It’s when the average energy expenditure from a task is on average higher than the energy spent on the task itself. If you’re spending more energy on working out than an activity that takes you 15 minutes, you need to do more to keep yourself going than that 15 minutes.
The average working out session at a gym or running on a treadmill would be more than 15 minutes long, so it stands to reason that working out at home would be more than a 15 minute activity.
What does “otw” mean in the context of the last two sentences? The average calorie expenditure of a person doing a task at the average intensity doesn’t mean what you think it means. The average calorie expenditure of a person doing a task at the average intensity is based on the average calorie expenditure during the last activity.
That’s right! A 15 minutes exercise session is probably only slightly more than a 20 minute session.
So what does the average calorie expenditure of a person doing a task at the average intensity means in the context of the last two sentences? Well it means that over 15 minutes of strenuous activity the average person will expend an average of about 4,000 calories. That means that over 15 minutes of strenuous activity the average person will burn about 4,000 calories in all. And that’s quite a lot of calories.
So if your average calorie expenditure is 4,000 calories over 2 hours, you burn that many calories a day. So if you are doing this every day, you are burning about 30,000 calories a year. That means you must be eating about the same amount of calories every day. This is a lot of calories.
In order to burn that much calories, you have to eat a lot. If you eat about the same amount of calories every day, then you are eating about 3,000 calories a day. That is quite a bit of calories. If you eat 3,000 calories a day, you have to expend at least 1,000 calories every day. That is about 3,000 calories a day per person. That is just about the amount of calories you eat in a day.
It’s also a lot of food. But if you eat 3,000 calories a day, you’re going to need about 1,000 calories a day to compensate you for your high caloric intake. If you eat 3,000 calories a day, you need 2,000 calories a day to burn off the calories you expend each day.
If you eat 3,000 calories a day, you will need about 2,000 calories a day to eat them. If you eat 3,000 calories a day, you need 1,500 calories a day to compensate for your high caloric intake per day. So if you eat 3,000 calories a day, you need about 2,000 calories a day to burn off your calories.
I’ve said this before on our blog, but I’ll say it again: if you eat a diet high in carbohydrates, then you’ll need to eat more calories than you expend. That’s because you’re burning more calories than you’re absorbing. When you eat a high-carb diet, you need to eat more calories than you expend, meaning your body can burn only so much calories.
