Another common myth debunked!
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Most people believe that exercising with light weights and high
repetition will tone and define your muscles to get that rock hard
ripped muscular body. Since so many fitness personal trainers teach
their clients that, so it must be true?
As summer approaches, many fitness enthusiasts will switch from
muscle building routine to doing light weight high reps routine to
cut away their body fat and to reveal their ripped muscular body.
After all, it is shirt off time for the beach and poolside parties,
isnt it?
Well, I am about to bust this popular light weight high rep to tone
muscle myth. Did I hear you gasp? Good. This is because the myth is
so well entrenched and a lie being told too often will generally be
accepted as the truth.
To get toned and well defined muscles, you need to lose body fat
covering the muscles. Period. When you get rid of your body fat,
your muscles will show through. You will look sinewy and muscular.
Of course, that is provided that you have built muscles below those
fats.
Let me ask you, how could light weight high repetition exercises
build muscles or melt away fat? There is no logic in this.
To build muscle mass, you have to do heavy weight low rep compound
exercises, exactly the opposite of light weight high rep routine.
To lose body fat, you have to do intensive cardiovascular exercises
and eating correctly.
There is no such thing as spot reduction short of invasive medical
procedures such as liposuction. That means no matter how many
crunches and side bends you do, the fat isnt going to come off
your belly and neither will your love handles melt away.
So if you want to reveal your well toned and defined musculature,
you have firstly to build bigger muscles and then subsequently cut
your body fat. Medium weight high repetition compound giant set
exercises may help you burn more calories if the exercises keep
your heart rate up and get you panting and sweating throughout the
entire exercise workout session. However, this will already be a
cardiovascular workout session and not a weight lifting workout
session.
So next time when some smart aleck advises you that to get a well
toned muscular body, you must workout with light weight and with
high repetition, just ask him to explain the logic behind his
statement and have a good laugh when you see him fumbling for a
logical answer.
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