When someone wants to lose weight, their initial instinct may be to go to the gym, which is great. However, maintaining an active lifestyle can burn a significantly higher number of calories than your average gym workout. This has also helped demonstrate why some people gain less weight than others when overeating; they find themselves moving more when calories are increased whereas other people don’t. So, increasing your NEAT is free, simple to implement, has a low injury risk (compared to someone sedentary taking up running, perhaps) and can contribute a lot more to total calories burned
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