• Makes you do both aerobic and anaerobic activity.
Aerobic exercise is that requires your body to use up a lot of oxygen. Anaerobic exercise is what triggers the anaerobic, non-oxygen related metabolism in your muscles, forcing them to grow bigger and stronger. You will achieve both if your exercise routine
involves occasional bursts of physical intensity of no more than 2 minutes at a time, in which you temporarily reach your maximum cardiovascular workout heart rate.
Plus, here are a few other reminders regarding exercise:
• Always do a warm-up. No matter what your current physical fitness level is, always do a warm-up. Your body is a biological race car that needs time to start up before it runs. A warm up is any mild physical activity that slowly raises your heart rate right under the fat-burn level, and which literally makes your body “warm up” a little. Resist the urge to hurry up or skip your warm-up, or you’ll do your body harm. For some reason, men are particularly notorious for going into their exercise “cold”, and frequently end up with physical injuries due to sudden intense movements. (Guys, you have been warned, so listen up.) Be patient and resist urge to rush into your routine.
• Never exercise more than you have to or are able to at the moment! In contrast, ladies are prone to overextending
their time for exercise, and end up with physical injuries to due to prolonged wear and tear. (Ladies, listen up as
well.) Again, be patient, for tomorrow is another opportunity to exercise and improve your body’s condition. You can’t cram it all in one day.
• There is no such thing as a “spot fat-burn” exercise. The human body has some pretty stubborn metabolic programming. You can make your body emphasize development of a particular set of muscles (e.g. chest area and biceps), but you cannot make it emphasize losing
fat in a particular spot. There is no exercise that can make your body burn fat away from any particular spot. Every time you engage in fat-burning activity, your body will choose which fat stores it will draw from. Depending on your genetic makeup, your body can either uniformly withdraw energy from all your stored fats, or concentrate more in a particular area. For most of us, it’s the latter case. For instance, you might find that, after a few
months’ worth of exercise, you’ve lost fat in most of your body except that darn beer belly. Don’t be discouraged, however. With continued exercise, eventually your body will find less fat to work on in its “favorite” spots, and will be forced to draw from other areas. In time, you will whittle down all your fat cells to miniscule sizes.