Endurance athletes have no problem losing weight, right or myth?

“I am a cyclist, runner or triathlete, if I want to lose weight… is training a little more enough? The answer is no.

Our collaborator Victory Endurance through Celeste González, an expert in sports supplementation, tells us in this article the keys to solve this doubt.

It is a big mistake that it seems that we do not finish assimilating. When you pose lose weight There is always that tendency (myself included) to want to exercise more, or do double or triple the cardio, leaving the most important thing behind last: diet. Y this error is even more common in endurance or long distance athletes, because they do a lot of cardio, they think that's how they will lose weight.

No matter how much triathlete or runner you are, if you do not focus on food you will never reduce body fat

What's more, my personal experience tells me that precisely, an overtraining or doing cardio in excess will produce the opposite effect to the desired one. It's very simple: more exercise, you spend more calories, you stress more, you get even more tired ... risk of breaking the diet high.

And it is not only because doing more cardio opens our appetite, it is that our body is most likely to enter a state of "alarm" and activate its mechanisms to slow down the metabolism.

Guys, I always insist on this: I am not a doctor, neither a scientist nor an expert in the metabolic relations of the human body. I only give my opinion as an athlete and ex - competitor of body fitness with more than twenty years working in the industry of fitness and sports supplementation. I do not know if someone who really is an expert might seem wrong, but it is what I have experienced, both in my person and in the preparations of other clients.

My advice is that you look for a coherent balance. Everything in excess is bad. And our body is the first to react to these excesses, sometimes producing the opposite effect to the desired

• Always put the food first: it is the final key to losing weight.

• Practice sports form from 3 to 5 days per week

• Cardio: the usual one !!! The one you usually do in your sport

• Use supplements that help you both in fat loss and performance, I recommend Race Start. Excellent and effective without the need to force the machine by folding the exercise

• Always think that this is a sometimes slow process, it is not advisable to lose weight fast. Remember, short steps, short goals for a great final result.

Celeste González

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