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My high school track coach always told us that doing intense exercise for longer than an hour starts to use your muscles as energy. I don't know if I believe him so much now because elite athletes train for long periods of time and that seems to have no affect on their muscle building.
Hi everyone, i need a feedback from you? Does too much running actually burn away your muscles? This is because many people have different views on this issues. I personally want to loss belly fat. But i also do not want to lose my muscles. So i do a lot of running beside doing weight training. Can anyone advise me on this? How do i balanced weight training with running without burning away my muscles.
Does not apply to you. Because you have enough storage energy. Fat and chubby, I think you are. like my hamster.
The body will only use the muscle when the person is skinny, with no fats.
My high school track coach always told us that doing intense exercise for longer than an hour starts to use your muscles as energy. I don't know if I believe him so much now because elite athletes train for long periods of time and that seems to have no affect on their muscle building.
I think you are quite skinny, that why he limits your training.
Pro athletes usually eat sufficiently energy and nutrients to keep themselves in top shape. They may eat even up to 8-10 meals a day to fuel their training programs.
Yes too much running can burn our weight and also help us to reduce calories, give us a good sort of body shape, Swimming is also good for weight loss.
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Yes, running will cause you to lose some of your muscles, that is if you do not maintain it properly.
So I would suggest weight/resistance training as well.
Eg. Monday Run. Tuesday Weights, Wednesday Run.
Alternate the runs and weights.
For me, I run for about 30-45 minutes. I don't exceed 1 hour, simple because after a certain period of time, your body will start producing chemicals that induces storage of fats, instead of burning. It will burn your muscles instead.
For weights, I follow the stronglift 5x5 programme. You can look it up on the net, it's free(the basics at least). Apart from that, I do bicep/hammer curls, unassisted pull-ups and some other extra stuff(up to you). Do note that your weight training should end with 1 hour too. Same reason as above.
Next, the most important thing I would say is your nutrition. Eat healthily, 4-5 meals a day, 3 hrs apart. Balanced diet, bla bla bla (you get what I mean). Keep away from oily, fried food. Fast food is a definite no-no. Try to stay away from them.
I also find writing down my goals on a paper and bringing it everywhere with me (i keep it in my bag) helpful. I read it once a day so I don't lose focus and stay on track! It helps more than you think!
Good luck to you! Keep at it and you'll definitely see results.
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"only happens when you have depleted more available forms of energy such as sugars (carbohydrates) and fats. Your muscles are mainly made up of protein and water.
When you run you use energy and if it is not replaced (or not enough to begin with) then your body starts to break down muscles for fuel.
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for normal people. doesnt really matter. unless your goal is to be body builder or super marathon runners
But answer is yes.
Muscle will be burnt for long duration running(1 hr n above)
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To all ladies who wanna slim down your belly to look good or keep fit, please do not do sit up or other abs exercise as it will makes your stomach look more bigger or "fatter".
I personally believe running and swimming is the best to lose your tummy fats because it burns the fats in your body and does not really build up your abs muscles. If you keep on do sit up but no running it will build your abs muscles while the layer of fats in your tummy still covering it.
Spoiler below contain text in the link if you dont wish to click because to avoid virus or other factor: Many health and fitness magazines like to splash the wonderful promise of turning fat into muscle on their covers once in a while. They do it for the same reason the tabloids claim Elvis' half-alien offspring is hanging with his old buddies Bigfoot and Jay Leno -- it sells extra copies. Unfortunately, neither is true: You simply cannot transform fat tissue into muscle, and I'm almost certain Jay would choose better company than that.
The Difference
Muscle mass and fat are two different animals: Muscle is active tissue that burns calories around the clock even as you sleep, kind of like an engine running in neutral. When you move around, you burn more calories, just like a car will consume more gas the faster you go. Fat, on the other hand, is just a storage of excess energy. It does nothing but sit there with its sole goal in life to be a spare tire around your waist until you put in the effort to burn it off.
