BASIC TRAINING THREE COMMON WORKOUT MYTHS BUSTED.Byline: Jeannette Jenkins Myth: I have to do cardio first to lose some weight, and then I can tone up with weights later. Myth-buster: You will burn more calories and have more of a physical change in your body if you incorporate cardio and resistance training at the beginning of your program. Weight training may add an additional 100 to 200 calories burned throughout the day, and it changes the shape of your muscles by adding tension to the muscle fibers so they have a nice firm and toned appearance. Aerobic base training, meanwhile, improves your cardio respiratory system respiratory system: see respiration. respiratory system Organ system involved in respiration. In humans, the diaphragm and, to a lesser extent, the muscles between the ribs generate a pumping action, moving air in and out of the lungs through a , which in turn helps you become more efficient at burning fat and recovering from resistance exercises. Aerobic base training is doing a cardio exercise like power walking, cycling or jogging jogging Aerobic exercise involving running at an easy pace. Jogging (1967) by Bill Bowerman and W.E. Harris boosted jogging's popularity for fitness, weight loss, and stress relief. for 20 to 30 minutes and gradually increasing the length of time and intensity as your body becomes accustomed to the exercise. Myth: All of my muscle has turned to fat. Myth-buster: Muscle and fat are two different tissues. When you are not exercising, your muscles decrease in size; when you overeat o·ver·eat v. To eat to excess, especially habitually. , excess calories pack away into fat (adipose adipose /ad·i·pose/ (ad´i-pos) 1. fatty. 2. the fat present in the cells of adipose tissue. ad·i·pose adj. Of, relating to, or composed of animal fat; fatty. ) tissue. Myth: I need to be sweating a lot to know that I am working hard and losing weight. Myth-buster: Sweating is your body's cooling mechanism, and it just means that you are really hot and your body needs to cool off. The weight you lose from sweating is just water weight. You can lose more than 5 pounds of water weight if you are exercising in extremely hot conditions. Excess heat and water loss leaves you feeling exhausted and sluggish -- and at risk for heat exhaustion heat exhaustion, condition caused by overexposure to sunlight or another heat source and resulting in dehydration and salt depletion, also known as heat prostration. The symptoms are severe headaches, weakness, dizziness, blurred vision, and sometimes unconsciousness. or heatstroke heatstroke, profound disturbance of the heat-regulating mechanism of the body, also known as sunstroke. It is characterized by extremely high body temperatures and sometimes by convulsions and coma. . Water is needed to burn fat, so if you are exercising in very hot conditions, make sure you hydrate hydrate (hī`drāt), chemical compound that contains water. A common hydrate is the familiar blue vitriol, a crystalline form of cupric sulfate. Chemically, it is cupric sulfate pentahydrate, CuSO4·5H2O. yourself and replenish your body. Don't be fooled! You are not burning extra fat. You are just losing precious water! CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) It's best to combine both a cardio workout and weight training to burn the most calories. |
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