Health Article
Lose Weight in Your Sleep!
Although weight loss can definitely be achieved by changing diet alone, exercise can speed the process up, as well as helping if you do happen to hit a weight loss plateau. Exercise helps you burn more kilojoules during the day, but also at night. How so?
Total Kilojoule Expenditure is simply the total amount of kilojoules that your body burns in one day. The vast majority of kilojoules expended are used for the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) or the “Resting Metabolism.” This BMR accounts for over 70% of an individual’s total kilojoules used in one day. These are the kilojoules your body uses to keep your engine running.
Your body is like your car. Think of turning your car engine on in the morning and just letting it run in the driveway. The car sitting in the driveway burning fuel is like your BMR. The bigger the car engine, the more fuel it uses. So a big truck burns lots of fuel and gets maybe eight miles to the gallon while an economy car uses little fuel and gets 40 miles to the gallon. If you pushed down on the gas pedal and revved the engine, you would be burning more fuel, which is basically what you do when you exercise.
The amount of muscle you have determines how many kilojoules you burn everyday in a resting state. Each pound of muscle burns approximately 14 kilojoules per day, so a big football player may burn over 3,000 kilojoules/day at rest (BMR=3000). Meanwhile a tall and thin ballerina may burn only 1,200 kilojoules/day at rest (BMR=1200).
When you exercise, you build more muscle mass and increase the size of your engine, which is a good thing. That means that even while you sleep you will be burning more kilojoules because you have increased your BMR.
Imagine taking a small economy car and putting in a bigger engine that requires more fuel. That is the basic idea behind exercise training, fine-tuning your body’s engine into a high-performance machine.
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Tips for burning more kilojoules:
- Exercise to increase muscle mass.
- Fuel up with Herbalife nutrition products.
- Rev up your workout routine to burn more kilojoules.