Exercise has received a lot of backlash recently from mainstream media. With tons of videos and articles being made how exercise is redundant.

All these sources claim one thing – if you want to lose weight then you need to improve your diet.

Take this video by Vox for example:

While it is true that your diet plays an important role in weight loss. Saying that exercise is unnecessary is completely false.

I would go as far to argue that exercise a crucial element to losing weight and fat loss.

Exercise helps make sure that you are in caloric deficit by helping you burn extra calories while training and by increasing your resting metabolic rate.

A combination of cardio and resistance training is necessary.

Quite often, I have clients who do the exact opposite. They focus far too much on their exercise but ignore their diet. Their hopes are that by doing so they are going to burn off the calories from their poor diet and have nothing to worry about.

And then they wonder why they can’t lose weight.

A balance between a good diet and exercise is fundamental for weight loss.

Summary:

Exercise is important for weight loss. Make sure you incorporate cardio and resistance training with your diet to improve results.