Exercise is an important part of overall health, but you don’t need to exercise excessively to be successful with MacroRx+. Your calorie and macro prescription already takes your normal activity level into consideration.

For general health, current physical activity guidelines recommend that adults work toward:

• 150–300 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity per week, or 75–150 minutes of vigorous activity, or an equivalent combination.

• Strength training at least 2 days per week, involving all major muscle groups.

• Moving more and sitting less throughout the day.

If you’re currently doing less than this, don’t feel like you need to jump immediately to those numbers. Start where you are and gradually increase your activity as your fitness and circumstances allow.

For body composition, we especially encourage resistance training when you’re able. During weight loss, the goal isn’t simply to make the number on the scale smaller. We also want to support the maintenance of muscle while you’re losing body fat. Adequate protein and resistance training are particularly helpful for that.

Walking, cardiovascular exercise, recreational activities, and simply moving more throughout the day are also valuable for your health and can contribute to your overall energy expenditure.

Don’t use exercise to “earn” additional food or compensate for going over your prescription. Likewise, don’t suddenly add large amounts of cardio because the scale hasn’t moved for a few days.

If your normal activity changes significantly—for example, you start a new training program, begin training for an endurance event, stop exercising because of an injury, or your daily activity changes substantially—let your coach know.Your calorie and macro prescription may need to account for that change.

More exercise isn’t automatically better. The goal is an amount of activity you can recover from, perform consistently, and maintain as part of your life.