Researchers in an Australian study, analyzed 58 overweight women and men over a 12-week cardiovascular program. Those involved in the program, exercised five times a week and burned roughly 500 calories each time. You will be surprised by the results. Seven pounds were lost below the anticipated weight loss! Worse, of the 58 participants 26 lost only 2 pounds in 12 weeks, despite sweating out for almost 60 hours.Conclusion: the emphasis of cardiovascular exercise on weight loss should be reduced.I am not trashing cardiovascular exercise and its benefits. It is common knowledge that cardiovascular exercise improves your health in several areas. It helps reduces stress, improves stamina, lowers blood cholesterol and blood pressure and more. If combined with a smart, nutritious diet, you will see even greater results. However, researchers concluded, that "From a public health perspective, cardiovascular exercise should be encouraged and the emphasis on weight loss reduced.Personal trainers, magazines, and health clubs need to stop promoting "cardio" as the magic formula for weight loss - it isn't. Do not fall into the trap that cardiovascular exercise solves your fat burning efforts. The calorie counters that are part of the typical cardiovascular machines are less than accurate when in comes to measuring fat loss and calories burned.Don't think that you can just go "burn off a big meal" by running on a treadmill for an hour. You are better of not eating that second slice of pizza which averages about 400 calories a slice and focus on building your body's metabolism with strength training. Instead of stressing your body with monotonous cardio exercises, do away with them.As soon as you realize how difficult it is to drop fat by doing cardio alone, you'll discover how simple the weight loss is. Diets that work are a conscientious planning of healthy meals, weight training exercise and most of all, a support system that keeps you mentally aware of yourself.Let us focus on a different study, which exemplifies the effectiveness of the diet. The study involved people of both sexes needing to lose weight who enrolled in a low calorie diet over the course of three months. They ended up losing over 36 pounds and 18 times more than the amount of weight lost by some of the participants in the cardiovascular study mentioned above. Which is solid proof that dieting is better than cardiovascular exercise for weight loss. However, there was a second part to the study worth noting.The cardiovascular exercise study participants were divided into two groups. For 12 months, one group of subjects went on a high-protein diet while the other group went on a high-carbohydrate diet. At the end of the 12-month study, both groups on average gained back 4 pounds! My point is that both groups regained an equal amount of weight. Either of the diets aided the participants in maintaining the original weight loss. But only 47% of the 180 subjects who began the study completed both phases. And that's a lot of dropouts!So what is my point? Having people stay with their diet is the hard part. That's why it's important to plan, find the right diet that works for you, and have good social support.The saying "diets don't work" is a politically-correct subterfuge that allows people to escape diets in the first place. The truth is, diets DO work, its the people that don't. Keep searching for the ideal diet for you and your lifestyle. Don't forget, even when you have found the proper diet, you'll still need to put in hard work and dedication to see results.Add short well balanced workouts -- strength training, cardiovascular and stretching. Stay away from long, boring, repetitive cardiovascular exercises - and you'll finally get the results you are entitled to.1 Br J Sports Med. 2009 Sep 29. Beneficial effects of exercise: shifting the focus from body weight to other markers of health. King N, Hopkins M, Caudwell P, Stubbs J, Blundell J.2 Am J Clin Nutr. 2009 Sep 30. One-year weight maintenance after significant weight loss in healthy overweight and obese subjects: does diet composition matter? Delbridge EA, Prendergast LA, Pritchard JE, Proietto J.
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Fifty-eight obese men and women were analyzed for twelve weeks with cardiovascular exercise in a weight loss Australian study. The results were surprising.
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