I see a lot of sarcastic comments, but even Kurzgesagt released a video that talks about how exercising doesn't really increase energy expenditure. The theory/findings were that we tend to have a consistent allocation of where energy is spent. Maybe if you start exercising tomorrow, you'd be expending more energy than before, but there was research suggesting that over a month, you'd be expending the same amount of energy as you usually did, by reallocating where the energy is spent.

This research just reinforces that exercising doesn't affect reallocation of energy expenditure.

But that being said, this seems like it was a 2-week experiment, and doesn't disprove that maybe across months the body gets used to the exercise, and reallocation happens.

Anyone who has gone from not exercising to exercising a lot and vice versa can tell you that this theory is complete nonsense.

Is this somehow new information? I thought it’s been known for years (decades?) that increasing physical activity also increases daily energy use. The “metabolic adaption” that people discuss is merely a fractional reduction in NEAT expenditure that compensates partially but not completely in caloric expenditure. You’ll always burn more calories by doing exercise vs not, I don’t know why this would be new science.

It's become controversial because of the politics of weight loss, and the media's addiction to "counterintuitive research shows".

When I read this title, it sounded like "if you travel further with your vehicle, you will consume more gas". Wow, people get paid to make this study ?

Agree. Much more interesting is the nugget that "your car keys always travel farther than your car" (assuming you're only using one set of course).

I had hoped that the keys to increasing energy use were sitting, eating snacks, and sleeping.

> The research also found a clear link between being more active and spending less time sitting still.

This is hard to argue with, but I will try anyway.

> Physical activity increases total daily energy use, study shows

From Virginia Tech: Research that matter. Captain Obvious strikes again. /s