In part three of our series, I’ll explain why exercise as well as diet is important
There is a saying that losing body fat is 70% diet, 30% training. Given that, you could be forgiven for wondering if training is therefore really all that important, or could you just do the healthy eating part of a fitness regime?
Well, there is no doubt that when we lose body fat, we can look better and slimmer – but do we actually look fitter?
The reality is, there are things training can do which diet can’t. None of us can stay in our twenties forever. Indeed, when we hit our thirties, everything starts to go a little downhill, especially if you haven’t been training already. Diet alone will not help this.
The simple fact is that training will improve your fitness – including helping your heart, you know, that muscle we tend not to worry about until we have to – and helps develop and maintain any muscle tone in the body.
Now you may ask yourself, well, do I really care about developing muscle? Yes, should be the simple answer! We all have our least favourite body parts, but one thing I’ve learned over the years is, whether you have more or less body fat on you, if you have minimal muscle things just hang there and no one is ever happy about that. And, the older you get, the more it hangs.