The Role of Exercise in Fat Loss.

Just a quick note to clear up any confusion -

When on a fat loss program, it’s the diet that causes you to lose fat.

Primarily, exercise (strength training) prevents the loss of muscle tissue while your body is burning fat tissue for energy.  If you’re a beginner, you’ll probably even gain muscle while losing fat.

Exercise can contribute towards creating an energy deficit (i.e., burn more calories), but this is at best a secondary role.  Exercising in order to burn calories for fat loss purposes is a fool’s game.  You haven’t a chance.

Unless, of course, you modify diet accordingly.  And if you do modify diet accordingly, then you don’t need to “burn extra calories by exercising.”

So, to summarize:

Exercise to prevent muscle loss.  Eat to enable fat loss.

Hope that clears things up.