Weight Loss Exercises

Understanding importance of weight loss exercises

From American Heart Association (AHA), the US National Institute of Health (NIH) to The American Center for Cancer Research (ACCR), all encourage on having a weight loss exercise regime included in any healthy weight loss program. 

GHF Weight Loss (read a detailed review here) on the other hand insists that you need a scheduled weight loss exercise regime to achieve permanent weight loss. 

Even in the case of extreme obesity, safe exercise i.e. exercising without straining your bones and joints in mind is still encouraged to attain successful weight loss. This is probably the best way to introduce and sustain a healthy deficiency of calories to encourage the body to loose extra fat, hence weight loss. 

Get to know how important weight loss exercises assist in losing weight in  GHF Weight Loss (read a detailed review here) . It tackles this topic in detail. 

Is weight loss exercise that important? 

Ooh yes it is. The human body is the most intricate and complex system. As a matter of fact it is more complex than all the computer network and engineering fit that takes men to space and back. With thousands of biochemical process occurring at the same time, it will always try to optimize itself at all times. 

With this in mind, weight gain occurs due to response of body to excess fuel or energy (calories). In its diversity the body can use Carbohydrates, Fats or Proteins as fuels to drive its body functions and be able to do physical work. When these fuels, mainly Carbs and Fats, are in excess the body reserves them for future use. 

Weight loss on the other hand would occur because you are not providing enough fuel to the body. This is true always as the body will have to use its reserve energy. 

But weight loss gets more intriguing . . .

The first need of the body is always to provide energy to keep alive. Immediately there is less than minimum energy, the body adjusts itself to be able to provide energy for a longer period, consequently resisting weight loss. 

Though Carbohydrates are the fuels preferred by the body directly, the body prefers reserving fuel in form of Fats. This is because the same weight of fat contains twice as many calories as carbohydrates. And since moving more weight is using more energy the body is optimizing. 

This explains why weight loss is hinged on consuming fewer calories. Calorie needs of the body are first served by Carbs, then Fats and finally when the body is in starvation, Proteins. But for the weight loss to be sustainable the loss of weight should be mainly body fat. 

Naturally the body is designed for some level of physical activity. When exerted in physical work a deficiency in energy occurs. This naturally expected energy deficit can be exploited to achieve weight loss. 

Indeed a healthy, balanced and mildly calorie deficient diet together with exercises are key to successful weight loss.

The exercise can be done for a prolonged period as they are mainly aerobic. Being aerobic (i.e. using oxygen to develop fuel), it can metabolize body fats. 

Examples of cardiovascular activities are walking, jogging, martial arts, aerobics 
etc. 

Since these physical activities are expected by the body, the calorie deficit that occurs can be funded in the short to medium term from the body reserves (body fat) and not from proteins in body tissue. The body does this as it expects calories to be replenished by eating. 

Combined with a slightly calorie deficient balanced diet, weight loss would be imminent. As these exercises and diets continue, the body starts to shed off more body fat. This occurs as the body uses more and more reserve energy. 

On the other hand, muscle development is core in strength training. Increased muscle density results to an increased BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). 

By developing your muscle density, you are increasing the quantity of body tissue that needs to be kept alive. These are kept alive by providing necessary energy. This makes your body naturally an efficient fat burner. So you literally burn more calories even in your sleep so to speak. 

Strength training as a weight loss exercise would quickly be a reservation to some because they do not want to 'bulk up'. Neither do women want to look masculine. 

The truth is that the exercises required to develop a muscular physique are extremely strenuous and require very high discipline and commitment. The kind you would require for weight loss may be similar in form, but a lot less in strain. Exercises targeting weight loss will mainly tone your muscles, making them more firm and compact, tightening and lifting hanging parts of the body like the bottom and breasts. At most, weight loss exercises would give an appealing, well structured feminine body. 

Other advantages of exercising as you loss weight include;

• Increasing your fitness level (fitness here would mean the amount of work you would be able to do before you get tired),
• Reduce the risk of heart disease,
• Increase lung capacity,
• Reduce blood pressure,
• Prevent diabetes,
• Burn bad Fats,
• Strengthen the cardiovascular system,
• Improve your immune system
• And even significantly lower your stress levels.

Weight loss exercises are pivotal in a weight loss plan. In this guide two disciplines are identified that need to be involved to achieve weight loss.

1. Physiology: This entails the aspect of controlled calorie intake and calorie expenditure with a view to introduce a safe and healthy calorie deficit. Weight loss exercises fall in here.

2. Psychology: This is probably the less tackled of the disciplines. It entails the process for achieving behavioral changes to adapt a lifestyle that maintains you new found weight.