Ain’t no more a Ladies Only zone providing voyeuristic pleasures and eye-candies at times; the latest invasion by men has taken the aerobics scenario by storm. However, aerobics just prove to be the garnishing on the main food, so if you were thinking bidding goodbye to hardcore resistance training, then come back to the ground. At best, aerobics sets up the atmosphere right for resistance training. That translated, aerobics helps the muscles to warm up and loosen and saves them from damages, which might result from exposing them suddenly to insane intensities. But if you think that it’s the women’s regime you need to follow, you can’t get more wrong. Aerobics is not all about spandex and stretches; it has undergone many a beneficial transformations.
A good aerobics workout depends on an open mind; else fitness through it can never be achieved. The exercises are devised to burn fat primarily, thus exposing the muscles lying underneath. Aerobics have shown to initiate the process of burning calories more effectively, which is triggered further and sustained by the resistance trainings. So the proverbial concept of – one thing sets of another- truly applies here.
The reason why aerobics has risen to prominence with men has its roots in a fatter look many of them possesses. Resistance training develops the muscles all right, but that’s under the fat, while not burning it significantly. Besides, the intensities at which resistance trainings burn fat is often unendurable by most men and several factors like lack of time, or lack of energy contributes to it. Aerobics, on the other hand, is all about free movements i.e. it’s only your body weight that you’ll be using, thus enabling you to go for lengthier sessions without feeling drained. However, you do not start off with a two-hour long aerobics session; you slowly increase the time over a definite period, suitable to your system.
But then again, if you think of doing the aerobics and hitting the weights right away, you shall be wrong again. There must be at least an eight-hour gap between the two; else, you shall lack the energy to lift the heavy weights. That would contradict the very basics of resistance training and you won’t see much development with your muscles. At the advanced stages of resistance training (when you have shed considerable amounts of fat), this is, however; permissible (but only for warm-ups), since your system is accustomed to the intensity you’ve bestowed upon it all this time.
So burn fat, increase stamina and develop the muscle mass in galore, for now you have the correct proportions of sensible actions served to you on a platter.
