The logic is pretty simple: To lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you consume each day by eating less, increasing your general activity levels, and/or working out. But recent research is questioning the idea that burning calories by exercising can help you lose weight—-even suggesting that it can lead to fat gain.
Whether you hit up the gym on the regular or are thinking about ramping up your exercise efforts to shed pounds, we delved into this research and previous studies on the subject to see if working out can possibly do more harm than good when youre trying to lose weight.
How Burning Calories Might Lead to Weight Gain? It sounds so counter-intuitive that torching extra calories each day could ever be correlated to fat gain, but that’s exactly what a new study published in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research is claiming. Previous research examining exercises impact on weight loss also suggests that burning calories in the gym isn’t as helpful for weight loss as you would think…….
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