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.
What is Resistance Training? Resistance Training or Strength Training involves weight bearing, physical exercise of a muscle or muscles, in order to improve strength, endurance and elicit muscle building. This article explains the benefits of resistance training and how you can use it to transform your body and health.
There are many websites, publications and individuals sharing fitness information based purely on anecdotal evidence, their own beliefs, outdated research and, to be frank, completely made-up stuff that is usually intentionally controversial or evocative because it will create more attention or it’s the current trend. I’d like to share with you the differing research methods in use and the levels of rigour / accuracy of each, so you can sort the fact from the fiction and have confidence in the information you engage with.
