The Benefits of Fat Loss to Optimal Health
Synopsis
You may have been advised, at one point or another, to perform aerobic exercise mainly for health and weight management. This type of exercise is important to strengthen your lungs as you increase the oxygen uptake in your body. This will be very beneficial as your cells need continuous supply of oxygen in order to function well.
An aerobic exercise is performed by doing an activity that will allow you to breathe in fresh oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide – a substance that is a by-product from energy usage. With this, you need to do series of light activities like walking, running, jogging, bicycling and many others.
It is also advised to do an aerobe exercise for 30 minutes or so, depending on how your body copes up. Then you can increase gradually as you have adjusted to it. The allowed time is just enough to target all the working muscle groups in your body while providing fresh oxygen to improve your circulatory system. With that, the target heart rate should be increased by approximately 8% so that your heart can efficiently pump up all the nutrients (including the oxygen) throughout your body. This is good to promote lean body mass and sweat the extra calories out.
The Heart Rate Factor
Oftentimes, you will reach an activity level wherein you increase the intensity of your exercise at its peak then slow it down gradually to catch your breath. This is called the aerobic curve and has to be avoided as much as you can. This is because you need to stay at a certain level of heart rate (as mentioned to be an increase of 8%) in order to successfully breathe in the needed oxygen that your body needs during the exercise.
Basically, it is good to maintain a heart rate while doing a light exercise rather than performing it intensely then slowing down after. If you are just starting to do an aerobic activity, it is good to start at a slow pace then increase duration and intensity as you cope up so that you can better avoid an aerobic curve.
Anaerobic exercise, on the other hand, is performed at a shorter time but with great intensity. With this, the body makes use of more calories but with lesser oxygen uptake. This type of exercise develops more muscles as it is based on endurance and strength.
This can be performed by sprinting, weight lifting, football, skiing and other intense sports. It also targets the muscles groups and is utilizing more blood and oxygen as compared to aerobic. In short, aerobic exercise supplies more oxygen but anaerobic exercise utilizes oxygen more.
Both aerobic and anaerobic are important to maintain a healthy weight but is dependent on your fitness goal. If you want to lose unwanted pounds and improve your health, then investing more on aerobic exercise is suitable for you. For those who are now well- adapted to exercise at a certain level, it may be time for you to improve your lean body mass and sexy figure with anaerobic exercise.
