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Why Cardiovascular Exercise isn't Everything it's Cracked Up To Be

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It is pretty much widely know that exercise is essential for weight loss and muscle gain, since more calories must be burned than consumed in a day to lose weight. Also, the muscles must be worked in order to gain mass, yet there are many misconceptions and myths about the best way to lose weight and gain muscle mass at the same time. There is, however, a wrong way to try and achieve this goal, and that is by participating in only cardiovascular exercise.

Cardiovascular exercise is a tried and true way to help somebody lose weight. However, it is not the best way or the only way. Losing weight through cardiovascular exercise alone requires a great deal of time spent and depending on your intensity and time spent, it can be a slow and dragged out process. Additionally, by doing only the same exercises over and over, you and your body can both reach a plateau where you no longer see any effective improvements.

Cardiovascular workouts can take a long time to get noticeable results. Not all of us have the time to spend half of our lives at the gym; it takes half an hour at least to even begin buring calories in a cardio workout.

Of course, cardiovascular exercise is good for your heart. However, it can be a detriment to your joints. Intense cardio exercises can place a lot of strain on your joints - this can result in joint pain and increase your chances of developing arthritis down the road. These intense cardio workouts also tend to leave your muscles tired and sore, which means it takes longer before you can work out again.

In order for cardio to be beneficial, it needs to be done on a daily basis. That does mean seven days a week for at least an hour at a time, which can leave the body feeling tired, sore, and unable to perform the next day. This is essential since the body is used to the high intensity workouts, and can actually lead to weight gain if not practiced on an every day basis.

With cardio exercises, one must get into what is known as the fat burning zone if you want to see any real results. Calories are burned to some extent with any kind of exercise, but it is next to impossible to burn fat while you are exercising at low intensity. Thus the fat burning zone is very hard fro newcomers to get into; this is a very fast pace which is required.

While cardio exercises have always been touted as weight loss programs, they have never been touted as muscle builders. You are working your muscles in a different fashion, and usually only the lower half of your body is receiving any kind of stimulus. Running or riding a bike for example, don't involve your upper body at all and while they will make your legs stronger, it will be hard to actually put on additional muscle.

However, you can get the benefits to your cardiovascular system without actually doing a cardio regimen; you don't have to run for miles to work out your heart and lungs, you don't have to harm your joints and you don't have to do long workouts each and every day. Turbulence training can give you all of the benefits of a cardio workout program - without all of the disadvantages.
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