Why High Intensity Training Doesn't Work For Weight Loss

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Obesity is on the rise every day. People eat and grow fat then they bring their children up in that poor eating lifestyle and the children gets fat also and they in turn pass on the fat lifestyle to the next generation. Today, we want fast foods and junks and we would rather eat out at restaurants than prepare our own food.
        In an attempt to lose weight, gym membership is always on the increase. And some people prefer Fitness centers. In any case, the believe is that the more I exercise, the more I shed. This is often not the case as we shall see below.


What is High Intensity Training
         Let me put it to you in a layman's way. An intense training is any work out that gets your heart beat up, increases body heat and cannot be continued after a relatively short period, usually 5 minutes. I am referring to high intensity training in the strict sense of what it implies. This post does not include the high intensity interval training. 


Why Doing High Intensity Work Out Will Not Help You Lose Weight 

     Definitely, you must be expending energy in the process of doing exercise. But just burning calories does not mean you are burning fat. I will get to this. But firstly, let me enumerate some cogent reasons to back up my claim

1) You burn calories and gain them back easily with high intensity training

 Imagine that you go to the gym house  with a bag. You have to keep your bag somewhere safe before you begin exercise but after you are done in the gym, you pick it up again, right?  It's the same with calories. High intensity work out makes you so burned out that you get home only to treat yourself again to a nice meal where you can easily recover the calories you burned.  Try it for a week and you will realise that you need to eat more to sustain your performance and that means not significantly loosing weight.

2) Tendency For Muscle Fatigue :- High intensity training can lead to soreness and fatigue of the muscles. Most people who want to lose weight are usually beginners who can easily get discouraged. When the soreness sets in, most usually stop training for some time leading to poor weight loss

3) High intensity work out generally require a fast means of energy supply which is usually not fat.
       Fat is not the first option your body considers when supplying energy to your muscles. It is usually glucose or glycogen. You need to have continued an exercise for a considerable amount of time before your body starts burning fat and high intensity training cannot be continued for a considerable long period.
    In this situation, you are burning calories but not really fat.

4) The more the exercise, the less the calories burnt:- This will shock many but the body adapts very fast. If you do a jumping Jack for the first time for five minutes, you burn quite a few calories but the more you do it, the more your body gets accustomed to the exercise, the less challenging it becomes and consequently, the fewer calories you burn.


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Dr. Neeraj Mahorekar said…
Nice article ... appreciate
28 May 2017 at 23:39
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