Ted Talk 122: Fat Loss Myth Busted: How Long Do You Need To Exercise To Lose Weight
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to lose weight if you don't have too much time for exercise? How much time you should spend at the gym to lose weight? In this Ted Talk episode, Ted Ryce explains how much exercise you need to do in order to lose weight, so you can finally stop wasting hours at the gym.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's the thing with running, it doesn't build muscle. |
| 0:09.6 | In fact, we know from studies that if you focus on cardio and try to diet at the same time, |
| 0:15.4 | that you 25% of the weight you lose is muscle. |
| 0:19.8 | So if you're running seven days a week right now or doing cardio seven days a week right |
| 0:24.1 | now, no weight training because of whatever reason, whatever ridiculousness that you heard |
| 0:30.1 | online or whatever ridiculousness idea or ridiculous idea that you have in your head about |
| 0:35.9 | what gets results. |
| 0:36.9 | Let's say you lose ten pounds without but two and a half pounds is muscle and guess what? |
| 0:41.5 | You lost muscle, your metabolic rate is lower, it's going to make it easier for the |
| 0:45.4 | weight to come back on. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the legendary live podcast where it's all about taking control of your health, |
| 0:52.4 | losing fat, transforming your body and living the life you deserve with celebrity fitness |
| 0:57.8 | trainer and longevity enthusiast Ted Rice. |
| 1:01.3 | Now back to the show. |
| 1:04.5 | Do you believe that you need to spend hours in the gym to change your body and that if |
| 1:10.3 | you only spend more time, if you only worked out a bit more, a bit longer, a bit harder |
| 1:17.1 | than your body would change? |
| 1:19.0 | Today we're going to talk about why that isn't true and more importantly, I'm going to |
| 1:23.3 | tell you what is true, what you need to focus on because I fell into this trap myself. |
| 1:29.6 | I used to believe that if I didn't go to the gym for an hour, I should not go at all. |
| 1:36.2 | So if this is something you've said to yourself, you're in the right place, you're going to |
| 1:40.8 | want to listen to this episode. |
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