Balancing Exercise for Health and Well-being: A Guide Beyond Weight Loss Goals

I don’t exercise for weight loss.

And also, b, if you want to, let’s call that your baseline, your exercise habits of building muscle, just maintaining your general health in order to burn calories. Beyond that, that is gonna typically be more time intensive.

I’m talking about if you already have your healthy habits establish, so your resistance training, full body, two to three times a week at a minimum following a progressive overload lifting program. And then what is also recommended for the CDC is 150 minutes of moderate intensity cardiovascular exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity exercise, cardio exercise, who should be jogging or a combo of those two. So you could see that if you’re doing full body resistance training couple times a week plus doing this cardiac, that, doing more beyond that. Plus a lot of people are getting their steps in general day to day movement, that is a lot of time, especially for people who maybe have full time jobs, have little ones to take care of and just other things that are important in life.