine.” “.

And contrary to popular opinion, running for an hour or more a day does not improve cardiovascular health. Marathon runner, fitness guru and daily jogger Jim Fixx has died of a heart attack at the premature age of 52. Many other endurance athletes have also died prematurely of heart attacks since the advent of the jogging and aerobics fad. The human body is simply not made to be pushed to the limit and pushed to its extreme limits on an ongoing basis. Not only is this a complete waste of time, but you’re doing more harm than good.

In her best-selling book, “Primal Body Primal Mind,” nutritional therapist Nora Gedgaudas debunks the point of view of aerobic fitness experts, saying, “God forbid you fall off your exercise wagon. You’ll quickly get everything back.” you’ve lost (and then some) as your body’s energy reserves prepare for the next marathon.”

Also, when you look at nature, guess how many animals spend a significant part of their day exerting all their energy? That’s how it is. None. This is because evolution selects for species that are most efficient in conserving energy, not in consuming energy. The cheetah, for example, can only run at its top speed of 70 miles per hour in very brief bouts.

So when it comes to exercise, remember that less is always more. Instead of jogging for an hour, switch to running as fast as you can for just twenty minutes. Instead of spending an hour in an aerobics or spin class, get on the treadmill for twenty minutes and run as fast as you can. These brief bouts of increased intensity of exertion and maximization of heart rate will serve to dramatically increase your oxygen consumption, expand the capacity of your heart and lungs, and rapidly burn up blood sugar and glycogen stores. Subsequently, as your insulin levels normalize, your body’s ability to burn fat increases, without alarming the body that a famine is coming. In this way, the body becomes an efficient fat-burning machine, not an efficient fat-storing machine. It’s about balance.