Ep. 480 - Q&A Caloric Expenditure and Exercise, Overcoming the All-or-Nothing Mindset & Finding Meal Inspiration and Variety
ESGfitness
Emma Storey-Gordon
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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00:52 Understanding Caloric Expenditure and Exercise Accuracy
06:42 Minimal Effective Dose for Strength and Muscle Building
11:27 Navigating Maintenance and Feelings of Restriction
18:18 The Importance of Recovery in Fitness
21:48 Overcoming the All-or-Nothing Mindset
27:51 Finding Meal Inspiration and Variety
34:15 Addressing Weight Training Challenges
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of ESG Fitness Podcast. I have Maddie with me today. How are you? I'm really good, thank you. How are you? I'm good. We're lapping up the sun. It's so nice. It's amazing. I feel like it's always really sunny when we podcast. Just have to... No, and it's so we have to be inside. But actually, I'm quite glad for the break of the sun. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. I mean, I've just shut all the windows in our flats. It's not noisy, but it's warm and |
| 0:29.2 | everything. Yeah. Yes, thank you for being in a little hot box for us. I also think we have to be |
| 0:37.1 | realistic with the fact that it's kind of better just to |
| 0:40.4 | like be inside, do your work and then go outside. |
| 0:43.4 | Because I think if you're trying to do work on your laptop in the blistering heat, |
| 0:46.5 | like realistically, you just don't really get very much time. |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, I agree. |
| 0:51.1 | Just be like really focused, short bursts of work and then go and enjoy it. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | And probably better for your skin to have like short bursts of sun as well. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, too. |
| 1:02.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.6 | Okay. |
| 1:04.4 | Should we get up on some questions? |
| 1:06.0 | Sure. |
| 1:07.5 | Okay. |
| 1:07.9 | First one is when I was working the land and going on a run, my Fitbit suggested I had burnt |
| 1:13.6 | 3,000 plus calories. I know that's wildly inaccurate, so curious what it would be in real terms. |
| 1:19.9 | P.S. Don't worry, I'm not going to eat the calories back. |
| 1:23.4 | So this was like kind of a half question. We were discussing it before we came on. |
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