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Episode #151: Energy Expenditure, Metabolism, and More with Herman Pontzer
Barbell Medicine Podcast
The Effect of Exercise on Total Daily Energy Expenditure
When people start exercising, they start a new exercise program. And for those first few weeks, you are burning calories just like you'd expect from a calorie calculator. But over time, what happens is your body adjusts and somewhere around half of the energy that you're spending on the exercise will be used up by other activities. So yeah, that's the kind of thing you can expect if you start an exercise program and you should still absolutely do it. It just doesn't work the way you think it does.
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