Does going to the gym every day make you lose weight?

The gym thrives on cyclicality, like diets. We all start sparkling in September, we spring just as stubborn in November. Then there is December, there are the holidays and oh well. Everyone returns sparkling in January, and so on. To make this fluctuating situation worse, the do-it-yourself gurus (in the sense that they themselves have proclaimed themselves as such) of nutrition also think about it. People who go on TV. People like Dr Alberico Lemme, a pharmacist, who went on TV saying that physical activity makes you fat. He is not the only one who has created so much misinformation. Because you know, people want to work little, and above all they look for quick results without committing themselves. So it is convenient to hear about slimming programs that include five-minute workouts a day (we also fell forthe famous personal trainer Harley Pasternak, guru of the stars ).

So let’s start from the beginning: is it true that training makes you fat?

Clearly not. Many of the advertising photos you see on the internet, with a claim like “Do you want to lose 5, 10, 15 kg? Write me ok and I’ll help you make your dream come true! 1 !! 1! ” show models who belong to the fitness world , and probably make fewer food sacrifices than a person who underestimates physical activity and then follow a thousand-calorie hunger regimes (or rely on the Lemme diet, or write ok in the comments of some coach who will sell them supplements).
So if it makes you lose weight, are there special cases in which training makes you fat instead?

In this article published on the Project Invictus website , Andrea Biasci replies: it depends. Go to the gym every day,

as well as training that exceeds two to three hours, causes metabolic stress , and consequently the increase of cortisol, one of the main stress hormones.
With the effect that is considered water, we tend to burn less, we swell, the lean mass does not grow as it should, an imbalance of the sodium-potassium pump occurs, which regulates membrane transport and therefore cell osmosis, generally causing accumulation of liquids, wanting to remain light (the damage can in fact be more serious).
At the same time, many people who bold and bubbly go to the gym in September or January (there are those who try in July …) to have immediately an enviable physical shape, tend to exceed on two fronts:they go on a weight loss diet (the weight loss diet is always a stress), and decide to go to the gym every day, convinced that the more you do, the better.

This only increases the stress response, which can slow down your metabolism as a result .
John Kiefer goes down hard on this, and in this article , which I have already discussed, he even states that not only going to the gym every day can slow down metabolism, but excess aerobic activity. zumba, treadmill, elliptical every day, some who run every day, etc.) can cause hypothyroidism.

So what can we conclude? Exercising is the only tool to change our body composition.
Training every day is generally to be avoided if we want the body to respond well to the gym.
Ideal workouts are under two hours per session, and shouldn’t be done more than three to four times a week.
In this way, stress will not negatively affect us and we will lose weight, but above all, fat.