| Weight loss can be explained very easily. If you burn | | | | onset of diabetes and prevents other health problems. |
| more energy than you take into your body, there will | | | | However, aerobic exercise by itself cannot help you |
| be less energy balance. As a result you body will start | | | | lose weight. The reason behind this is the small amount |
| burning up the stored energy and this causes weight | | | | of calories being burned for the time one spends doing |
| loss. Many people opt for aerobic exercise to lose | | | | aerobic exercise. If you do heavy aerobic exercise |
| weight. While it is true that you do lose weight doing | | | | and reduce your calorie intake, you will lose muscle |
| aerobic exercise, the exercise by itself is not enough. | | | | mass. This is because your body starts using proteins |
| There is no doubt that you do burn calories when you | | | | from the muscles to manufacture carbohydrate. This is |
| do aerobic exercise but the amount of calories burned | | | | not at all good. If you lose muscle mass, you lose the |
| is very little. For example, when you jog for 30 minutes | | | | ability to burn calories and this results in lower |
| you burn around 200-300 calories which is equivalent | | | | metabolism and you gain weight very easily. |
| to a large apple. A hamburger contains 500-600 | | | | Therefore, aerobic exercise for weight loss is not |
| calories and this means that you would have to jog | | | | feasible. You should aim to do light aerobic exercise to |
| much longer to burn calories from a hamburger. | | | | burn calories, eat a balanced diet, reduce your calories |
| This does not mean that aerobic exercise is not good | | | | intake, increase your protein intake and do some |
| for you. On the contrary. Research has shown that | | | | weight training to build muscle mass. This is a |
| aerobic exercise reduces the risk of heart disease, | | | | permanent solution for sustained weight loss. |