Most people who exercise to lose weight do moderate intensity aerobic activity at long duration cardio. This type of exercise is supposed to help lose fat fast, but it doesn't work. The entire aerobic industry has been built on this thought. Could an entire industry be wrong? Recent research has shown that moderate intensity aerobic activity doesn't work to burn fat. The big question is... Why? There are many reasons, but I'll focus on the two most important. What happens when you exercise on a treadmill or bike at moderate intensity is that your body does burn fat during the exercise. This sounds like what you want, but it isn't. Your brain is wired to keep you alive. So what you're doing is sending a signal to your body to keep fat around for the next time you exercise. It's unbelievable, I know, but what you really telling your body is that "you'll be doing this exercise again, so keep some fat around". It is true that you're burning calories during a workout, but as soon as the workout is over your body goes to storing fat again for the next one. Obviously, this is not what we want. What we want is to burn fat as fast as possible. The other thing that happens with medium intensity aerobic activity done several times a week is that your body becomes really good at it. Your training your body (lungs, heart, muscles, etc.) to become super efficient. You may be asking "What's wrong with that?". I know it sounds good to make your body efficient, but is not very good for you. What's happening is that you end up working within what you're good at, and never improve your aerobic capacity. This is crucial because your aerobic capacity is exactly how your body knows how to respond to all kinds of stress. When you diminish your aerobic capacity, as you do when you do these types of workouts, you can actually be hurting your long-term health, as well as not letting your body burns much fat as a can. Here's some good news. You can reverse these effects with high intensity resistance training. Here's some even better news. You'll probably actually get some of your time back, because these workouts only take 15 to 20 minutes on average, and you can view them as a couple times a week. These types of workouts will burn carbohydrates instead of fat during exercise, and will cause your body to burn its fat stores over the next 24 hours to replace the burned carbs that you use during exercise. Pretty cool, huh? Those are real exercises to lose weight. You must do what you're doing to make this effective. You must have intense workouts (not too crazy though) and you need to keep your rest periods between sets of exercises below 60 seconds. When you do these type of exercises to lose weight, you will be amazed by the results. Your body will start shrinking, because you're not just losing weight you're losing fat.
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