Can fitness in the gym help you lose weight?

The answer is never one-size-fits-all. If you enter the gym and take photos of your outfit for half an hour, walk slowly on the treadmill for ten minutes, and binge-watch TV shows while chewing on protein bars, you’re lucky if you don’t gain weight, let alone lose weight.； But if you follow the right method and are willing to stick to it, the gym is definitely one of the best options for ordinary people to lose weight on a large basis and get in shape and improve metabolism on a small basis.

I met an older sister at the gym two years ago. When I first applied for the annual membership card, I was full of fighting spirit. She came to report on time every day. Every time I came, I would take two selfies at the door of the exercise room, ride a spinning bike for 20 minutes and then take a shower. Occasionally, I would bring an ice cream and eat it in the rest area before leaving. In the past three months, I had gained two pounds. I told my friends everywhere that the gym was an IQ tax. This is a typical "ineffective fitness". The gym is useless, and the idea is not used at all.

There are also many people who say "30% exercise and 70% food", and you can't lose weight just by practicing in the gym. This is actually true. There was a young man who had just graduated who trained with me for almost a month. He did one hour of strength and forty minutes of aerobics every day, and he was sweating all over. Then he went to the barbecue stall downstairs to eat two skewers of kidneys with iced Coke. After a month, his weight was as stable as if it were welded to the scale. He also complained that fitness was useless. Can you blame the gym for this?

To put it bluntly, the core of weight loss is the caloric gap. The advantage of the gym is that it can maximize your efficiency on the consumption side - whether it is to train large muscle groups such as shoulders, back and legs, build muscles to increase basal metabolism, or use professional equipment such as elliptical machines and rowing machines to do aerobics to avoid injuring your knees by jumping at home, it is much more efficient than just thinking at home. I took care of a 180-pound boy last year. He came four times a week. Each time, he practiced strength training for 40 minutes and then walked on a slope for 20 minutes. When he returned, he ate brown rice, fried chicken breasts, and boiled vegetables. He lost 32 pounds in two months, and even the jeans he couldn't wear before were loose.

To put it bluntly, you may not be able to get into Qingbei if you enroll in a key cram school. The gym only provides you with more professional tools and a more atmospheric scene. Whether you can lose weight in the end depends on whether you follow the logic of the calorie gap and whether you really spend your time practicing instead of posing for photos. If you really don’t know how to do it, find a reliable coach to guide you for two months. It will save a lot of time than trying to do it yourself. When you lose weight and look good in anything, you will know whether this card is worth it.