What makes aerobic exercise nothing but a waste of time?

Most of the exercisers at present still count on long duration moderate paced aerobic exercise as their key method to lose pounds promptly. But recent studies have shown that this is a big, I mean big mistake. Actually, you could say that the whole aerobics step-up of a few decades past was one of the biggest mistakes in the health and fitness industry. Why?

There are a variety of reasons, but I’ll focus on the two main things here. At the time you exercise at a moderate pace for long periods of time (as in the typically recommended percent of your target heart rate), your body burns fat during the exercise. Good as it sounds, it’s actually bad news.

This sends a signal to your body to preserve a certain amount of stored fat attainable for your next workout. You’re essentially telling it that it needs fat available to burn, given that you’ll be doing this exercise for a second time. So while we may be burning some calories in this exercise, after the exercise is over, our body begins storing up some fat for the next workout. Surely not what we’re searching for in terms of maximum ability to burn fat fast.

The other major worry with moderately paced aerobic exercise practiced several times per week is that it trains your body (heart, lungs, muscles, etc.) to become capable. Again, this may sound good, but what is actually occurring is bad for long term health. You are working only within your present aerobic limits, without improving your aerobic capacity.

This factor is important because your aerobic capacity is what defines how your body reacts in times of physical, emotional, and mental stress. If you diminish your capacity for work, as you do in this type of exercise, you’re reducing your long term health, not to mention a poor chance of burning fat.

The good news is, you can undo these effects by instead focusing your workouts on high intensity resistance training, with workouts that last 15-20 minutes on average, and can only be performed 2-3 times per week.

These workouts will burn carbohydrates instead of fat during the workout, and will cause your body to use its fat stores to replenish the burned carbs over the next 24 hours, after the workout is done! This type of work will also increase your reserve capacity and thus your ability to handle all types of stress, leading to lasting health and fitness...and 24/7 fat burning. Nice!

But the exercise must be carried out properly to be effective, and that means using sufficient intensity, and keeping your rest periods between exercises and sets down to 60 seconds or less.

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