Everybody knows that if you want to lose fat you should be more active and that includes incorporating lifestyle activities like walking to work or the shops and taking the stairs instead of the elevator, into your life. It is important to realise however, that as valuable as these lifestyle activities are, they are generally not going to yield big results in the fat loss stakes. In most cases they are going to be an adjunct to your training, unless of course you make your trip to work into a interval training or even a steady state cardio session.

You need to be active and train hard.

A term starting to used more and more recently is “skinny fat.” Skinny fat describes the sad situation where a person weighs very little but still has a high percentage bodyfat. Remember that if your goal is fat loss and improved body image, skinny fat does not meet either criteria.