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Friday, March 27, 2009

How to Stay in Top Shape with the Best Cardio Exercises?

By Thong M. Dao

Have you ever wondered which cardio exercise is the best? Is it low or high intensity exercise routine? In fact, both programs help us burn off body fat. Now let's find out which one is better for fat loss?

Under a high intensity cardio exercise, glycogen will be burned. Glycogen is a sort of carbohydrates stored in the liver and muscle. The body uses carbohydrates for energy. On the other hand, low intensity exercise burns a lot of fat. This is scientific theory.

If you're wondering whether or not it works, the answer is no because there are so many obese folks still around, even though they are working out with low intensity routines. It still makes you wonder how it can be.

The scientists were right when they said the human body burns more body fat during low intensity cardio training like walking or swimming. But during a high intensity exercise such as running, the body will burn a lot more calories. Even if some of the calories burnt are from glycogen, there are still many fat calories burned as well.

But that's not the end of it. When you run out of glycogen, the body will use carbohydrates from food to recharge the battery, rather than turn them into fat. That means exercises which burn glycogen will help prevent you from storing fat.

High impact cardio exercise increases your metabolism. Even after you're done with your training session, your metabolism will continue to stay active. And you'll still burn fat for many hours later.

On the other hand, low impact cardio exercises do not offer that metabolism benefit. So overall, high intensity workout probably burns more fat than low.

In order to utilize both low and high impact cardio exercises, we need to put them together in a routine. For example, walk for about 5 minutes, then power walk (almost jog) for the same amount of time.

Continue to rotate afterward until you're finished. For the best cardio exercises, I recommend you do a continuous routine of 15 minutes or more. If you do not like walking, you can use a cardio exercise machine.

And cardio workout not only burns body fat. More importantly, you'll experience high energy levels all the time.

For all newbies, be persistent and pace yourself, one step at a time. Be careful or you'll get burned out! It is also important to track your progress to see how well you have been doing. - 17269

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