You know exercise is important but you don’t fully understand the impact. Read on for mind-blowing facts about exercise, fitness and working out.
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- You need to burn about 3500 calories to lose 1 pound of fat.
- The average person can store 500 grams of glycogen.
- You burn more calories during the 23 hours you don’t exercise than the 1 hour you do.
- You’re never too old to do squats.
- Weight loss is not a physical challenge– it’s a mental one.
- You can eat anything you want and still lose weight – but weight doesn’t always equal fat.
- Zero grams of fat on a label doesn’t always mean there’s no fat in the food product. Always check the ingredients.
- Just because a box says “whole grain” on it, it doesn’t make it healthy.
- Workout times and negative side effects are positively correlated. The quality of your workouts is more important than the quantity.
- Cooking your food can both lower some nutrient content, and make some more bio-available.
- Eating at night does not make you fat – overeating does.
- 90% of people **underestimate** how many calories they need to eat to lose weight. Use mycalorie calculator to determine the correct calorie intake for fat loss.
- There are 3 types of skeletal muscle fibers – type I, type II-A, and type II-B.
- 80% of people who begin an exercise program will quit. About the same goes for people starting a diet.
- Dehydrating a muscle by 3% can cause a 10% loss of strength. Drink plenty of water throughout the day.
- Lactic acid is not the cause of delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). Lactic acid returns to normal levels within 60 minutes of finishing exercise.
- The more muscle mass you have, the more calories you burn at rest. Muscle tissue eats fat at all hours of the day.
- The thermic effect of food (TEF) is highest for protein. Up to 30% of its calories are used for digestion and assimilation.
- The body has 3 energy systems – ATP-PC, anaerobic glycolysis, and aerobic.
- Healthy levels of testosterone are good for both men *and* women.
