Written on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 by Miroslav Nikolov
Why not every physical training will help you lose weight
Yes. No matter how hard your physical training is, it won’t help you lose more weight if you don’t know when, how, why.
You know about power-lifters. They are very strong, their trainings are very hard, but most of them are fat.
So, you can load up your muscles to the high level, but still be fat. Why it is like that – BECAUSE weight loss training and weight training are two different concepts.
You won’t benefit from weight training, because it is very fast physical activity with many rests between sets. It is anaerobic training.
“Many rests” – this is the key. Each rest stops fat loss process. After your rest you continue with another set. But this won’t help you again.
The time to finish your set is less than the time for rest. Less activity time much rest time. This is the best for muscle gain, but it is worse for weight loss.
Another reason why not every physical training will help you lose weight:
Weight training involves muscles. Muscles don’t use oxygen during sets or during rests. This is bad, because if there is no oxygen, there is no weight loss process.
Conclusion:
You need long physical training with moderate temp. This will involve oxygen into the process, because your muscles pressure is not so big and let you hold it up for long time.
When you eat carbohydrate rich foods before training, no matter what kind of training you will do after that, it won’t be productive weight loss training.
Why. Because your muscles will start to use carbohydrates for energy. Even if you do cardio training it won’t help you again. Every weight loss training is also muscle training, so you will need do burn all carbos for energy and after that start burning fats.
Conclusion:
Escape eating before physical training especially carbohydrate rich foods. This will trigger immediate weight loss process.
BUT. If you do your cardio after weight training and keep your muscles, then you can eat before weight training.
Don’t worry about consequences. Your muscles will burn all carbohydrates from the food and your cardio will burn only the fats.
Yes it’s great. But we have to continue.
Because after weight training you are tired and your muscles need stuff for recovery you probably will eat a lot of junk food.
This once again will stop weight loss process and trigger anabolic process.
An anabolic process will start to recover your muscles, but also as a side effect more fat store will start.
You have to be in catabolic process if you want to reduce your weight, but also not every catabolic process is good.
Example:
- If you finished your physical training and don’t eat food for recovery you still will be in catabolic condition, but your muscles will use muscle cells for energy not fats. Organism, Organism.
Conclusion:
Eat after training, not before.
Something about muscle fibers.
Muscle fibers are “fast” and “slow”. Most fitness trainings stimulate “fast” muscles. These trainings are fast. You don’t want fast trainings.
So, you have to train your “slow” muscles. Longer weight loss training with moderate temp is perfect for that purpose.
My experience shows me that combination between different kind of physical trainings will help you even more.
Combine weight training and weight loss cardio training. Weight training will help your muscles to use more energy and cardio will help you burn more fats.
So, experiment. Try different training combinations and you will find what is best for you. Once you did that it will be matter of time to achieve your goals:)
Footnote:
“Don’t forget that physical training is better than no training at all. This is right direction.”
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