A simple daily walk with your dog can be an important help in making you achieve your goals.

Most people lead an extremely sedentary lifestyle, because they spend most of the day working at a desk or watching television.

This leads many people to believe that the cause of their problems is directly related to the fact that they have a very slow metabolism, thinking that they get fat by just looking at food.

Evidently, some people have endocrine problems that make fat loss hard, but the truth is that most people don’t possess any kind of illness. What they do have is a lack of “MOVEMENT” problem!

Imagine that you train 3x a week for 1h. That indicates that you’re effectively burning a high amount of calories for only 3 of the 168 hours that a week has.

Here resides the importance of NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis), which consists in the amount of calories spent when we’re not exercising. By this we mean when we’re cooking, vacuuming the house or walking our pet.

It has been proven thanks to scientific studies, as you can see here (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15102614) that NEAT can be the most important factor for fat loss, even more than physical exercise, when combined with your resting metabolism.

So, with our coaching programs, we aim for our clients to have a more active lifestyle. Not only thanks to training but also thanks to their lifestyle.

The only way you can achieve your goals is if you’re doing what you most like in your daily routine! People who don’t like to eat fish will never be able to diet if they’re obliged to eat it!

This is why we’re always saying the same thing in our posts. In all of our coaching programs we DEMAND that our clients respect their PERSONAL PREFERENCE.

SUSTAINABILITY and CONSISTENCY are the secret to being succesful in all areas of our life.

References:

LEVIN, J.A. (2004), “Nonexercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT): Environment and Biology.” Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab: 286(5):E675-85.