Physical exercise is one of the keys to a successful vacation and healthy weight loss, but it depends on duration AND distance.
- To make physical exercise effective against excess weight, you have to try to spend time on it and set yourself a goal.
- The time needed to obtain a result is at least 45 minutes, at least 3 times a week.
- Physical exercise and not sport, so as not to suffer the effects of excess.
We must reflect on the example of the story “Fat and Skinny Run the Marathon!”.
Weight loss: set a goal and equip yourself properly
Fat and Skinny have decided to run the Marathon… Skinny, who is very fit, runs it in less than four hours. Fat, who is panting, struggling and unable to run, will take more than 9 hours to complete the 42 kilometers…
The moral, or rather the morals, of this story? First, that it is totally stupid, and that Gros should never have done the Marathon, far too dangerous for an ill-prepared body! It is also likely that he will have given up before the finish line or that the broom truck will have shortened his suffering…
But what are the positive differences, from a medical point of view, between the two? First, that Lean will have taken less time. Of course, that’s obvious. But from an energy point of view, Fat will have used up the most calories. And will have lost the most weight, mainly fat.
So, in conclusion, to make physical exercise effective against excess weight, you have to try to spend time on it and set yourself a goal. But also add a certain form of performance so that it combines effectiveness and absence of danger. It is possible and even easy. Provided you have spent a few dozen euros on the purchase of a heart rate monitor, the Running application (or its equivalent) and some items of clothing equipment. Admit it, nothing is impossible.
Download an app that calculates and records basic performance
The time needed to achieve a result is at least 45 minutes, at least 3 times a week. The real advice would rather be “at least” 45 minutes a day, and as often as possible. Physical exercise and not sport, so as not to suffer the effects of excess.
It is difficult to appreciate the amount of effort made. You can very well “drag” yourself for a few kilometers and not get any benefit from it, either for your health or your weight. There is an unstoppable aid, an essential tool: the smartphone application designed to manage time and distance.
From the beginning of your physical efforts, download an application that will give you, every day, thanks to the GPS of your smartphone the distance traveled, the time, the average speed. At the same time, the program will compile the results, both on your phone and your computer. It will be your guide and the objective witness of your progress. Because if competition represents one of the dangers of practicing physical exercise in a group, everything changes when the opponent is yourself. Fighting against yourself every day, trying to do faster and further than the day before, or at least as well, is a goal that remains reasonable.
These applications are astonishingly precise. They will allow you to modulate and especially avoid the aches and pains of the first few days, which remain the main obstacle to harmonizing weight loss. Small problems: aches and pains in the back, and their remedies (anti-inflammatories and gastric protector, massage, hammam, sauna, swimming pool, etc.) are part of the journey to successful weight loss.
Some are paid; others are free. Take your pick!
