when we're thinking about effective exercise is we need to focus on how that exercise can

improve the way that our body works because that's what exercise does exercise is a training

tool to help our body perform better so if you were exercising simply to expand energy and

you're doing things that don't like specifically target and benefit various

aspects of your health and well-being, then the exercise is probably not going to be as

effective as it could be if you were focusing on improving these important aspects of our health

and of the way that our body works. Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast,

where we help you cut through the noise

and make informed science-based decisions

about nutrition and your health.

How's it going on, everyone?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez,

and in this episode,

we are going to be discussing how to get more out of your exercise routine. So I was talking to a client recently. We were

discussing exercise and just discussing getting more of it. And I could tell, based on the conversation,

that her perception of exercise

and her, the way that she was approaching exercise was primarily focused on how to burn calories

with exercise. And it's really important that you do not do this. And this is something that I'm

going to talk about in this episode why, number one,

using exercise as a way to burn calories and lose weight is not a very effective approach

for weight loss.

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