AEROBIC OR CARDIO EXERCISE VS ANAEROBIC WEIGHT TRAINING FOR FAT LOSS OR WEIGHT LOSS

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OBESITY /OVER WEIGHT AND FAT LOSS is the main concern and point of discussion now a days. Everywhere its going haywire and all are trying everything to get those belly flat and lose those abdomen fat around your waist,thigh and triceps etc.

Many are spending hours on cardio or aerobic running over treadmill and cross-trainer to loss those extra calories to lose or burn fat, but is that one or two hour exercise is optimum for your fat loss or those few hours exercising and running on cardio equipment will get you accomplish the goal of firm and flat six pack abdomen .

Then the answer is yes and no also, In reality running on cardio causes you calorie and weight loss but thats muscle loss and not fat loss. Fat loss starts afterward those calories that you burn comes from meal that you had taken before the exercise and after that stored muscle energy source which is glycogen,then in the end it comes from fat deposit. Now the switch of energy transfer from muscle to Fat is very gradual which is again a point of discussion.

Weight Training or anaerobic exercise is used to train muscles all over the body with isolated or compound exercises. when we train our muscles with anaerobic exercises then blood circulation around that area will increase for nutrition and to wash off residue of anaerobic respiration. Ultimately muscle mass will increase with anaerobic exercises which will lead to increase the BMR.

BMR is the basal metabolic rate or energy required by body to sustain as example to stand,sit,sleep etc. we need energy all the time to power our muscles and organs to pump and keep us alive.Our Muscles need energy all the time to work and to keep us in equilibrium ,so by increasing muscle mass we are constantly using more energy per hour as compare to few extra  calories burn during Cardio treadmill or crosstrainer running .

Example if Person A with 1400KJ BMR burns 500 calories in one hour on treadmill and cross-trainer, whereas person B with same 1400kj BMR burns 300 Calories on weight training ,after four week of training Person A loses 1800 gm weight but Person B loses 4000gm weight because he increase his muscle mass eventually in one month and which increases his BMR and thus not only during exercise he is burning more calories all the time while eating,standing,sleeping etc. 

so In the end even-though Person A work harder and lost more calories during its cardiac aerobic workout duration which is one to two hour of exercise, but Person B lost more calories eventually in a long period here in one month even though his anaerobic weight training exercise made him lose lesser calories during the workout duration that is one hour but it increases muscle mass and muscle adaptability to work efficiently which causes increase in muscle mass and thus increase BMR ,resulting in more calories lost during day to day life functioning.

So for aerobic cardio exercise you can burn calories for one or two hour per day and which comes around maximum of 12-14 hours per week,whereas in muscle building anaerobic exercise even though you are burning lesser calories during those 12-14 hours per week but by increasing the muscle mass and resulting BMR(basal metabolic rate) you are burning much more calories per unit time for remaining 156 hours per week, so think about this aspect also before going or joining anything for fat loss.

 Its always a combination of both aerobic and anaerobic exercise which result maximum,so always mix cardio with weight training for muscle building and fat loss along with conditioning.