Can working out in the gym help you lose weight?

The answer is really not an absolute "yes" or "no", it all depends on how you use the gym.

I have been going to the gym on and off for almost three years. I have seen people lose 30 pounds in three months, and I have also seen people gain weight after going to the gym more than a dozen times after applying for an annual membership. It really all happens. The programmer brother who worked with me last year weighed 192 pounds when he first came here and had moderate fatty liver disease. The doctor ordered him to control his weight. He strength trained four times a week and rode the elliptical machine for forty minutes after each training session. He replaced all takeaways with light meals with less salt and sugar, and gave up all milk tea and cola. After three months, he has shrunk, and his weight has dropped to 160. His fatty liver disease has become much lighter after a follow-up test. Do you think he can lose weight in the gym? It's definitely possible to leave him here.

But you have to ask me if a girl like me who hangs out at the gym for half an hour and then leaves can lose weight? I would most likely shake my head. Last year, my former colleague followed the trend and got a fitness card downstairs. Every time she went, she would take eight selfies in the mirror. After ten minutes of walking on the treadmill, she would complain that she was tired. She would squat in the rest area and show off a bottle of iced Coke before heading home. When she got home, she felt that she deserved a reward for exercising today, so she just ordered crayfish for a late-night snack. After two months, she weighed herself, and she actually gained two pounds. She also told people everywhere that the gym is an IQ tax. Do you think this is unfair?

Many people also say that "going to the gym to lift irons is not as useful as running and aerobics at home." I half agree and half disagree with this. If you go to the gym to paddle the whole way, do two exercises in each group and then take a ten-minute break to check your phone, the consumption is really not as good as doing serious aerobics for forty minutes at home. But if you train with high intensity, reach failure in each group during strength training, and still maintain low-intensity aerobic for half an hour after training, then in the long run it will not just be as simple as losing weight - after the muscle mass increases, the basal metabolism will increase accordingly. Even if you lie still, you will consume more calories in a day than before, and it will not be easy to rebound, and you can also develop tight lines, which are much better than the flabby state lost only through aerobics.

After all, the underlying logic of losing weight is always a calorie gap. The gym just provides you with a place where it is easier to consume and avoid detours. There is a fixed exercise atmosphere that can push you to move, and there are professional equipment that can help you practice parts that you cannot usually practice at home. If you are willing to spend some money to find a reliable coach, you can also avoid many misunderstandings in movements, so as not to hurt your knees and lumbar spine. But if you don't control the quality of your training and eat freely after training, you won't be able to lose weight even if you stay in the gym every day.

This matter is actually the same as buying a top-end oven. The oven itself is a good thing, with accurate temperature and full functions, but if you neither put the appropriate ingredients nor adjust the temperature and time as required, then you will definitely not be able to bake a delicious cake, right? None of the people around me who have lost weight by going to the gym have lost weight just by going to the gym. They all got the results they wanted by practicing hard after going there and controlling their mouths after going out.