The Key To Losing Fat and Keeping it Off
I've said it over and over and over again that the key to losing fat, reshaping your body and keeping the fat off is weight training and not aerobics. This viewpoint has been confimed by a new study in The Journal of Anthropological and Applied Human Science.
The study compared three different groups - a non exercise control group, an aerobics only exercise group and a group that combined aerobics and weight training.
As I would expect, the aerobics and weight training group lost significantly more subcutaneous abdominal fat and viceral fat (the
deeper fat within the abdominal region) than the other two groups.
If you only perform aerobics in your fat loss program, at least half of your weight loss will be muscle. This will slow down your metabolism, which will make it progressively harder to lose weight and will eventually contribute to you putting that fat back on and more since your body will be less able to handle calories efficiently.
Weight training will boost your metabolism since muscle is metabolically active. For each pound of muscle you add to your body, you will burn an additional 35 to 50 calories a day, while doing nothing! This makes it much easier to keep the fat off once you lose it.
In addition, with aerobics only, unless you are genetically blessed, you will just end up with a skinny fat look once you lose weight.
Want an effective and convenient, yet short, cardio routine? Try jump rope. Yes, you can get a better cardio workout and burn more calories using a simple jump rope than you can from the equipment in your gym that cost thousands of dollars.
Jump roping works every muscle in the body, burning more calories than most lower body dominant exercises such as steppers, bikes and treadmills.
see yaaa in the gym.............