Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we're

going to talk about how much activity will contribute to your overall energy

expenditure or your metabolism before you start to hit a plateau. I am often talking about how

burning more calories from activity doesn't necessarily increase your

overall deficit because of something called the constrained total energy

expenditure model which I'll explain here in a moment. But I wanted to talk about how much

activity you need to reach that plateau because I do think it's a good goal to get to that plateau in general

when you can because it indicates just an overall active lifestyle. I often talk about

how I don't recommend to focus on burning calories in your workouts, but I also

think it's important to stay overall active.

I'm not saying that you should just be stationary and that calories don't matter at all because they do and

being active does matter.

I don't recommend just like doing your EFLO workout and then sitting and being stationary

for the rest of the day.

So in this podcast, I'll explain how we burn calories.

I'll go over that activity plateau, so how much activity you do

before your body tends to plateau. I'll give some examples of

activities for me personally in which I've hit that plateau and I'll give some

examples that we pulled from Payton as well. We'll go over why I don't recommend trying to burn all of your calories for the day in one consolidated session.

Then we'll discuss what happens if you go above that plateau, that activity plateau,

and when it can start to become problematic.

So hopefully this podcast answers a lot of your questions today.

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