aerobic exercise versus anaerobic exercise
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people go to the gym to do aerobics thinking that they're doing aerobics
when in fact they're doing anaerobic what do these words mean and
how does that impact us aerobic means with air and anaerobic means without air
so when you exercise at a low intensity then you can breathe enough air to
provide the oxygen to support your metabolism once you start exercising
more intensely then you can't breathe in enough air to keep up so you're
exercising sort of without air or anaerobic and what that means is aerobic
as long as you can keep up your body uses primarily fat for fuel it burns fat
and it can keep up but once you start breathing harder once you start
exercising harder then you're trying to suck more air in because you can't keep
up and now the body switches from fat-burning to primarily sugar burning
and now as you're breaking down sugar you can get a little bit of fast energy
but at the cost of lactic acid so as long as you're burning fat you can keep
up you can keep doing it for a long long time when you start using lactic acid
now your muscles start burning and you can only keep it up for so long so the
fat burning you can keep up very long the sugar burning you can't keep up very
long so that's the main difference between aerobic and anaerobic so another
way to approach this is in terms of stress and cholesterol so aerobic
exercise burning fat is a low stress exercise and anaerobic burning sugar is
a high stress exercise and in terms of cortisol the purpose of cortisol is to
provide more blood sugar so when you're falling behind on oxygen so you can't
rely on fat now your body has to rely more on sugar so it releases cortisol
the stress hormone so that you can raise your blood sugar and produce more blood
sugar for that emergency fuel to break down sugar and produce lactic acid so
from that perspective aerobic is a low stress and anaerobic is a high stress so
how can you tell if you're doing aerobic or anaerobic exercise the simplest way
is to notice how you're breathing if you're breathing relaxed if you can
breathe primarily through your nose if you can exercise and maintain a
conversation you are doing aerobic exercise you can breathe normally and
that breathing provides enough oxygen to keep up with your metabolism once you
start panting once you start huffing and puffing once you can't speak a complete
sentence when you're just kind of stuttering simple single words then
you're sucking in you're trying to suck more air in and that's because you're
falling behind so that's a sure sign that you're moving into anaerobic you're
moving into higher stress and you're switching more into burning sugar for
fuel another simple way is to get a heart rate monitor and if you keep your
heart rate below 120 beats per minute in most cases you will be burning aerobic
and if you can get up into the 130 140 range
now you're probably anaerobic and if you go to the gym to do aerobics then most
of those people their heart rates can in the 140 to
160 range so they're doing an aerobic exercise and why does this matter
because you want to do aerobic exercise for a long duration because it's low
stress you can sustain it for a long time without stress in your body or your
nervous system or your adrenal glands or without creating sugar cravings aerobic
you could do for thirty to ninety minutes or even longer if you like those
are things like walking or rollerblading or a leisurely bike ride something you
can do for a long time an aerobic exercise is not a bad thing but don't do
it for a long time anaerobic is for fitness it's for
creating some good stress on the body short-term so those you want to do as
intense as possible so look for future videos on high-intensity interval
training and you want to do them less than 10 minutes as little as five
minutes and you do them only in twenty thirty second intervals so realize when
you go into the gym and you're doing aerobics for 30 40 minutes and your
heart rate is in the anaaerobic range you're actually creating a lot of
stress on your body so that may not be the healthiest thing to do if you want
to get fit then it's not a terrible thing to do if you're young and your
body can take some wear and tear it's not gonna kill you but if you're having
some other stress in your life and you're looking to get healthy then you
do not want to do prolonged anaerobic exercise so if you enjoy this sort of
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