Fat Loss And Exercise: Facts And Fallacies

Intensive exercises will burn more fat

This is a fact. However, this will only happen if you do enough intensive exercises. You will need to do sufficient exercises over a period of time before you begin seeing any positive development. Many people are not up for very intensive exercises on regular basis but instead prefer less intensive exercises like jogging over a long time.

a) Low intensity cardio will burn more fat

If you carry out low intensity exercises which you can talk while performing, more fat will get burned to fuel the body. High intensity exercises like weightlifting and interval training utilizes carbohydrate's glucose to fuel the body more than fat. For intensive exercises, fat will get burned and used up if you are persistent and train long enough. However, it does not matter what the body uses to fuel itself; at the end of the day if the food you are taking has more calories or fat than you spend, the excess will be converted to fat and stored in the body.

b) To lose weight, you need to burn fat

This is true although the fat burning process is not directly targeted. It is important to understand how the body processes the fat it has stored. Fat is not stored permanently in the cells and is only brought down depending on the body's fuel requirements. When the body's blood glucose is low, fat will be used as the main fuel source. This takes place mainly in the morning. However, as soon as you grab toast or muesli for breakfast, the glucose in the blood system will rise and the insulin in the blood system will begin storing fats in cells. At this point, glucose will be the main source of fuel. This shows that the fat burning process is dynamic and can be manipulated.

c) You will burn more fat in weight training

The answer to this is just like point number one - If you do it long enough and more frequently. If you weight lift for a few days and have long rests in between, the process will not use up much fat stored in the body. To burn fat in weightlifting activities, you must perform the exercise frequently and over long periods like an hour for three days a week to start with. With time, this can be increased to two-hour sessions for six days a week.

d) Exercising before taking breakfast will burn more fat

Studies suggest that the amount of blood glucose in the morning is very low. Therefore, exercising before taking breakfast means that the body will use stored fat in the cells to fuel the body. Exercising on an empty stomach substantially reduces muscle and blood glucose, resulting in two things: The first is that more fat will be burned and the second is that the brain will send signals that you need to eat. In The downside is that as much as more fats are burned in the exercise, you will have a greater appetite and are likely to eat more during breakfast.

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