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High Intensity Fitness Vs.
Slow Calorie Burning:
Which Is Best for Weight
Management?
Many people get confused
about how to best manage healthy weight levels. They are unsure if
low-intensity workouts that utilize fat for energy are superior to high-intensity workouts that use carbohydrates for fuel. Of course, any
workout is a good workout. That definitely beats the alternative of
remaining sedentary and burning
no calories at all! However, the question
still remains as to whether we should approach our exercise sessions with
vigorous intensity - or in a more reserved manner.
Why do most people exercise?
While the benefits of exercise are virtually unlimited in number, most
people still report exercising in order to burn calories - plain and simple.
They want to manage their weight. For any number of personal reasons, they
are dissatisfied with their bodies and their health levels. They are
becoming concerned, as they age, that they are doomed to experience the
development of many preventable diseases. And in most cases, they are
absolutely justified to feel this way. The fact is that exercising is
profoundly important to human health, happiness and longevity. Still, people
are most often exercising in an attempt to lose weight,
shed fat - in a
nutshell, to burn calories.
High Intensity Fitness Vs. Slow Calorie Burning
It is a misconception that working out with high intensity levels does not
burn fat. It is a misconception that working out with low-intensity levels
for longer durations burns fat more efficiently. The truth of the matter is
simple:
When you train at low-intensity levels of less than 70% of your maximum
performance rates, you will be using stored fats as your primary source of
energy. That is a good thing! So don't let anybody tell you that a
low-intensity workout is not beneficial. However, when you keep your
intensity levels high at 75% of your maximum performance rates or more, you
will ultimately burn more calories than while working out at lower intensity
rates.
You must create a 3500 calorie deficit in order to lose 1 pound of
weight.
Now, your body, and your scale, has no clue about the scientific differences
between high intensity workouts and low-intensity workouts. What will affect
the readout on your scale is simply the matter of calories that you burn -
the caloric deficit that you create. Nothing else. The ultimate goal for
weight loss and weight management is to create a negative
energy balance by
burning a maximal amount of calories. It is as simple as that.
Let's face the facts!
Most likely, those people who report believing in slow calorie burns - are
lazy. It's true. When you go into the gym, you need to pay particularly
close attention to your intensity levels. Stop resting so long in between
sets. Do more reps per set. Instead of spending 30 minutes on a
treadmill at
level one, opt to spend just 10 minutes on it at level seven. Intentionally
increase the intensity of your workouts and you will notice a significant
decrease on your scale ratings much more rapidly. The gym is no place to try
to be lazy. It is not meant to be a
social event. Just being at the gym,
going through lazy motions, will not as readily help you to achieve your
weight management goals. You have to try harder, stay focused,
expend more
energy, feel the burn - and create that calorie deficit that you claim to be
pursuing so diligently.
If maintaining a healthy weight level was an easy feat to accomplish,
this entire planet wouldn't be so drastically overweight!
So, while any workout's a great workout, you need to realize that by
stepping up your intensity, you're going to be far more successful at
reaching and maintaining your optimal weight level. Attack your workouts
like a rabid beast and burn more calories!
What is over training, and how can it
affect losing weight?
You must seek approval from your doctor
before starting any new diet.
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