Saturday, March 7, 2015

Is reducing our weight equivalent to weight loss?


Now you know your ideal weight but do you know that weight is also = muscle + fat?

Muscles are essential in our daily activities such as balancing, optimizing our movement and preventing injury.  Most importantly, they help us to burn calories!

Our muscle mass will determine your metabolic rate. Our metabolic rate (Resting Metabolic Rate / Basal Metabolic rate) is the rate of the calories burn when you are not doing anything. The rest will be converted into FAT. 

Our bodies normally took 4-8 hours before converting the unused calories to fat.
Eg. If you consumed 3000 kcal a day and your RMR is 1500 Kcal, it would means that if you stay sedentary, your body would burn the 1500 calories and the remaining balance of 1500 calories will become fat.

It doesn't means that you are slim now you won't become fat. You will notice that why some slim people are getting fatter despite doing the same activities and having the same kind of diet over the years. This is because as we grew older, our metabolic rate decreases naturally. That is why we need to do even more exercise as we age.

For normal people like us, our challenge is to increase our resting metabolic rate, decrease our fat and achieve the idea weight that we want.




Cardio exercise helps you burn fat while weight training helps you build muscle.





In order to help you build your muscles, you need to do your weight training. For ladies, weight training doesn’t means that you will be as muscular as the guys or the body builder, and you will never be one no matter how hard you train. To be like them, you need special training to have a bodybuilder physique. Our normal weight training is call toning, where you work on your muscles so that your RMR will increase. There are some core muscles such as Traps, Triceps, Back, Gluts, Hamstrings, Calve, Shoulders, Chest, Bicep, abs, Quads.

For me, I focus on Triceps, Biceps (that’s where u can get a slimmer upper arm), Gluts (for a firmer butt), Back (for a straighter posture), hamstring (for a leaner thigh), Calve (to have a leaner calve especially when you are wearing heels). Shoulders (for a better posture) and Abdomen (flatter tummy) Chest expansion don’t work well for me; I think it’s more suitable for guys.



Next time round, I’ll be starting on some exercise quest to get you get started. Get ready your gear and check out this column for update!

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