Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joint. This is one question Monday where Dr. Payton, physical therapist and instructor at Evelo and myself,'m Shannon we just break down a quick common

question that we get which are to be as concise as possible so welcome Payton

thank you all right let's dig in.

So what I first want to talk about is some misconceptions behind cardio and why people tend to use cardio in the wrong ways.

So the first thing that comes to mind

is people increase their cardio for weight loss,

to accelerate weight loss.

This is a common question that we get. Oh, I have more fat to lose. I've been told I need to do more cardio. We always say

weight loss is primarily nutrition and the reason for that and I talked about this in many

other episodes so I apologize if I'm a broken record but the reason for that has to do

with how we expend energy. When you add more activity in the short term, your energy expenditure

increases, so you burn more calories throughout the day.

But as you continue that same activity,

your energy expenditure diminishes

as your body adapt to that new activity.

So basically in the beginning,

you'll burn more calories if you add a bunch of more cardio or whatever you'll burn more calories in the beginning and then your calories will start to drop again back towards your baseline. So it's really not a long-term solution to just add more cardio for

fat loss if that's your goal. So we like to say focus on your nutrition, not how much you're exercising. So there's that.

But cardio is awesome for heart health.

And Payton, do we want to talk about how much cardio

we recommend for just overall health and longevity. So the gold standard of recommendation

seems to be that 150 minute mark of light to moderate intensity cardio.

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