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Exercise Rountine
-Weight Loss-
There are many good reasons for exercising regularly, and burning calories is just one of them. The calories burned during exercise depend on the type of exercise, your body weight, the intensity of the exercise, your metabolism and the length of the exercise. Many exercises are particularly good at burning calories, including aerobics and bicycling. This article will show you how different exercises work at burning off calories.
Flexibility and muscle fitness is also important when it comes to exercising, but people who are trying to lose weight will benefit from spending more time in calorie-burning exercises.
Exercise burns calories by using up the energy that is provided by food. Calories become energy in our body. It is either used up (through exercise) or it is stored. When it is stored, it may become body fat. Participating in regular exercises burns the calories, instead of storing them.
Calorie-Burning Exercises
Every type of exercises burns some amount of calories. Even just breathing uses a certain amount of calories. Performing daily tasks such as walking to work, getting breakfast, doing housework etc, burn calories. However, some types of exercises use up more energy and therefore burn calories at a higher rate.
Strengthening Training
Many people who are exercising solely to lose weight may not spend much (or any) time on strength training exercises under the belief that only cardiovascular exercises will help them burn calories and lose weight. Although cardiovascular exercises will burn more calories per workout, strength training workouts can play a very important role in burning calories. Strength training improves muscle mass, which helps the body burn calories more efficiently. Participating in strength training will help the body burn more calories during other types of exercises.
Cardiovascular Exercises
Cardiovascular exercises are very good at burning calories as they use up a lot of energy. The more intense the cardiovascular exercise, the more calories will be burned. The amount of calories burned will depend on the type of exercise, the length of time, the intensity and your metabolism. Spending some time in strength training will help improve your metabolism so that you burn more calories when participating in cardiovascular exercises.
Several tricks can be used to decrease the time needed for cardio. One is to do intervals instead of finding your pace. For example, sprinting and then jogging is more effective than running alone. Intervals keep your heart rateelevated and your metabolism boosted.
Hope this is useful…..^^
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Healthy Lifestyle is a key to Weight Loss
-Weight Loss-
Alot of people think that in order to become healthy they must lose some weight. Actually the opposite is true. In order to lose weight, one must become healthy. The truth of the second statement can be seen in gyms everywhere, where people honestly do put in their exercise time and eat a diet of rabbit food, and still despite all their efforts, the fat does not budge, or not to the point expected for the effort put in. The frustration in these people is palpable. Their trainers that are giving them killer workouts are also frustrated.Well something is wrong here…..
First of all,we must understand how the autonomic nervous system (ANS) works. This is what runs our body behind the scenes, not under our conscious control. The ANS regulates our heart-rate, our respiration, our immune system, our temperature control, our organ function, our hormones etc., all in the background while we carry on with our life. There are three parts to the ANS – the sympathetic system, the parasympathetic system and the enteric system. For our purposes today, we will discuss the sympathetic, otherwise known as the “fight or flight” system, and parasympathetic or “rest and repair” system and their interaction.
The SNS and the PNS generally have opposite functions – when we are under stress, the sympathetic system raises our heart-rate, increases our respiratory rate, releases cortisol, our stress hormone to help us cope, shunts the blood from the digestive tract into the muscles so that we can either run away from or fight whatever is threatening us. If organ systems in the body are unhealthy and therefore stressed for one reason or another, or we are mentally or emotionally stressed, that increases sympathetic load as well. The sympathetic system by its very nature is catabolic, meaning it breaks down muscle tissue due to the increased levels of cortisol secreted. High-intensity physical exercise is also sympathetic in nature – the heart-rate goes up, respiration goes up, body temperature goes up, and cortisol is released into the blood stream.Remember…..? Previously, I have talk about how how cortisol turns blood sugar into fat? I’m not saying exercise is bad here, just that you have to deal with the threat first…..
When the threat is dealt with, the parasympathetic system slows our heart-rate and respiration back down, brings the blood back to the digestive tract so that we can digest our food, and works to repair any tissue damage, increases libido etc. Night time is when the parasympathetic system has lots of time to do its job, provided we go to bed early enough.
The sympathetic and parasympathetic systems should balance each other nicely, and in those people that have a balanced nervous system, high- intensity exercise will lead to fat loss, as the parasympathetic rest-time between workouts is when muscle tissue is
built.
Those that are unable to lose fat by doing regular high-intensity exercise may have a dominant sympathetic nervous system, and consequently, an inhibited parasympathetic system. There is too much systemic stress coming from somewhere, and for those people adding high-intensity exercise is counterproductive, as it adds to their sympathetic load pushing them even more out of balance. Anxiety is very common today, frequently based in financial stressors, poor or inappropriate diet and its consequences, and/or poor relationship stressors, but one does not need to be anxious to be in sympathetic overload. Anything that can be done to reduce the stressors is important for successful fat loss (and pain reduction). As for exercise, yes, it should be done several times a week, but choose exercise like Qi Gong, Tai
Chi, Yoga etc. Any form of exercise that is done slowly and with the breath, which will increase the parasympathetic system and help balance the ANS. Later, when the body is in balance and healthier, the fat will come off.
If you want to know if you are in sympathetic overload, which organ and glandular systems are stressed, and figure out what to do about it, find a Lifestyle consultant, he or she will give you advise on how to handle stuffs and this and that….. ^^
