You Can’t Out-Train a Bad Diet

As a personal trainer, most people that come to Primal would like to lose weight using exercise to help them achieve their weight-loss goals.

What's important to point out is that although exercise is a crucial point in reaching your fitness goals, it’s not the most important part in helping you lose those excess pounds. As the saying goes, you can’t out train a bad diet.

Take, for example, my friend Kathy who ran the London Marathon - a grueling 4-hour effort. So, how many calories did she burn? Well, you’ll be surprised to know it’s roughly the equivalent of a large pepperoni pizza from a popular restaurant chain (hoo hoo). Which shows how hard it is to burn those extra calories.

But, don’t let that put you off!! With exercise, you get so much more out of it than an extra calorie burn. It’s amazing at helping you reduce stress, lowers your heart rate and blood pressure, makes you stronger, with less risk of injury, and most of all improves almost every part of your life.

When you combine regular exercise, which you enjoy, with a healthy, balanced diet while cutting down on junk food, you’ll be on the route to a fitter, healthier you, and most importantly, all this will improve your overall well-being in more ways than any set of scales can tell you.