Hormones help to determine what type of fuel your body uses: sugar or fat. Learn how to eat and exercise in a new way to accelerate weight loss in Kansas City!
Your body burns both fat and sugar at all times. But did you know that these two fuels energize your body in very different ways? Like diesel fuel, when your body burns fat during exercise you can go for a long time, but you will not achieve outstanding results. Alternately, when your body burns sugar during a workout, it’s like using high-octane fuel; you get where you’re going super fast, but not very long. Even though your body burns both types of fuel, the way you feed your body and when you exercise can effect the amount of each type of fuel that is burned. For example, if you eat sugar at a meal, you will burn sugar after the meal. But if you burn fat during a workout, you will burn fat after; the body likes to replenish used energy with the opposite fuel. Pilates 1901 in Kansas City is here to explain how you can design your meals and exercise routine to achieve a positive metabolic effect and weight loss in Kansas City!
Drive your hormones to keep burning fat going after your workout ends!
The goal is to engage in exercise that modulates hormonal effects, burning more calories during the workout and achieving better caloric benefit after the workout. EPOC (or post-exercise oxygen consumption) is how we refer to the increased energy use after an intelligent workout, and it measures how much oxygen the body consumes after a workout. An intelligent workout is designed to allow your hormonal machinery to burn large amounts of energy during the workout, leading to sustained fat-burning after the workout. High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT, can help you burn more energy and more total fat than a workout that provides constant aerobic exercise at steady intensity.
Hormone balance and intelligent exercise design are complicated topics that deserve our attention. Visit our blog often more more information and tips on how to incorporate intellegent exercise into your workout routine. Or visit Pilates 1901 in person to receive professional training and attend our exhilarating group classes for strength training and weight loss in Kansas City.
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