Bodyfat is not particularly useful except as padding against bumps, as insulation to preserve warmth, and as a convenient surface where you can balance a can of beer while watching the game, as frequently demonstrated by my potbellied father. You need some bodyfat to stay healthy of course, but unless you're walking around with razor-sharp abs and sunken, fat-depleted cheeks year-round, you probably have nothing to fear.
Lets Get Down To Business
Having recognized the difference between the two, let's get down to business: Getting rid of the fat and grow the muscles. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to achieve both goals at the same time. The reason for this is that in order to maintain an environment in your body that facilitates fat burn, you must deplete yourself of calories. Growth requires extra calories, much like you'd need extra building material to add a room to your house.
In addition, insulin, which is a key component of growing muscle, is the anti-Christ of fat burn and is released whenever you eat carbohydrates (how much and how fast depends entirely on the type of carbs, however.) The conclusion is that you'll have to focus on one thing first and take on the next challenge later on.
I recommend beginning by trying to pack on the muscle. That means you'll have to eat extra calories, including the extra carbs, and live with the fact that you'll probably gain a few pounds of lard in the process. There's no need to worry about this as long as you keep the increase in body fat under control and avoid ballooning like the Pillsbury Doughboy. Train heavy, eat lots of healthy bodybuilding food (pasta, rice, chicken, lean beef, tuna, oatmeal etc.) but no junk food, candy or alcohol.
Diet
When you've packed on perhaps 5 or 10 pounds of muscle (or whatever your goal was,) switch gears and start the diet. As always, you'll have to keep a daily log of what you eat and carefully adjust your eating patterns so that you eat an average of 500 calories less than you burn each day. Here's where you reap the benefit of having gained the muscle beforehand: Remember the analogy of your muscles being like an engine running in neutral?
Muscle burn calories 24/7, and the more mass you have, the more calories are burned without you even having to lift a finger. This in turn translates to a more lenient diet. In other words, if your added muscle mass boosts your natural metabolism by, say 200 calories per day, that's 200 calories more you can eat and STILL lose body fat! In other words, you'll look better, get to eat more, and will still lose fat at the same rate. How sweet of a deal is that?
Keep Protein Intake Up
As you diet, you want to keep the protein intake up. Also make sure to keep hitting the weights as you did before -- it's your best insurance policy against losing your hard-earned muscle mass. The goal at this point is to slowly but surely shave off the fat without sacrificing mass, so take it easy. No sudden changes in eating habits will improve your situation, only worsen it.
After a few months you should have lost at least 10-15 lbs of fat, and if you played your cards right, you should have kept most of the gains you made prior to the diet. Ta-daa! By taking a little more time and splitting up your two goals, you achieved what you wanted. Had you tried to chase both rabbits simultaneously, you'd been almost guaranteed to fail at least one of the goals.
After all this, actually just my own very personal 2cent opinion.
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Second that, sit ups does not burn body fats, unless you are doing it at a speed fast enough to speed up your heart rate ( not advisable even if you are able to, bad for the back)
Many people have this misconception of spot reduction, for example to lose belly fats, do lots of sit-ups, to lose fats on the thighs, use machines that works on the legs.
To lose body fats, you lose it as a whole, means no spot reduction. As mentioned, swimming and running are great exercises to lose body fats.
The most important thing to take note of is your diet!!!!!
That would be the one thing that you would really like to keep a look out for when trying to lose weight and bodyfats.
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Just run 10 km in 35 mins every evening before dinner, will keep you fit and healthy. I do that when I was in JC.
wow you are as good as African runner
that's a below 9min for 2.4km run. How do you maintain sprinting all the way?
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im simply intrigued and dumbfounded by the obscenely large amount of broscience in this thread. go google leangains. The author of the blog maintains 5.5% bodyfat year round without cardio and occasionally eat a whole cheesecake for fun. If aesthetics is only what u care about then leangains is for you
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