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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”30 April 2019 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body
This last Sunday my good wife (and our sister-in-law, her brother and some other people we know) ran the London Marathon.
We all went down to watch and they all did brilliantly.
Mega proud of them all 🙂
She was feeling it yesterday – it was hard work!
26.2 miles.
Did you know that 10 stone person burns a little over 100 calories per mile ran?
2,620 calories over a marathon.
At 15 stone it would be 3,930 cals.
Those numbers aren’t mega precise.
But they won’t be too far from the truth.
There is approximately 3,500 calories or energy stored in a pound of body fat.
See above for that accuracy.
So a 10 stone person running a marathon would, essentially, burn less than one pound of body fat.
All else being equal.
A fifteen stone person a little over a pound.
You’d hit the exact one pound mark if you were 13 stone and 5lbs.
That’s a lot of running to burn a pound of body fat, isn’t it?
Not really worth it, is it?
As we’ve mentioned before, exercise is a spectacularly ineffective way to lose weight.
Imagine if you had to run 14 marathons to lose a stone.
Whilst not eating any more.
I know I wouldn’t bother.
What would you rather do…………
Run a marathon each week or…………
Create a 500 calories a day (average) deficit?
Not saying the second option is easy.
But it’s waaaaayyyyyy easier than the first, no?
Exercise is great for health, fitness, strength, endurance, mood, energy levels and much more.
And it can be the ‘icing on the cake’ for weight loss.
But, it’s not your bigger win.
Any of our contemporaries that try and sell you exercise for ‘fat burning’ are probably best avoided.
If you, or a friend, are interested, what we do is help people who’ve struggled to do what they could, in theory, do for free (90%+ of the population)……….
Actually achieve and maintain the results they want………
Without having to live like a monk and do exercise they hate………
Whilst having fun with like minded people in an intimidation free atmosphere (find out more meeting tonight if you, or they, would like to learn more about that – – > myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting).
So if you’re already with us and not losing weight as you’d like, the Phase tab on the app, the meal planner, the daily videos, an InBody assessment with interpretation on consultation and so on are all waaaayyyyyy bigger wins that another session.
If you’re not already with us, don’t leave it for another month – – > myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.
Much love,
Jon ‘Getting across London with four kids was nearly as hard’ Hall and Matt ‘No likey running’ Nicholson
