The Energy Balance Podcast EB. 81: Whether Intense Exercise and Endurance Training Should Be Avoided (Fitness vs. Health Part 2)
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How to determine how much exercise is right for you
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Why working out regularly is not enough to make up for sitting all day
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Why fitness and health are not synonymous
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Whether lactic acid production, breathlessness, and fat oxidation due to exercise should be avoided at all costs
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Whether intense exercise and being highly active is always more harmful than helpful
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Timestamps:
2:55 – the benefits of movement and exercise
6:41 – whether intense exercise involving lactate production and heavy breathing/breathlessness is harmful
10:13 – whether endurance training involving fat oxidation is harmful
18:31 – drawing a line between fitness and health
25:06 – how to determine how much exercise is right for you
38:23 – whether intense exercise and being highly active is always more harmful than helpful
43:33 – why “eat less and exercise more” doesn’t work and ignores major aspects of our physiology