Exercise

June 30th, 2009

 

Exercising for fat loss helps but it isn’t mandatory.

But if you do, please put some thought into muscle profile.

Jogging is great when you aren’t overweight.  Not only is it hard when you are, it doesn’t burn fat as well in most cases. This is due to muscle type.  There are muscles for jogging and muscles for sprinting, throwing or power lifting.

Chronically overweight people tend to have the second type. Take a look at this short press release by Dana-Farber (Harvard) that gives a good idea of the differences between the two. Note that this is the kind of sources I relied on to build my method, even though it is actually about cancer research and not fat loss.  

Not websites or ebooks written by people that were never fat - scientific ressources tend to have more reliable things to say on the subject.

It is important to note that exercising, like reducing calorie intake, should not be the priority when you start.  Increasing lipolysis, improving digestion and metabolic rate and controlling hunger are preparatory measures that insure that your efforts aren’t wasted when you get to dieting and exercising.  

These measures also give you the energy and motivation to get started – a much better foundation to rely on than a passing whim.

Understanding exercise leads you to choosing the type of exercises that take into account your specific muscular profile.  Those will be easier for you to do, more rewarding and ultimately more fun.

Finally, the best exercises to burn fat, those that trigger the right hormone signals and reactions (Pasteur effect or anaerobic glycolysis, depending on your profile, along with high peripheral lipolysis) are difficult to do in a gym.  There are much better things to do.

 Leisure sports are more fun and easier to stick to than a gym routine.  My personal favorites are karate, which I’ve practiced for about 20 years, and swimming which are perfect for my profile. A leisure sport will never be enough to get in shape, but it will help if you choose it correctly and once you are, it can become truly addictive!

 

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