Holford LOW-GL Body Plan
Your body is designed to move, and a certain level of exercise is needed just to keep it working healthily. However, it’s all too easy to develop a couch-potato lifestyle, or simply to run out of time to exercise. This is bad news for your long-term health as well as your weight. Low activity levels exaggerate your appetite, slow your rate of metabolism and interfere with your body’s ability to keep blood glucose levels stable.
GET THE EXERCISE HABIT
Combining diet and exercise is the best way to lose weight: that way you lose fat, not lean muscle when you diet.
Muscle burns up more energy than fat, so the less muscle you have, the slower your metabolism.
Aerobic exercise (such as brisk walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, dance, skiing, circuit training) increases your heart rate and is ideal for fatburning, whereas anaerobic exercise (using weights or resistance) builds lean muscle and improves body tone. (more…)
