Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Cardio VS Weight Training . The recommended one .

Let’s first take a look at the typical way that many people workout and compare it to a more effective full body approach. In their quest for getting lean, many people will focus a large percentage of their workout on cardio work and then work one or two muscle groups per day for weight training. Lets take an example of a person who is doing some cardio sessions and light weight training like biceps , triceps .Doing this he isnt elevating his metabolism and the effect doesnt stay for hours and days to come .

Now let’s compare that workout to an intense full body training routine comprised of some multi-joint lower body exercises such as squats and deadlifts combined with multi-joint upper body exercises such as bench presses, pull-ups, and bent over rows, and finished off with a couple challenging ab exercises.

 This type of workout has stressed pretty much every muscle in your entire body as opposed to just a couple of small muscle groups. This in turn creates a metabolic environment in which your body must do more work (repair more muscle) to recover from the full body workout. Hence, your RMR is increased to a greater extent and for a longer period of time by doing the full body workout comprised of multi-joint lifts compared to the cardio and single joint exercise based workout.

If you’re working out 3-4 times per week utilizing the full-body training style, you’re essentially increasing your RMR 24/7. In addition, as mentioned previously, you also get a much better fat-burning and muscle-building hormonal response from your training when you focus mostly on big multi-joint exercises working large portions of the body. The result of all of this is that you get leaner quicker, provided that your diet is in order.

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