Monday, April 11, 2011

Cardio vs weight training: Which is healthier? Which burns fat more efficient? (Part 2)

I've got a question for everyone reading this post right now. If you workout or exercise hard enough, but has a crappy diet accompanied with poor sleeping cycles and stress management, can you achieve optimum health and fitness? If the answer is no, both of us, have the same agreement and point of view.  

When one sign up a training program with a fitness instructor, he or she would expect to improve fitness level and health, lose some weight, and feels better overall. But, what is the success rate? Does doing cardio on the treadmill or long distance running or even cycling improves health and efficiently burn fat? 

How about a customized exercise or workout regime, which allows you to burn fat even while you are at rest? Sounds too good to be true? Well, folks, I'm not selling anything here. I'm not advertising nor making any profit for sharing this valuable information. All you need, is just 30 mins or each exercise session and not more then 3 times a week. Only total of 90 minutes duration in the whole of 7 days period. Better still, you don't have to hop on that treadmill for hours and hours hoping you could kill off the fat around the midsection belly. 

Very specific hybrid exercises are used to generate a cardiovascular stimulus in addition to a resistance-training effect, together the resistance and cardiovascular response trigger the specific hormones that burns fat, not muscle. They also create an afterburn that benefits the body long after the workout is over and amplifies the fat burning effects of low intensity activities like walking. Your body will be toned and firm. Gone with the flabby arms, saggy thighs and spare tyre around your midsection area.

Of course, besides this specific training or exercise program, you will need to coupled with customized diet, but it is simpler then you would ever think, and with stress management and proper sleeping cycles, you would be able to transform your body into a much improved state, healthier, stronger, fitter and less body fat composition.

Now, think about the difference between world class sprinters and marathon runners. Can anyone tell me what's the difference between these two class of athletes? Well, both are extremely lean, but sprinters look muscular and trim, robust and more explosive, while long distance runners look gaunt and thin. Sprinters engage in very short bursts of all our effort for seconds, at most, just minutes. They burn far fewer calories when training for and engaging in their sport. And yet, they have less body fat and higher amount of muscle mass. Why is that so?

Surprisingly, for marathon runners, who run for hours, have more body fat  and expend much larger amounts of caloric energy. Same applies to long distance cyclist, heard or Tour Da France? I'm sure some of you have heard of Lance Amstrong? Shouldn't this make marathon runners leaner than sprinters?

If aerobic-exercise(or cardio) and calorie cutting model was the final word on fat loss, there wouldn't be such a discrepancy between these two types of athletes. Now, has anyone ever climb up few flights of stairs and feel your legs are burning and breathless? In this case, I'm referring to people who often exercise in the gym. You might be asking yourself, you workout in the gym few times a week, how could that happen? You might feel fine after a workout session, but winded after few flight of stairs?

Let's talk abit abut muscle loss and fat loss. What is the difference? If you lose weight, you could be looking at just the 'numbers' dropping right in front of your eyes. But, do you know exactly what you lose? Is it fat? Or is it muscles? Some people think it's alright, as long as they lose weight. Well, if you study about human physiology and metabolic rate (BMR), you will know, it is totally different!

Well, muscle loss is disastrous for your metabolism, and the ability to burn fat becomes drastically reduced without it. A complete lack of toned and saggy skin, is a dead giveaway that he or she has been a serial dieter. Muscle tissue can inherently change its shape with exercise and diet. Fat tissue can't do this. When muscle tissues is increased with specific diet and customized workout program, the connective tissue is strengthened and pulls the skin tighter. Fat tissue, on the other hand, makes you bigger as you gain fat and smaller when you lose it, but fat cannot produce contour, shape and tone.

So, to some of the bodybuilders out there, wonder why the more you workout, the bigger you get, and the lesser lean body mass is produced? You are basically building a lot of fat tissues, accompanied with partial muscle tissues as well. Wonder why the midsection spare tyre does not come off and unable to get solid six packs? Simple, wrong workout routine, poor diet, bad sleeping cycles and stress management. So, eat whatever you want and think you can build a healthy lean fit body? I don't think so.


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