"I'll just burn more calories"

How many times have you found yourself say this?

A day/night of too much self indulgence and you take to the treadmill and run and run and run until YES 500 calories!!

So who cares what you ate and drank the night before. Well, YOU should care!

Exercise physiologists have long said there is little in the workout world that is more overly exaggerated then most people's estimates of how many calories they burn.

There are a few other key "calorie counting" tools that are more inaccurate in there calculations. Yet, most people can still be found believing everything their special "counters" tell them.

Take a look at these few calorie counting tools and why they are a poor assessment of the correct number of calories that you have burnt.

1. The Display on your Cardio Machine: They entice you with their precise-looking calorie counters that continue to tabulate as you go. Look despite the official looking charts and calculations it is impossible to accurately estimate the number of calories you burn.

2. The Beloved Heart Rate Monitor: Very simple hear, researchers have shown heart rate does not calculate easily into calories. So don't burn 900 calories according to your monitor and reward yourself with MORE food!

Calorie counting skepticism has its many faults.

ONE: two individuals of the same age, gender, height, weight and even the same fitness level can burn a different amount of calories at the same exertion level.

TWO: Familiarity, the more familiar you are with an exercise the fewer calories your body will burn at the same level of effort.

THREE: Even the "experts" who created your cardio machine don't know the answer. Leading fitness equipment retailer Precor cautions that their machines are not suppose to give the exact calories burnt but instead a estimation of the calories an "average person" would burn at the given work level. Do you know what the "average person" looks like, well neither do they.

Get over the calorie counting madness that you are surrounded by. Avoid it and use the REAL tools to help you shed unwanted body fat.

1. EAT WHOLE NATURAL FOODS: Lean proteins, fruits and veggies. Avoid "empty calories" and you know what I am talking about there. Avoid breads, processed foods, pasta and soy, yes soy, a topic for another day ;)

2. FOLLOW A INTENSE RESISTANCE TRAINING PROGRAM: No, heavier resistance is NOT going to make you "bulk up." It will boost your metabolism for 24-48 hours POST workout and help sculpt your body into a lean mean fat burning machine.

3. INTERVAL CARDIO: Whether you do short burst cardio, intervals, or bodyweight intervals. Avoid steady state cardio and maximize your effort while minimizing the duration spent exercising.

Stop counting and start moving more intensely. Burning more is not always your best way to more more belly fat. Turn your body into a metabolic furnace that melts the fat away in record time.

Here is a quote to replace burning more calories.

"Do more, in less time!"

Now go do it!

Dedicated to your fitness success,

Tyler English, NASM-PES, CPT

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