Are you Exhausted or Invigorated By Your Workout?
Which works better for you, exercising 2 hours a day 4,5,6 days a week or just 50 minutes twice a week?
I watch daily people training for a couple hours performing very undemanding exercises but a lot of them with little rest between. This group always looks exhausted yet believe they are getting a good workout. As I keep preaching this type of workout produces little in the way of quality muscle, it primarily promotes endurance. But this type of workout is exhausting as I’ve said and very uncomfortable for the very untrained and overweight.
Most importantly this kind of training has a limited post workout metabolic burn.
Yet most believe they must be exhausted to have had an effective workout.
This is not necessarily true.
The 2 workouts a week I promote is a base workout that anyone can reap benefits from, even athletes. I challenge anyone to go through my workout using resistances that are challenging for their fitness level, using all the largest muscles of the body, all compound movements and be able to go any longer than 45 minutes after my strategically sequenced 10 minute warm up!
Using the largest muscles of the body allows for maximum weight requiring a lot of energy. When you handle resistances that can only be performed in the 8 – 15 repetition range you are challenging the muscle fiber which promotes quality muscle
Muscle aids weight loss goals by controlling blood sugars. Exhaustive non-stop training challenges the energy systems of the body improving endurance but builds very little muscle. Sure you may get a little toning effect but it will be the result of a tremendous cost in time and energy which eventually leads to giving it up and weight gain.
The point is 2 hours of being active non-stop is not as effective as heavy resistance training that allows for rest in between sets which is much more comfortable for the very overweight, untrained person. The irony of what I’m explaining to you is that you also receive cardio benefits from this type of training. Any exercise that challenges the heart and lungs is cardio and will improve your endurance. When you use the large muscles of the body such as the chest, back and legs, large amounts of nutrients and oxygen are needed.
Ask yourself, an important point to consider is do you need the endurance of an athlete to perform your daily functions?
Muscle is the “fountain of youth” and training to stimulate muscle should be the goal of anyone trying to lose weight.
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