Training and Weight Loss - Are You Making This Mistake?

The gym is one of the most popular and probably the most appropriate place to go when we want to loseweight. Training and weight loss is aided by modern equipment and sophisticated machines, all there to help you lose pounds and get slim. But do we use them correctly to lose fat? Do we make most of our time in a gym? Do you spend ages walking, cycling or working out on the cross-trainer and still struggling to lose weight?

Well, there may be a few reasons why, and one of them could be surely the intensity of your workout. Sorry girls, but this is mainly about you now. I have seen many times people bringing a book to the gym, sitting on a bike and pedalling.  In most of the cases the speed was comparable speed of a child who is just learning to ride it. This is not to mention the situation when being carried away by a very interesting book, people stop cycling at all! Obviously I like a good book too, but if training and weight loss is your aim, then reading in the gym might not be the best place to do it.

Poor workout is often the key factor in slow or no weight loss. Unfortunately, information on the machines regarding workout intensity might be quite misleading. When we look on the cardiovascular equipment available in our gyms most of them provide us with a lot of information about the training zones. For a common gym user most of this information might be not even very clear-apart from the one “weight-loss zone” or “weight-loss programme”.

From my point of view, it is just another marketing trick, good enough to influence one’s workout. Many fitness experts and exercise specialists are continuously debating on the best intensity of the workout for training and weight loss. We recommend following the old school-quality not quantity and advise my clients to leave the comfort zone to see the real results, which is also advised in Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle.

It is true indeed, that low-intensity aerobic exercises use mainly fat as energy source but from weight-loss point of view it does not really matter where the calories are coming from, as long as we lose them.

The main tip in weight loss here is to increase the calories expenditure. Of course, this is a simplified way of thinking but let’s have a look at the following example to understand the physiology and nature of weight loss a bit better.

A young female trains every day on the treadmill for 30 minutes in order to lose weight. One day she walks with intensity 50% of her maximum heart rate. She burns 220 kcal and half of them come from fat (110 kcal). The next day she runs for 30 minutes with intensity 75% of her maximum heart rate burning 332 kcal where 33% come from fat which makes 110kcal.

As we can see, in both cases she burns the same amount of fat; however, during the run she burns about 50% calories more than during the walk which compliments more effect training and weight loss program.
So don’t be afraid to leave the “weight-loss zone” to lose fat faster with your training and weight loss schedule, drop the books and opt for a more intense workout today! Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle will teach you the right mix or nutrition and exercise. Click here to check it out.