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Does continuous jogging help in reducing weight?

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Does continuous jogging help in reducing weight?

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Yes, it can help. It’s not a silver bullet, though — jogging won’t cause you to lose your gut overnight. Losing weight is simply burning more calories than you eat, over a good period of time. Not a week or two, but more likely a few months or a year or more. As running burns a good amount of calories, it’ll help you get into a caloric deficit, especially as you increase your endurance and can run for a longer time. There’s a school of thought, especially in weightlifting circles, that sprinting intervals is better for burning fat. And if your workout time is very limited, this is true — if you can only work out for 20 minutes, you’ll burn more calories sprinting or doing some other intense exercise rather than just steady-state running (or jogging). There are a couple of problems with that thinking, though: 1) sprinting is very intense, so if you’re not in good shape it’s not smart to just start sprinting; 2) the intensity of sprinting means you need more time to recover — so you shou

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