Jesse Cannone
With obesity and disease increasing dramatically, galore fitness experts are recommending walking for weight loss and fitness. Some are even going so far as saying that walking is the best way to burn greasy and lose weight. I strongly disagree with this and am going to show you why walking is NOT effective at painful off body fat.
Yes, you read that correctly...
Walking is NOT hard-hitting at burning body fat and if your goal is fat loss you might be wasting your time. I am not saying that walking is not beneficial, I am saying that if fat loss is the direct goal, there are far better choices that will deliver far better results.
The primary benefits of walking are increased blood flow and circulation, built recovery, and a strengthened immune system. There are single reasons why close in not the best choice when it comes to fat loss. present are just a few:
- Walking does NOT burn a lot of calories
The lower the intensity of the activity or exercise the small the number of calories burned per unit of time. For example, you can burn much calories in 15 minutes of bicycling at a higher intensity level than you can in 45 minutes of easy walking.
- Walking does NOT result in a life-sized increase in metabolism
Another downside to walking is that because it’s generally low intensity it results in single a small increase in metabolism that will only penultimate approximately 1-2 hours after the walk. On the opposite hand, metabolism increases are larger and last longer (4-24 hrs or more) when you perform high intensity cardio workouts.
- Walking does NOT deplete muscle glycogen
Low intensity exercise like close does not deplete muscle glycogen levels and therefore, subsequent that day if you have unnecessary calories they will likely be stored as body greasy whereas if you deplete the glycogen the excess calories will primarily be stored in the muscles.
So why then do so many fitness and health experts recommend walking for weight loss? cardinal reason is that people don’t want to hear that they have to work hard so they figure whatsoever activity is healthier than none. other reason is that the body burns more fat for fuel when exercising at an simple pace, however, the total amount of energy used is so small that you end up burning off infinitesimal body fat. That’s also why when you choose the “fat burning” program on your treadmill or bike it has you exercise at any simple level. Yes, you’re burning fat, but so little that you’d have to exercise at that easy pace for hours and hours each day.
High intensity cardiovascular/aerobic exercise is much much effective in painful off the unnecessary body fat. In fact, several studies have been finished to prove this. In one study they compared cardinal group who did moderate level aerobics for 45 minutes with another group who performed higher intensity workouts for 15 minutes. They did before and after fitness testing including body greasy analysis and saved that the group who performed the high intensity aerobics lost nine times as much body fat!
Want much proof?
Compare the bodies of a walker, marathon runner, and sprinter. If you are not familiar with what a sprinters body looks like, it is very athletic and has infinitesimal body fat while on the opposite hand the body of a walker will likely have the opposite, infinitesimal muscle and much fat. The sprinter does little or no low intensity exercise and does primarily short woody bursts of work while the marathoner overtrains so untold they burn disconnected both the body fat and the muscle and that’s why they tend to look almost sickly thin.
So what should you do then if your main verifiable is to deciduous those excess pounds of body fat?
Two things:
- Perform some form of high intensity cardio 2-4 times per week
- Stabilize blood sugar to minimize the storage of new greasy
I know some of you by now are saying “I can’t do high intensity exercise, I have a bad knee” and don’t worry, I have a solution for you. The good news is that higher intensity is complete relative to you and your topical fitness level. For example, fast close up and falling hills may be high intensity for you... it complete depends. So don’t think that you have to start running or something like that. retributory slowly start to increase the intensity of your cardio workouts while also maybe decreasing the time because you can either work hard or you can work long.
Also, you can make almost some activity or exercise high intensity.... present are a hardly a examples:
- increase your speed
- use an incline or hills
- increase resistance
- perform intervals ( the most hard-hitting method)
Obviously, some exercises/activities or better suited than others but the point is if you want to burn more greasy and make your workouts as successful as possible you need to increase the intensity.
To learn more active high intensity cardiovascular exercise please check out the favourable articles:
Be sure to also check down my Burn greasy FAST! ebook and audio program here:
http://www.burn-fat-fast.com - it covers everything from cardiovascular training to strength training to nutrition and more.
As with some changes to your fitness program be careful and don’t over do it. Just because higher intensity workouts burn more fat, don’t think that you’ll get even healthier results by doing it everyday - that will quickly lead to over-training and a loss of muscle which will only make it even harder to burn disconnected the fat.
So if your direct goal is greasy loss, don’t inhospitable your time close and instead focus on progressive, higher intensity cardio to maximize the effectiveness of your workouts.
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