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Another Link on Exercise and Fitness

We are always on the look-out for good sources of information on exercise that we can share with you. While researching information on exercise, we discovered Scientifc American's Exercise and Fitness Website. We are not sure of the relevancy of this site, but here it is: http://www.scientificamerican.com/topic.cfm?id=exercise-and-fitness.

Has anyone visited this site before? if so, what are your thoughts and/or opinion? Please share...

Muscles Burn More Calories than Fat

Muscles burn on calories than fat at both exercise and at rest. It is said that muscles elevates your resting metabolic rate from 37-50 calories per day. So, if your normal resting metabolic rate is 1400 calories, adding a pound of muscle will increase that resting metabolic rate to say 1437 calories per day; that is calories burned per day. Thus, in addition to restricting caloric intake and increaseing activity and exercise levels, strength training that increases muscle mass, should be incorporated.

Caloric Consumption vs. Caloric Burn

Total metabolic rate is the sum total rate of metabolic resting rate, metabolic activity rate and metabolic exercise rate. It is the total amount of calories burned in say a single day. This is also known as total energy expenditure.

• Metabolic Resting Rate is said to be the rate at which the body burns calories while the body is at rest. Click on the link to estimate what your metabolic resting rate is (Metabolic Rate Estimator).
• Metabolic Activity Rate is the rate at which the body burns calories due to simple daily activities like eating, walking, typing, putting on clothes.
• Metabolic Exercise Rate is the rate at which the body burns calories because of exercise. This is where the most potential energy can be burned to aid in weight loss.

Caloric consumption or energy consumption is the total amount of calories consumed say in a single day. This is contrasted by the total metabolic rate (i.e., energy expenditure rate) .

Energy Balance (i.e. caloric balance) refers to the relationship between caloric consumption and caloric expenditure (caloric consumption and metabolic burn rate). Consider the three possible energy or caloric balance equations.

1. When consumption is equal to expenditure, there is no weight gain.
2. When consumption is greater than expenditure, there is weight gain.
3. When consumption is less than expenditure or when expenditure is greater than consumption, there is weight loss.
   

Thus, the key to any successful, sustained weight loss program is to create a caloric deficit, where more calories are burned than what is consumed.

Losing Fat

To burn 1 pound of fat, you have to burn 3500 calories.

What does this mean for you?

If you work out 7 days a week, you will need to burn 500 a day to lose 1 pound a fat for that week. If you work out 5 days a week, y0u need to burn 700 calories a day. If you work out 3 days a week, you will need to burn around 1166 calories per day.

Which activities burn the most calories?

Check out this caloric calculator found at Lowfatlifestyle.com.