Walking

Walking is genuinely THE best form of cardio/exercise. Not running. Not cycling. Not rowing. Not crossfittting. Just going for a 30 minute walk will do wonders for your body long term. (and prevent lotsssss of unnecessary injuries unlike all of the other forms mentioned above).

Let's discuss below....  

Anytime someone wants to lose weight, get in better shape or something like those two things mentioned...the dreaded word cardio alwaysssssss comes up. Cardio (to most people) means anything that will elevate your heart rate for an extended period of time. Now, when I mention to my clients that you don't need "cardio" per say, but just to move your body and go for a walk everyday, the look I get is like they just saw a ghost. "What?! What do you mean only go for a walk?! That's not a workout. I need to go run 5 miles to burn all this fat!!"....turns out, no ya don't. Most people don't get past 2,000 steps per day. That's real bad. Our bodies were meant to move. Meant to walk places. But...these days...a lot of people have their butt on a seat most of the time..and that's real bad. When we move our bodies without the intent of exercising, thats called NEAT. NEAT stands for Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis. Thats a real fancy word for a real simple meaning. In a nutshell, NEAT is/are alllllll the calories a person burns throughout the day without purposeful exercise thrown in. Yup, your body burns calories even when you're not exercising. Even when you are just laying there, motionless. SHOCKING...I know. But most people don't and think they need to do 46282739 hours of cardio a week to burn calories. Which could not be FURTHER from the truth. NEAT is where you will burn the bulk of your calories, not exercising, sorry to tell ya that one.

SO! Whats all that mumbo jumbo up top mean Nick?! It means you don't need to do all of that cardio you think you need to do to burn those extra calories or extra fat. Cardio actually doesn't even burn THAT much calories or fat. Fat is burned and exhaled throughout the day (little more complicated than that, but you get the gist of it) and like we said above, most of your calories burned throughout the day come from NEAT, not cardio. 

What we need to do as a society is build more muscle so that our NEAT will eat up more calories throughout the day. The more muscle one has on their body, the more calories they will burn by walking around. So building muscle is real important. Walks are real important. And that nutrition piece is real important. Cardio....ehh, just go for a walk 😁😁

Reach out to me for more info on cardio...I know you'll have questions and I'm here to help ya out🙂!