What!

You mean… what the hell have I been doing for the last umpty ump years!

Hopefully getting fit that’s what.

If you are working out to lose weight, you are missing the point of exercise. Being active, exercise, working out and fitness training are all about mobility, and developing fitness. They have only become weight loss tactics in the past 50 years, ever since our lifestyles, particularly our eating habits, have become so stratospherically ridiculous.

I have been publishing information on this for years. Your current weight is not caused by the lack of a workout program, it’s caused by an overwhelming, exhausting lifestyle that is resulting in lifestyle choices that result in you becoming overweight. For example if you are eating nutrient poor food you are going to get overweight, because when you eat nutrient poor food, you are left full but unfulfilled and driven to over consume regardless.

When it comes to weight, your focus needs to be on lifestyle, and this including being active. When it comes to exercise, training and conditioning, your focus needs to be on fitness.

Fat loss is a natural benefit or "effect" but even that is hard when the result of your lifestyle is overwhelm and exhaustion. A slow metabolism and the negative effects of stress hormones like cortisoland Leptin, due to lack of recuperation and too much stress, can cause strangely paradoxical effects, regardless of how much you exercise.

If exercise were all about weight loss, or all you needed to do to lose weight were to exercise, your average landscaper would be thin as a rail, especially since aerobic exercise uses fat as fuel. They walk miles per day.

There is much more to this equation for sure, but the point I’m making here is that your lifestyle has to reinforce your training efforts else your fitness efforts, let alone your desire to lose weight, will fall short.

We don’t teach exercise as a weight loss strategy, here at Fit for Power; only that fat loss is a benefit of exercise, particularly in exercise that is hard, brief and infrequent and allows for plenty of recuperation.

Your body needs energy to lose weight. Exercise makes your body more efficient with energy, but in and of itself does not increase your energy. Think about that for a bit.

John Allen Mollenhauer is the Founder of MyTrainer.com where fitness video’s are free for everybody! He is also the founder Performance Lifestyle Solutions, the better healthier ways to achieve your goals in life, business and sport. As a former worn down workaholic turned healthy high achiever John Allen (aka “JAM”) will teach you how to Live Like a Pro, optimizing your lifestyle the way athletes do. He is the creator of the Healthy High Achiever – Unleash the Full Potential of Your Lifestyle to Perform, Look and Feel Better!