Cardio Training Cardio Exercise
Most people at some time have wondered which cardio exercise is best to use. To put it in simple
terms, both low and high intensity exercises will help you to burn off excess body fat. The question here is which is the most effective to use to burn off more body fat.
When scientists first discovered that during intensive exercises, your body burns glycogen, which
is a form of stored carbohydrates, these are stored in your liver and muscles and used for energy. During low intensity exercises, your body will burn a lot of fat.
If your wondering whether or not it works, the answer is no, we know this because there are still a great deal of obese people struggling with their weight. Even though they are working out with low intensity routines, it still makes you wonder how it can be.
The scientists were right when they said the human body burns more body fat during low intensity
exercises like walking or swimming. During a high intensity exercise such as running, the body
will burn a lot more calories. Even if some of the calories burnt are from glycogen, there are still many fat calories burned as well.
To put the icing on the cake, when your store of glycogen gets low, the carbohydrates from your
food you eat will later get converted into glycogen to fill up the store and won’t be converted to body fat when they are left unused for energy.
High intensity cardio exercise will juice up your metabolism even after you have completed your
workout. What this means, is that your body will continue to burn body fat hours after you have
left the gym. This effect is nearly non existent in low intensity cardio or aerobic workout.
Accumulatively, your body will burn up more and more calories during and after you have finished a high intensity cardio exercise than it will with low intensity.
You can inject high intensity exercises into your cardio workout by introducing some interval training. You can walk for 5 minutes or so, then break into some jogging for another 5 minutes or
so. Then, walk briskly again until you have caught your breath and then sprint for a minute
before you walk again. From this point, simply alternate your running and walking for the next 15 minutes until you are finished.
One of the best things about cardio is the more you do it, the more energy you’ll have. Cardio
will help you to burn calories, although its more useful for keeping your energy levels high.
If you have never tried cardio before, you should give it a shot. If you like to exercise, you will
find cardio the best way to boost your energy and keep in top shape. If you are just starting out,
you will want to go slow and keep your cardio exercise in track as it is very easy to over exert yourself.
