If you go to the gym to lose weight, read here

And we come to the umpteenth study that explains why using the gym to lose weight may not be a good idea: the new work of researchers at the University of Loyola says something we already knew, because it is the same conclusion that others have reached. researchers in previous studies.
Attending the gym to lose weight is useless, but then I’ll explain better the meaning of what I’m saying, starting with what is meant by “lose weight”. Let’s see the new study first.

On a sample of two thousand people aged 25 to 40, hailing from five different countries and analyzed for a full two years, the researchers found that in general people stayed the same weight or gained weight by doing physical education. The reasons are many, in particular:
– if you go to the gym to lose weight and think you need to eat more because you have burned a lot of calories, you are probably overestimating your energy expenditure
– if you go to the gym to lose weight but do not check how many calories you consume, know that the gym will make you hungry
Another problem I add, and it is also the limit of the study.

In fact, the experts assessed the effectiveness of the gym in terms of weight, and not body composition, although fat mass was also measured in the participants. With the problem that, if I still have the same weight but I have reduced the percentage of body mass in two years, I have actually lost weight.

So what can we conclude from this umpteenth study?
That if you want to go to the gym to lose weight, you have to pay attention to:
– how many calories you introduce
– not to overestimate the calories consumed: in particular, read the caloric estimates of the various devices by default
– the type of activity you do: if it is aimed at a better body composition, that is, to reduce your fat mass, you are losing weight even if the scale gives you the same weight. In this case, a BIA between before or after (i.e. from the beginning of your membership in the gym to a few months later) could be useful to evaluate the actual progress in terms of muscle mass and basal metabolic rate. If you see an improvement, don’t give a damn about the scale.