How Does Exercise Help Quicken Weight Loss?
September 12th, 2009 | 
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I read this article saying if I eat right and walk a lot everyday I can lose 10 pounds in 5 weeks, but in order to just cut back on calories I’d have to have to cut back 1000 calories to reach that goal which is next to starving. How is it that exercising while cutting back only slightly on calories speeds up the process of weight loss? And also how come only some workouts say they help to lose weight?
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Exercise, in addition to burning calories, also builds muscle. Strength training or weight-bearing exercise in particular, builds muscle mass. Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue even when you’re at rest, so adding muscle helps elevate your metabolism so you burn more calories throughout the day. If you’re afraid to work out with weights because you don’t want to get big bulky “man muscles”, do more repetitions with less weight and you’ll get that long, lean dancer-like look.
Muscle tissue also takes up less volume than an equivalent weight of fat tissue, so as you add muscle and lose fat, you get slimmer looking even if the scale doesn’t initially show a lot of weight loss.
Any activity burns calories. Exercising burns calories AND boosts your metabolism, so you burn more calories when your body is in a state of rest.
Without exercise, weight loss is VERY difficult.
Exercise does a lot of things. Burning calories is only a side effect, however. You can lose weight by exercising, but it is because it changes the way your body processes food, not because it burns calories.
go to Mercola.com for the rest of the details.
first you shouldnt cut back to 1000 calories thats too little. second of all exercise bruns calories while you are exercisesing.
third exercise raises your metabolism at least for a few hours after you exercise which means your body uses more calories just ti function. then over time your metabolism will raise and you will need more calories to function. that is why you can eat more and still lose weight. hope this answers at least part of your question.