In general, people will practice cardiovascular activities and forget about weight bearing exercises when it comes to burning fat. Many trainers will say that aerobic exercises burn off fat and weightlifting is only used to build muscle bulk. This statement is not entirely correct because the more muscle mass one acquires through weight bearing exercises, the more he will burn fat calories...even at rest. We see a growing trend from cardiovascular training towards weight and strength training.
According to a study by the Fitness Products Council and Sporting Goods Manufacturers, the number of people lifting free weights has increased 76 percent in the past decade. Right now, weight lifting is among the most popular sports in North America. This change is for the best because cardiovascular activity combined with weight training will result in much more effective fat loss. Cardiovascular exercises will raise muscle metabolism during the activity and for a short time after the exercise session.
Weight lifting exercises, on the other hand, will raise your muscle metabolism during the exercise session, and for a long time after the exercise session. Some high intensity trainers have even seen their metabolism rise for several days following their training session. Performing adequate weight training exercises should limit your repetitions anywhere from 1 to 20 (more or less). Such resistance on muscles will make their tissue leaner and stronger. The muscle development will take place during the rest period following the resistance training. Therefore sufficient rest periods are essential.
Whether your goal is to tone or build muscles, it is important to know what happens during the muscle training process. When lifting weights, muscle tissues are torn apart (at the microscopic level) from the stress, and it's in the recuperation period that your muscles become stronger and therefore able to support the extra stress. Usually the recuperation period required is 24 to 48 hours after the weight lifting activity.
During the recuperation period, the muscle metabolism is still burning energy, and that's when it's time to perform cardiovascular activities. Carrying out high repetitions of the same movement will tire the body on a different basis. Combining low repetition exercises (weight lifting) with high repetition cardiovascular exercise will stress muscles in a complementary way to increase the total fat burning effect.
Anybody who debates the fact that weight bearing exercises don't help people lose weight and fat should lift weights for one hour and see their heart rate go through the roof. Simply look at athletes who specialize in short, intense bursts of energy and you still see that they are very low in body fat.
The point is to combine a weight lifting routine with a good cardiovascular workout to increase muscle metabolism and total fat burning ratio.
An important factor to consider when trying to lose weight is that lots of muscle mass can be lost as a result. As muscle mass will keep your metabolism high, try to avoid quick weight loss through miracle diets or starvation. This weight loss will be regained just as quickly. Instead, opt for a gradual fat loss routine by combining weight training and cardiovascular activities, and allow muscle mass to build up and increase your metabolism. Results may take a little longer , but they will last for a longer period of time.
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Many people's workouts consist only of a cardiovascular type with little if any resistance training or weight bearing training added to it. Some think that aerobic exercise alone is more than enough to facilitate the effective burning of fat from their body. And some think that adding weight training to their routine is only for adding bulk. In fact, adding more muscle strength and tone via some type of resistance training will actually help burn fact more effectively... even while you are at rest.
According to a study by the Fitness Products Council and Sporting Goods Manufacturers, the number of people lifting free weights has increased 76 percent in the past decade. Right now, weight lifting is among the most popular sports in North America. This change is for the best because cardiovascular activity combined with weight training will result in much more effective fat loss. Cardiovascular exercises will raise muscle metabolism during the activity and for a short time after the exercise session.
Weight lifting exercises, on the other hand, will raise your muscle metabolism during the exercise session, and for a long time after the exercise session. Some high intensity trainers have even seen their metabolism rise for several days following their training session.
Adding weights or resistance to your exercises will cause your muscle to become not only stronger but leaner as well. Your actual muscle development will take place during the periods of recovery time. It's important to be mindful of this as you work your schedule. Allow for sufficient rest period between putting your muscles under a workout load.
When adding weight to an exercise routing it is important to know what you are going to put your muscles through. Whether your goal is to build muscle strenght and size or to add tone and some shape, when putting your muscles under a workout; muscle tissues are initially broken down. It is during the recovery period and as a result of recovering from the stress that the muscle tissue becomes stronger. Hence, the importance of the recovery period being built into your workout schedule.
Know that during this recovery period, your muscle metabolism is still going to be using and burning energy. As such, this is a great time to compliment your weight training with off days cardiovascular activity. The high repetition of alternate cardiovascular workouts will tire the body differently and will serve to even more advance the fat burning process.
The point is to combine a weight lifting routine with a good cardiovascular workout to increase muscle metabolism and total fat burning ratio.
This helps illustrate one of the reasons you should try to avoid weight loss via starvation or quick intense weight loss through some miracle diet. This type of weight loss strategy will many times result in muscle mass, which in turns lowers the muscle metabolism and only makes it more difficult to lose the weight in the long run.
In fact, this type of weight loss will probably just be re-gained. For the best and healthiest long term results you should engage in a program of weight training alternately combined with a cardiovascular type workout. Such an approach will increase your muscle tone and mass while all the while increasing muscle metabolism. This approach, although not as quick, is much more permanent and much more healthy.
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