Physical Activity Vs Exercise.
i want to talk to you today about the difference and similarities between exercise and physical activity one thingbto know about exercise exercise is really important in keeping off weight it's not a huge component of losing weight if you want to lose say two pounds a week the question is how much would you need to walk to lose two pounds of fat each mile that you walk or run burns approximately 100 calories to burn a pound of fat you have to accumulate 4 500 calories of deficit of basically extra burn in order to burn a pound of fat so ifnyou want to lose 2 pounds you'd have to burn 9000 calories which in order to run or walk you'd have to walk 90 miles to burn two pounds of fat so it's very very difficult to do additionally once you start exercising that amount you tend to get really hungry so it's very very difficult to lose weight through exercise alone that's why we say most of weight loss comes from what you eat and far less from physical activity there are many.
Benefits of Exercise
other benefits to exercise including heart health lower blood pressure lower diabetes lower risk of strokes so exercise is really a critical component for overall health also people who exercise sleep better there's two kinds of exercise.
Cardiovascular Exercise
one is intentional exercise and that is exercise that you have planned to do and that may include cardiovascular exercise is one type cardiovascular exercise is where you're getting your heart rate up you're continually moving but kind of at a low level so types of cardiovascular exercise would be running cycling elliptical machine that is something that will get your heart rate up and keep your heart rate up for for a period of time people tend to exercise for 10 minutes they may do it for an hour they may do it for two hours the other type of exercise is weight training and weight training involves using your muscles to a high intensity and then typically fatiguing if you're doing pilates if you're doing resistance bands lifting weights those are types of resistance exercise and the difference between cardio which leads to lean muscles versus high intensity weight training that will lead to more bulking up larger muscles now the interesting thing.
Weight Training
between the two is that cardiovascular exercise burns a lot of calories while you're exercising resistance and weight training on the other hand you tend to burn caloriesbafter exercise as your muscles are remodeling and rebuilding i talked about intentional exercise then.
Non intentional Exercise
there's also non-intentional exercise this is just the exercise that we do the movement during the day that we do that has nothing to do with a plan so when you park your car in the parking lot and you walk into into the office or into yourbgrocery store into your home that is non-intentional exercise when you're walking the dog that may be non-intentional exercise it's movement that may not necessarily be planned from a health standpoint it really doesn't matter whether you choose to exercise have a plan or whether you make it part of your day at the end of the day both are good for your health.
now what is the difference between exercise and physical activity well truly they're the same all exercise is physical activity and all physical activity is exercise and they're both great for you question is which is better cardiovascular exercise or resistance exercise and the truth is both are great for you and it doesn't matter which one you do the best type of exercise is the one that you're willing to do and can continue doing.
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