Can fitness in the gym help you lose weight?

The answer is yes, but it really doesn’t mean that if you get the card and swing it twice in the gym, it will automatically fall off the scale. If you don’t step on the right trap, it is normal for three months of practice to have no effect.

Many people complain that weight loss in the gym is an IQ tax. There was a girl in the store I used to go to. She pedaled a spinning bike for 40 minutes every night and sweated through two quick-drying clothes. After class, she turned around and went to the barbecue restaurant downstairs to have skewers with iced Coke. She didn't lose a pound of weight after eating for two months. In turn, she scolded the gym for being useless. Who do you think you can blame for this?

You can't just rely on hunger. When I was helping a friend to refer to the weight loss plan last year, I met a young man who ate very strictly. He added boiled vegetables and brown rice every day and didn't touch anything sweet. He only went to the gym to do aerobics and ran 5 kilometers every day. After running for a month, he lost 7 pounds. After that, he was stuck for almost three weeks. After eating two more mouthfuls of rice noodles, he gained back 3 pounds. He was almost emo. In fact, you have lost a lot of muscle through pure aerobics, and your basal metabolism has dropped. To put it bluntly, you consume fewer calories by lying down and doing nothing every day. Of course, it will be difficult to lose weight in the future, and it is easy to regain weight.

When I was cleaning up my body fat last year, I went to the gym four times a week, squatted in the strength zone twice to do shoulder, back and leg exercises, and did aerobics twice for 40 minutes. I didn’t treat myself too hard when I was eating. I just changed the usual white rice to half brown rice, and changed the milk tea from three cups a week to once every two weeks. In two months, I only lost 3 pounds, but I lost 4 points of body fat, and my waist circumference was 6 centimeters smaller. When my friends saw me, they all asked me if I had secretly lost ten pounds. After all, the density of muscle is more than three times that of fat. Muscle and fat of the same weight are there, and the volume of fat can be three times larger than that of muscle. It is really not necessary to just focus on the weight number. Only when the circumference is smaller and the clothes are looser are you really slimming down.

Of course, some people say that I can lose weight by following videos at home or running in the park, so why do I have to go to the gym? This is true. The gym has never been a necessary condition for losing weight. Its advantages are that it has complete equipment to facilitate you to do strength training, and the atmosphere makes it easier for you to persist. If you have enough self-discipline, you can lose weight wherever you train.

If you really plan to rely on the gym to lose weight, don't just rush to the weight or run to death. Find a reliable coach to take three or four classes at the beginning to figure out the essentials of the movements. It is much better than fumbling around for half a year and injuring your knees and waist. As for those who ask you to buy dozens of classes to ensure you lose twenty pounds, take a detour as soon as possible. There is no guarantee when it comes to losing weight. In the end, it still depends on whether you can persist.