Q&A: Which is most effective for Fat Loss, Diet or Exercise?

Evening people, what's up? So our question of the day today is, which is most effective for fat loss? Is it exercise or nutrition? Now, they can both be effective. The trouble we tend to have is that they're different in their effectiveness. Now what I mean by that is, if you do exercise alone, what will often happen is your body will start to change. You will of course get results from either one, whether you choose exercise or nutrition. You'll get some level of result. The catch is when you go exercise alone, you won't necessarily be able to reveal the full extent of what you're building underneath. So you'll go to the gym, you'll start training. Let's say, for example, you're using predominantly resistance training and you're building muscle, etc. But what will happen is you likely won't get as lean as you'd like to because of the fact that you've maybe not dialed in or honed in the nutrition aspect. But on the flip side, if you do nutrition alone without exercise, again, you can lose weight, but what you're— because you're not actually doing anything to stimulate the growth of new muscle or necessarily enough to stimulate the maintenance of the muscle mass you already have, what can happen is we end up being what we call skinny fat. So that's where you're actually slim, as in you've lost a lot of weight, etc., and you look slim. But you actually still have a fairly high body fat percentage. Or you might be able to get your body fat percentage down, but you just don't really look as strong as you could. And a lot of people, when they're, when they're after these aesthetic goals, it's like, yeah, I want to be leaner, but I also want to look fairly strong, capable, and like I can look after myself. When I say look after myself, I don't necessarily mean like I can fight, but we want to kind of look as though we're, we're strong and capable. Not like we're just weak and weary and so on. So, of course, that leads me on to the obvious statement of, well, why not do them both together? Yes, sometimes we might be a bit too busy, overwhelmed, and life's a bit chaotic. So we might start with one or the other. Oh, you know what, I'm going to focus on nutrition first, or I'm going to focus on exercise first. But all of the research shows whenever you combine the two, that's when you're going to get the biggest bang for your buck. Of course, when you, when you go to the gym and you train hard, if you're then going to fuel your body properly and provide the nutrients and the raw resources that it needs in order to repair from the, the effects of the, the workout, that's going to give your body the best potential to look the way you want it to look. The same as if you go and do the training, but then obviously make sure that you fuel it properly. Again, that's going to provide the resources that are needed to repair from the workout, repair any damage that might have been done to the muscles, and so on, and allow your body to hopefully fully recover and also provide your body with the, the, uh, the nutrients and the eventual health status that it will need in order to consistently burn fat and give you the lean, strong, healthy physique that you're probably looking for. So yes, you can do one or the other. Yes, they'll both get results, but your results will never be as good as if you combine the two if you just try to stick with one or the other. They can be used as what we'd call like an anchor habit. Like, for a lot of people, um, they find that, well, unless they're training, they don't bother with their nutrition, or the other way around, unless they're eating well, they don't actually feel like they have the energy or the motivation to train because of the lack of nutrients and stuff coming into the body. So they tend to feel a bit, um, I guess, subpar and worn out and tired. So Of course, as the coach, I recommend you guys do both where possible. And of course, there's a few other things we could talk about as well, but we won't get into those in this video because that wasn't the question. But yes, where possible, exercise and eat well, and that will maximize the potential fat loss, uh, results that you're after. And even if you're trying to get out of pain or you're trying to build muscle or just improve your health overall, whenever you combine the two, you will always get better results. As always, guys, any questions, drop them in the comments below. And if not, I look forward to seeing you guys tomorrow. Take