Cardiovascular Exercise for Weight Loss

As I told you before, diet is first and exercise is second. If you combine exercise with diet, you lose weight faster and more efficiently. But you need strong will. Don't think seriously. Take it easy. Enjoy exercise and conversation with people in the gym if you decide to go to the gym. It is a better way to go to the gym than do by yourself to exercise regularly. You can also get advices from the staffs in the gym.

When you exercise, your body uses glycogen in liver and muscles at first as source of energy and then start to use fat. Glycogen is a storage form of carbohydrates. So to burn fat, at first you need to use up glycogen. Your body starts to use fat (burn fat) after you start to exercise for 20 to 30 minutes (using carbohydrate and glycogen). If you exercise in the morning before breakfast, you can use fat (burn fat) immediately. It is also a good idea to do cardio soon after weight training to use up glycogen. Although you know it, there are fat burning zone and cardiovascular zone of your pulse. The pulse of fat burning zone is 220-age x 0.75 plus minus 10. Cardiovascular zone is faster than it. Most exercise machines have the graph of the zones on them. You don't need to calculate it. In cardiovascular zone, you burn fat and also use proteins from your muscles for energy. So you need to take proteins before the exercise not to lose your muscles. It makes your heart stronger, but you lose your muscles, too. You should do moderate cardio for 20 minutes after you use up glycogen. Don't try to do for a longer time when you decide to start to exercise because you may give it up. Take it easy. 5 times a week are good enough. Be patient. Continuing is a key for success. Any machine is OK if you can keep your pulse in fat burning zone.