Aerobic versus Anaerobic Exercise

By now you know that aerobic exercise burns fat, but doing to much aerobic activity breaks down amino acids and that those amino acids are coming from muscle tissue, which is causing us to lose muscle!

There is another term we need to become familiar with and that is anaerobic exercise. Anaerobic means without oxygen.

Aerobic you have probably guessed means with oxygen. Anaerobic exercises are activities in which you become exhausted very quickly (sprinting, weight training).
Anaerobic activities build muscle What you should know? Aerobic exercise burns fat, Anaerobic exercise develops muscle.

Fat is burned inside the muscle! As you develop more muscle you have the ability to burn more fat when you do the appropriate amount of cardio activity. Good new right? Well for most yes, for other the image of getting big is not something they want to visualize.
Let’s examine the commonly used phase, “I don’t want to get big I just want to get toned”. Take a deep breathe, “toned” means growing muscle. What happens here is as the muscle grows it utilizes more fat in the body as the fat in the body disappears and the muscle grows you begin to see definition- Muscle Tone!

So how do I build muscle? In order to build muscle, you must ask your muscles to do more than they are used to, and then nutritionally supply the muscles with proper nutrition for growth.

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In True Health,

Trevor Folgering
President
Achieve Fitness Canada