Most folks believe that exercising with light weights with high repetition will tone and define your muscles to get that rock tough ripped muscular body. Since so several fitness personal trainers teach their clients that, so it ought to be true?
As summer approaches, several fitness enthusiasts will switch from muscle building routine to performing light weight high reps routine to cut away their body fat and to reveal their ripped muscular body. After all, it is shirt off time for the beach and poolside parties, isn't it?
Well, I am about to bust this popular light weight high rep to tone muscle myth. Did I hear you gasp? Excellent. This is since the myth is so well entrenched and a lie being told too frequently will generally be accepted as the truth.
To get toned and well defined muscles, you should lose body fat covering the muscles. Period. When you get rid of your body fat, your muscles will show via. You'll look sinewy and muscular. Obviously, that's provided that you've got built muscles below those fats.
Let me ask you, how could light weight high repetition exercises create muscles or melt away fat? There is no logic in this.
To create muscle mass, you have to do heavy weight low rep compound exercises, exactly the opposite of light weight high rep routine. To lose body fat, you have to do intensive cardiovascular exercises and eating correctly.
There is no such thing as spot reduction short of invasive medical procedures like liposuction. That indicates no matter how many crunches and side bends you do, the fat isn't going to come off your belly and neither will your love handles melt away.
So if you want to reveal your well toned and defined musculature, you've firstly to develop larger muscles and then subsequently cut your body fat. Medium weight high repetition compound giant set exercises may aid you burn far more calories if the exercises keep your heart rate up and get you panting and sweating throughout the entire exercise workout session. Even so, this will already be a cardiovascular workout session and not a weight lifting workout session.
So next time when some smart aleck advises you that to get a well toned muscular body, you need to workout with light weight and with high repetition, just ask him to explain the logic behind his statement and have an excellent laugh whenever you see him fumbling for a logical answer.
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There is plenty of good advice out there when wanting to learn how to build muscle fast , however, there is also a lot of bad advice, so be careful.
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