With regular exercise you can reduce weight but inconsistent exercise will result in weight gain. You may reduce weight once with an inconsistent exercise schedule but when you resume your exercising schedule you will definitely put on weight instead of loosing it.

A recent research study establishing this fact with sufficient evidences has been published in the February issue of the journal “Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise”.

Dr. Paul Williams, the lead researcher conducted this study for a period of eight year with more than 40,000 runners. He observed that the rate of weight gain in the male and female runners who reduced their running distances on weekly basis was considerably high compared to the weight loss in men and women runners who instead enhanced their running distances every week by the same ratio.

Dr. Paul Williams says, “If you stop exercising with the intention of starting again later, you don’t get to pick up where you left off”. It is more probable that you will put on some extra pounds and this will continue if the level of exercises is not heavily increased.” It’s an ounce of prevention or a pound of cure, literally”, he says.

The study revealed that the level of substantial weight loss is attained when the running distance is more than 25 kilometers per week for the male participants and 48 kilometers per week for the female participants.

Those participants who were already running for longer distances per week but reduced the distance due to any reasons but have been successful in maintaining a long distance per week running gained far less weight in comparison to those participants who started with shorter running distances and reduced that even further.

According to researchers a sedentary lifestyle is the main reason behind this weight gain. This research has given sufficient evidences to the researchers to suggest that a well planned daily physical activity schedule is very much necessary to prevent any significant weight gaining.

According to the researcher’s suggestions exercising must be started before it happens to weight gain. Healthy adults must exercise for at least 30 minutes a day for five days a week with moderate intensity. Alternatively, a 20 minutes vigorously intense workout for three days a week would also be sufficient. For a considerable weight loss, one has to work out real hard for at least sixty to ninety minutes every day. “Whether it’s running, cycling, swimming, or something else, activity is needed for a healthy lifestyle that prevents weight gain”, says Dr. Williams.

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