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You can try EVLO now for two weeks free if you visit evelofitness.com. Welcome to Fitness Rewired on the Dr. Shannon

show, a nine episode capsule designed to close the gap between fitness culture and exercise

science so you can see higher return on your effort and finally feel like you're doing enough.

Many fitness beliefs come from marketing and tradition and don't align with current evidence.

When you learn the truth, you can rewire your thoughts around fitness.

That shift leads to higher quality actions, better results, and health you can actually sustain.

I'm your host, Shannon Ritchie.

Welcome to the show.

I want to start this episode by having you ask yourself this question.

How would you exercise or not exercise if I told you exercise doesn't matter much for fat loss?

A lot of people would just say,

if it didn't matter for fat loss, I wouldn't be exercising. Honestly, I think one of the biggest lies we've been sold is that exercise is what causes significant fat loss. And this is why I wanted

to lead this capsule with this topic specifically because I think that if we understood

what exercise is doing for your body and what it's not doing for your body, you would exercise

much differently and see better results. It's truly not our fault for believing that exercise

is what you need to do to lose fat or to lose weight. Some of my earliest memories of fitness

were infomercials showing dramatic P90X transformations. I remember my dad did P90X. We got all the

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