 | Your Wasting Your Time
Time
and time again we hear the same questions from clients and I respect
the fact that you all want to know why we are having you do the things
you do in here. However, when the same people
ask the same question over and over again that tells us you did not
believe us the first time we told you or that you are looking for a
different answer. Forgive me for saying so but we are the experts, which is why you came to us in the first place. The stuff we tell you works! The one question that we hear the most is, "Why am I not doing any cardio?" First
of all, if you are alive you are doing cardio...If your heart is
beating and you are breathing you are doing cardio, simple. What
you probably mean is, "Why am I not doing aerobic exercise?" To answer
this question we must first look at your fitness goals. Typically this question comes from the clients who want to lose body fat. If
fat loss is your goal research is showing over and over again that the
last thing you should do is aerobic exercise, or as everyone likes to
call it "cardio." The reason for this is simple aerobic exercise does not help you lose fat, in fact it can cause you to gain fat. First
we should look at how aerobic exercise does promote health and why it
became so popular. Aerobic exercise promotes heath by simply increasing
your oxygen consumption. The counter to this is
that resistance training will have the same effect on your oxygen
consumption, however, resistance training has many more benefits
including lowering body fat percentage, increasing lean mass and
improving strength. Now
that we have eliminated the only reason to do it let us look at why
aerobic exercise is not a good choice for people who want lose body fat. Without getting too scientific, aerobics simply decreases your metabolism. That means you burn less calories. Aerobic training decreases your lean tissue (the good stuff) causing you to burn less fat. Aerobic training also makes your fat cells more insulin sensitive; which makes it easier to store more fat. Right now you are probably saying that this can not be true I have seen people lose weight from running or a step class or something like that. This is easily explained... If you have not been doing any form of exercise doing something, anything will cause you to burn more calories. This will result in a loss of weight. Now I want to be clear about this, I said loss of weight not fat. After
a very short period of time, your body will adapt to this extra calorie
burn and since you have not gained lean muscle tissue and have probably
actually lost lean muscle tissue your metabolism will lower, you will then gain back more fat. This should make it perfectly clear why aerobics is not a good choice for fat loss and will cause you to get fatter! | |
