Proper Exercise Will Give Women The Bodies They Desire
Most women when asked about their health and fitness goals tend to say the same things. They would like to lose weight, tone up muscles, become stronger and increase energy.
But they often try to achieve these goals by focusing on ‘cardio’ type activity because they do not understand how their metabolism (the body’s engine) works and do not realize that this is the key to achieving all of these goals. Long, slow endurance types of activity like walking, jogging or cycling are low intensity and are recreational ‘fun’ activities. They do not have the capacity to work the major muscle groups through their ranges of movement under a load. And this is what is needed to rebuild lost muscle tissue and speed the metabolism. Lean muscle tissue cannot be maintained or increased with ‘cardio’ type activity alone. Modern exercise techniques focus on what happens after the exercise session is over where as outdated exercise methods only focused on what happened during the session. Research has uncovered information about the metabolism and what drives it and this comes down to the amount of toned muscle tissue you have. Our bodies are made up of 50 percent muscle tissue so keeping it in good ‘metabolic health’ makes sense if we are to look and feel our best. To keep muscles toned and strong a proper exercise program containing mostly strength training exercise is what is needed to increase fat burning. Strength training increases the amount of toned lean muscle tissue in your body which requires more calories to be burned both during exercise and throughout the rest of your day and night. As the years go by if you are not doing enough muscle building and maintaining activity you will be losing muscle tissue at the rate of around one half pound per year. This will have a negative affect on the way you look and feel and your overall health. Here is an example. If you are 50 years old and you have lost 20% of your muscle, you might be expending 200 calories less per day. So even with ‘cardio’ exercise and a moderate diet, if you are not strength training you will have gained weight and/or fat. Your weight may stay the same, but your body composition will change (muscle/fat ratio) you will have more fat, less muscle. And the best way to prevent this is by doing something many women may not be comfortable with – strength training exercise. Many use the excuse they will ‘bulk’ up. But have no fear it is VERY hard to get really muscular. Even men have a hard job and they have the hormones that women don’t. If you ever appear bulky it is because your eating does not support you becoming lean and slim. The fat is the bulky bit not the firm muscle underneath. That is your friend and will help you to get the body of your dreams if you let it. Strength training will give you a firmer, leaner, more toned shapely body with a healthier ratio of lean body weight (muscle/fat) and will give you results that ‘cardio’ activity never ever can.
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