Are Aerobic Exercises Effective For Burning Calories?
Aerobic fitness is achieved through aerobic exercises. If you have been exercising or been around people who exercise, you must have heard about both aerobic and anaerobic training. In simple terms the only difference between these two types of fitness exercising modes is in the rate at which the muscles use oxygen to produce energy during an exercise. When you exercise your muscles use oxygen to produce the needed energy for the exercise. In aerobic fitness exercise more oxygen is required to produce power than in anaerobic exercise. In other words, just think of aerobic fitness as running a road race and anaerobic as sprinting as hard as you can for as long as you can.
In aerobic fitness exercise, you will be able to burn carbohydrates into glucose which can then be used by the muscles to produce energy at the early stages of your weight loss activities. If you continue long enough to exhaust your carbohydrate reserve, your aerobic system will start to breakdown fats. The process of breaking down fats and lipids into glucose is slower and more complex and can significantly reduce your aerobic fitness exercise performance level. If you were running for example, you will see a significant drop in your mile split time. For athletes it is important to supplement your body energy demand during hard long activities sessions with power drinks or power bars. However if you are trying to lose weight, you don’t really need supplements.
Since aerobic fitness activities requires oxygen to break down carbohydrates and fats to produce power for an exercise, your aerobic capacity should be strong. In other words, your heart should be strong enough to supply the muscles with enough oxygen to be able to burn enough carbohydrates and fats. So how do you improve your aerobic capacity? Well, the simple answer is you have to continue doing aerobic fitness exercises. The more you exercise, the stronger the heart muscles will be and as a result, your oxygen intake will improve. Better oxygen intake means more oxygen for the muscles to work harder and longer and that means good news for weight loss. Regardless of the aerobic fitness exercise you choose, stronger muscles will make it all the fun.
So why does aerobic fitness and not anaerobic exercise help in weight loss? The explanation is really simple, you metabolize more fats for power in aerobic exercise but only use glycogen in anaerobic. It is really recommended that you exercise long enough at least three to four times every week to ensure that you are breaking down enough calories. This is because some people do very little and get frustrated when they don’t see any result from their aerobic fitness training. There is no hidden magic to it, the weight that you reduce is the difference between what you consume and what your body burns. Also remember that whatever extra carbohydrates that are not used for power during aerobic exercise gets concerted to fats and stored by the body. Of course you know what happens if there too much of those carbohydrates, we start gaining extra weight.
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