After you decide to start training at a fitness club, you need to carefully consider your sports program. For most people, a professional consultation with a trainer is needed, who in each case will be able to choose sports exercises in accordance with the characteristics of a person’s physical fitness.
Surely many of you have heard about “cardio”, or aerobic exercises, which several times increase the effectiveness of training, promote weight loss, and also reduce the risk of disease. However, few people know about anaerobic exercise, which can also be safely attributed to exercises that are useful for the cardiovascular system.
Everyone who decides to play sports should know how anaerobic and aerobic exercises differ - this will help you choose the most suitable option for yourself.
In the general sense of the word, anaerobes are those organisms that receive energy even with a limited supply of oxygen through substrate phosphorylation. By analogy, the exercises performed by a person with a limited intake of oxygen are called anaerobic. They are performed due to the energy that is stored in the muscles. This is their significant difference from aerobic exercises, which require more oxygen entering the human body when breathing.
Anaerobic exercise is associated with any heavy and fast physical training. These include sprinting, jumping rope, cycling, weightlifting, overcoming steep climbs, etc.
The fact is that during intensive exercises, the muscles of the person experience an acute shortage of oxygen, so the carbohydrates in the body are broken down without his participation. Lactic acid is produced - a breakdown product of glucose. A feeling of fatigue appears when lactic acid has already sufficiently accumulated in the blood , so anaerobic exercise is considered short-term. However, the human body gradually adapts and is already easier to perceive the accumulating lactic acid. Training time is increasing, and a person is not so quickly feeling tired.
Anaerobic exercises contribute to the intensive use of muscle energy in a short period of time. It is thanks to this that the muscles are strengthened, as well as the improvement of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Thanks to such training, over time, a person can increase his body's ability to withstand the accumulation of toxins and accelerate their elimination. We can safely say that people for whom anaerobic training has become a habitual activity have increased endurance, and they can fight fatigue much more successfully than others.
It is not surprising that such exercises help in the fight against excess weight - because muscle mass increases and strengthens, which means that there is no place for fat.
Anaerobic exercise should primarily be performed by those who want to increase their strength. In general, they are useful for any person - because who does not dream of being more resilient and not getting tired so quickly? But before you begin such training, you need to know a few simple rules, compliance with which will help to conduct classes as efficiently as possible.
So, first of all, it is necessary to critically assess the level of your physical fitness. If you are new to sports, you need to start with moderate anaerobic exercise. You should prepare your body, giving it simpler exercises, and after a few weeks you can proceed to more intensive training.
It is imperative to do a warm-up before starting a workout and a "hitch" (stretching and relaxation exercises) after class.
Anaerobic exercise is contraindicated during pregnancy. But for women who want to get rid of unnecessary fat, such training will help to find a more slim figure.