Exercise Alone Won't Cut It
As I am out and about in the "real world" I encounter numerous people who are quick to exercise, yet slow to diet down in hopes of losing weight. Oftentimes a recommendation of lifting light weights at high repetitions is believed to burn intramuscular fat. While aerobic exercise supposedly trims thighs and reveals six packs.
In reality, when it comes to exercise, intensity is everything. "Get in, get it done, and get out" is the mentality that has worked for me over the past 14 years. Heavy weight lifting and anaerobic intervals are the blueprint of a fun and challenging workout that will stimulate your body to improve strength and leanness.
Fortunately, there's myriad research proving that diet is much more important than costly gym memberships andboring steady-state aerobic exercise.
Restricting one's intake of processed foods, carbohydrates, and sugars, is the easiest and most efficient way of losing body fat and gaining a healthy, lean, and strong body. Here's new proof:
" ...The primary objective was to examine whether the combination of diet and aerobic exercise (DA) or diet and resistance exercise (DR) is associated with greater improvements in metabolic risk factors by comparison to diet only (DO) in obese women. A second objective considered whether reductions in metabolic risk factors are related to concurrent changes in abdominal and/or intramuscular fat distribution...
...Significant reductions (P < 0.02) in body weight (∼10 kg or 10%) and in total, abdominal subcutaneous, visceral, and intermuscular fat were observed within each group. Fasting and OGTT insulin, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B also decreased within each group (P ≤ 0.02). The changes in the body fat and metabolic variables were not different across treatment (P > 0.05). Visceral fat alone was related to the metabolic risk factors both before and after the treatment...
...Weight loss was associated with reductions in metabolic risk factors in obese women. The improvement in the metabolic profile was not enhanced by the addition of aerobic or resistance exercise. The findings reinforce the importance of diminished visceral fat in the treatment of insulin resistance."
Diet, diet, diet...! You are what you eat.
In reality, when it comes to exercise, intensity is everything. "Get in, get it done, and get out" is the mentality that has worked for me over the past 14 years. Heavy weight lifting and anaerobic intervals are the blueprint of a fun and challenging workout that will stimulate your body to improve strength and leanness.
Fortunately, there's myriad research proving that diet is much more important than costly gym memberships and
Restricting one's intake of processed foods, carbohydrates, and sugars, is the easiest and most efficient way of losing body fat and gaining a healthy, lean, and strong body. Here's new proof:
" ...The primary objective was to examine whether the combination of diet and aerobic exercise (DA) or diet and resistance exercise (DR) is associated with greater improvements in metabolic risk factors by comparison to diet only (DO) in obese women. A second objective considered whether reductions in metabolic risk factors are related to concurrent changes in abdominal and/or intramuscular fat distribution...
...Significant reductions (P < 0.02) in body weight (∼10 kg or 10%) and in total, abdominal subcutaneous, visceral, and intermuscular fat were observed within each group. Fasting and OGTT insulin, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and apolipoprotein B also decreased within each group (P ≤ 0.02). The changes in the body fat and metabolic variables were not different across treatment (P > 0.05). Visceral fat alone was related to the metabolic risk factors both before and after the treatment...
...Weight loss was associated with reductions in metabolic risk factors in obese women. The improvement in the metabolic profile was not enhanced by the addition of aerobic or resistance exercise. The findings reinforce the importance of diminished visceral fat in the treatment of insulin resistance."
Diet, diet, diet...! You are what you eat.
Posted by Sheryl Blystone at 5/23/2009 7:00 AM 
Categories: Nutrition
Tags: research exercise workout Diet health fasting low carb
Categories: Nutrition
Tags: research exercise workout Diet health fasting low carb
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