This scientist-approved method could burn up to 2,000 additional calories.
In addition to a varied and balanced diet, exercise helps burn calories and helps you lose weight. But good news for those who want to do less physical activity : A method that completely ignores sports practice would enable a significant increase Your daily energy consumption and could have a direct impact on weight loss. This is the NEAT method, an English anagram of “Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis” or in French “Thermogenesis of non-exercise activities“. It corresponds the energy used Movements throughout the dayIn addition to sporting activities such as moving, cooking, working, typing on the computer, driving, doing yard work, cleaning, walking the dog, shopping, taking out the trash or even climbing stairs, we can read about it in a scientific publication published in the Journal Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
How can you increase your NEAT?
The principle of NEAT is this move as much as possible. Specifically, it's about increasing your daily share of these activities at first glance “insignificant” during working hours and private time:
- Reduce the time you spend sitting every day: get up every hour and take a few steps, hold meetings standing up if possible… “The less you sit, the more calories you burn through NEAT.”
- Park your car at the end of the parking lot or in the space furthest from the store
- Take the stairs instead of the elevator (or escalator), or go down a floor or two before your own floor.
- Take a walk while talking on the phone
- Carry your purchases yourself instead of putting them in a shopping cart
- Instead of waiting, take a few steps, for example if the person you are waiting for is late
- Choose whether you want to cycle or walk to work
- Get off at a bus or subway stop in front of your own
- Laugh as much as possible: Studies have shown that an average adult can lose 2 calories per minute by laughing. In addition, sustained laughter trains the abdominal muscles.
Burned up to 2,000 additional calories
Researchers consider NEAT as a kind of “reservoir” for involuntary physical activities we do that every day without noticing it and that one can “carefully regulate (…) to control one’s weight.” Movements associated with NEAT in high doses can cause burning, according to a publication in the medical journal Mayo Clinic Processings up to 2,000 additional kcal per dayin addition to calories burned Basic metabolism (i.e. the minimum daily energy expenditure that the human organism needs to survive at rest) and to have at the end of the day”a negative energy balance” and therefore weight loss. In addition, by exercising more, you can increase your muscle mass. And the more muscles you have, the more calories the body consumes. Therefore it is like this a virtuous cycle. “The benefits of increasing your NEAT include more than just additional calorie consumptionbut also the reduction in the occurrence of metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality,” the researchers specify. That's why health experts often advise people most sedentary You must first improve your NEAT before you even think about doing any sporting activity.