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Thursday, March 26, 2009

What are the Best Cardio Exercises for YOU to Stay in Top Shape?

By Thong M. Dao

In order for cardio exercises to work, we need to understand how they work. A cardio exercise program allows the body to burn off fat. But we've always wondered what is the best cardio exercise that burns the most fat. Is it high intensity, or low?

Scientists found that high impact exercise enables the body to burn glycogen which is a kind of carbohydrates. The body stores glycogen in the liver and muscles and will use it for energy. It's also believed that under a low impact exercise, the body burns a lot of fat.

Unfortunately, researchers were not completely correct. To this day, there are more overweight people than ever though they exercise with low intensity. Why is it?

The scientists were right when they said the human body burns more body fat during low intensity cardio training like walking or swimming. But during a high intensity exercise such as running, the body will burn a lot more calories. Even if some of the calories burnt are from glycogen, there are still many fat calories burned as well.

But that's not the end of it. When you run out of glycogen, the body will use carbohydrates from food to recharge the battery, rather than turn them into fat. That means exercises which burn glycogen will help prevent you from storing fat.

High impact cardio exercise increases your metabolism. Even after you're done with your training session, your metabolism will continue to stay active. And you'll still burn fat for many hours later.

However, this is not the case with low impact cardio exercise which will not boost your metabolism that long. In short, chances are high intensity training helps burn more body fat than low.

In order to utilize both low and high impact cardio exercises, we need to put them together in a routine. For example, walk for about 5 minutes, then power walk (almost jog) for the same amount of time.

Continue to rotate afterward until you're finished. For the best cardio exercises, I recommend you do a continuous routine of 15 minutes or more. If you do not like walking, you can use a cardio exercise machine.

Burning fat is not everything cardio exercise can do. The best thing is that it keeps your energy level high.

I have an important message for newcomers. Start slowly and pace yourself, you do not want to get exhausted, do you? Take on your cardio exercise program today and stay in top shape! - 17274

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