176: Ted Ryce: Diet Versus Exercise – Which One Is Better For Burning Fat?
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Unless you've been living in the wilderness with no wi-fi access, then you know that diet and exercise are both critical for maintaining your wellbeing and waistline.
However, which one is better for burning fat--specifically belly fat?
In this episode, we'll dive into research on diet versus exercise for burning fat as well as the different types of fat and the drawbacks of using weight to measure your success. I'll also give you my personal perspective from 17 years of experience as a health & fitness professional.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of the Legendary Life Podcast, |
| 0:03.3 | Diet versus Exercise, which one is better for burning fat? |
| 0:08.8 | And unless you've been living in the wilderness |
| 0:10.7 | with no Wi-Fi access, then you know that both diet and exercise are critical |
| 0:17.2 | for maintaining your well-being as well as your waistline. |
| 0:21.8 | But although changes in body weight are used by most people to tell if their diet and workout program are working, visceral, |
| 0:30.0 | visceral, sorry, adipose tissue or VAT for short, is more relevant to your health and a stronger |
| 0:37.2 | predictor of disease and death. |
| 0:39.8 | And in case you haven't heard about visceral adipose tissue before, you're not alone. |
| 0:46.0 | Many people don't understand the distinctions between different types of fat. |
| 0:50.4 | In fact, there are actually quite a few types of fat, but here we're going to discuss the two that we're going to be concerned about for this episode. |
| 0:59.0 | Subcutaneous adipose tissue. What is that? The fat that is underneath your skin. at a |
| 1:04.3 | Pose tissue. What is that the fat that is underneath your skin if you grab your skin |
| 1:07.8 | around the place where you store the most fat and for me that would be my belly right so I grab my skin I can feel my |
| 1:15.8 | skin and I can feel the muscle underneath and I can feel in between my skin and my muscle there's some fat and unfortunately |
| 1:26.3 | there's a little bit more there for me today than I've had in my past because I've had to restructure my workouts and I'm actually doing a type of workout that isn't supposed to burn fat and build muscle as much as get me in shape to do specific exercises. |
| 1:47.0 | By the way, which is not what I do with my clients. |
| 1:49.7 | I have them on something different, but I'm trying to heal my injuries. So anyway, I know that was a bit of a |
| 1:55.3 | tangent there. So there's two types of fat, the subcutaneous adipose tissue that I just walked you through. |
| 2:01.5 | Then there's the visceral adipose tissue and that's the fat that surrounds your internal organs. |
| 2:08.0 | So again, if you touch your skin right around your belly and then you feel that fat in between it you |
| 2:16.0 | should be able to feel the muscle underneath especially if you make your |
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