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Make 2016 the year you exercise less

Related Topics: Physical exercise, Fat

By Nate Gilbert–

I have a challenge for you: Make 2016 the year you exercise less for your fitness and fat loss goals. Yes, you heard me correctly.

Exercising is hard, it can be painful and often leaves you sore the next day. Yet, the CDC recommends resistance training at least twice per week and at least an hour and fifteen minutes of moderate to intense aerobic activity. In addition to the discomfort that exercise often brings, the traditional recommendations for how much you should exercise are really hard to pencil into schedules.

Last year, I decided I was sick of exercising.