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Anaerobic
Exercise
Anaerobic
Exercise versus Aerobic Exercise
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Many
have heard the term aerobics exercise
but you may or may not have
heard the term anaerobics. Aerobic means with oxygen
while anaerobic means without oxygen. While doing aerobic
exercises, your muscles need oxygen to perform efficiently and fat
needs oxygen to burn. Aerobic exercises give you the best fat
burning benefit.
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Although aerobics are best for burning fat, anaerobic training will
give you the best benefit for building and toning lean
muscle. The more lean muscle you have the higher your basal
metabolic rate. Which in turn means you will be burning more
calories during the day and night.
Strength
Training
The most common anaerobic exercise is
strength training.
Although most people think of strength training as weight lifting there
are other types of strength training exercises.
Doing resistance
band exercises are a great way to provide resistance to your
muscles and building strength.
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You can also build muscles with dumbbell exercises. These are
also a great alternative to weight lifting. You can purchase
various sizes and weights and get either fixed weight dumbbells or
adjustable weight dumbbells.
Other Exercises
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Most
people associate anaerobics with just strength training
like weight lifting, however, certain exercises that many think of as
aerobic are really anaerobic exercises. For instance,
sprinting or jump roping can be anaerobic exercises if performed at an
extremely high intense level.
This is where some of the confusion comes from. Most people
assume running is an aerobic exercise, and if done at a certain
intensity level it will still require oxygen, therefore remaining an
aerobic exercise.
But as the intensity level increases, and
the body cannot supply sufficient oxygen, it will switch to using a
higher percent of carbs and a lower percent of fat for fuel.
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When these types of exercises are done at an extreme level they
become an anaerobics workout.
Exercises like sprinting are providing benefits of building muscle,
burning calories and strengthening your heart.
Read this article on Interval Training that mixes anaerobic exercise and
aerobic exercise.
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to Aerobics
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Circuit Training
Get
the most out of your strength training exercises by doing a circuit
training. This form of workout combines strength training with
spurts of high intense aerobics.
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