Reaching your goals is hard work, and it's much harder for some than others. This isn't necessarily because some people are more motivated than others, but rather, some people have more environmental factors preventing them from reaching their goals or, at the very least, slowing down progress. So, it's in our interest to make our environment more conducive to our goals.
This is a great question! We know that fat loss ultimately comes down to the calories and ensuring they are low enough to induce weight loss. We also know that we need to consume an adequate amount of protein to maintain muscle mass when cutting, recover from sessions and optimise muscle protein synthesis.
NEAT is short for Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis – it’s the energy expended for everything we do that is not sleeping, eating or planned exercise. If you're doing something physical and it's not training, then it's NEAT. Moving around through your day, maintaining posture, fidgeting, cleaning, and gardening would all be considered NEAT.
Does our metabolic rate really slow down as we hit 30, 40 or even 50 years old? Let's ask science – let's check out a 2021 study on 'Daily energy expenditure through the human life course' containing 6,421 subjects. When reviewing the data, it's pretty evident that from age 20 to 60, our metabolic rate and total energy expenditure stays super steady.
