Aerobic Exercises
Aerobic Exercises
Aerobic makes You to Lose Muscle, but How…?
It is a scientifically proven fact that during aerobic exercise muscle proteins are broken down and used for energy. However, you are still breaking down and re building muscle tissue anyway. It's a process called "protein turnover." Your body is constantly alternating back and forth between anabolic (building) and catabolic (breaking down) cycles and that is absolutely a normal part of life. Your goal is simply to tip the scales slightly in favor of increasing the anabolic side and reducing the catabolic side just enough so that, you stay on the anabolic side and you gain or at least maintain muscle.
This fact of human physiology has often been used to scare people into not doing cardiovascular exercise for fear of losing muscle. When you fast overnight as you sleep, you lose muscle too, but that doesn't mean you should stop sleeping!
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Shying away from cardio completely because you think you'll lose muscle is a huge mistake. Though, it's possible for you to lose muscle from doing too much cardio, but it's highly unlikely to loose much unless you are trying really hard for it. Only excessive amounts of cardio would cause you to lose muscle because over-training tips the scale towards the catabolic side. It's difficult to generalize and pinpoint one specific amount as too much, but I think it's safe to assume that just about anyone could do up to 45 minutes of cardio a day, 4 to 7 days a week without losing any muscle - as long as the proper nutritional support is provided.
Trainer Jamie Leo has always been an adviser of lots of aerobics, even for the bodybuilders who are trying to gain muscle mass.
Aerobics can enhance your recovery from weight training by promoting blood flow and oxygen transport to your muscles. Aerobics forces oxygen through your body, increasing the number and size of your blood vessels. Blood vessels are the 'supply routes' that transport oxygen and nutrients to body tissues, including muscles, and carry waste products away for muscular growth, repair and recovery. The expansion of this circulatory network is called 'cardiovascular density'.
So, according to Leo, aerobics can actually enhance recovery from weight training and increase muscular growth by developing the circulatory pathways that provide nourishment to the muscles. Cardiovascular training is important for fat burning, for good health and for muscle-building.
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