Something a few people have said to me recently. An element of this is true! We all have abdominals, seeing them will depend on your body fat.
Let’s quickly explain what you can see in the diagram and provide a couple of hints to get closer to these abs…
BMR. Basal metabolic rate, simply your body’s expenditure at complete rest.
EAT. Exercise activity thermogenesis. What you do in you hour at the gym only equates to roughly 5-10% of your days TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). The amount of calories you body burns in a day.
TEF (thermic effect of food) the number of calories you burn to digest and absorb food.
NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) everything you do outside the gym, walking, fidgeting, cleaning, running around after children.
Protein has the highest TEF of all foods! So if you increased the protein in your diet you’d be helping your body to burn more calories through digestion.
Increase your NEAT with walking. 10,000 steps burns roughly 400-600 calories, think about the total calories you could burn if were able to achieve 70,000 steps per week!!!
