Believing That Aerobic Exercise is the Secret to Long Term Weight Loss
 

Even exercise physiologists are often caught up in the partial view thinking that "aerobic exercise burns fat." The truth is, you might enhance fat release during aerobic exercise, but you can burn fat as fuel anytime you are in an "aerobic state." Aerobic, by definition, suggests that you are meeting oxygen demand. That means any time you are meeting the demand for oxygen you are capable of burning fat. Are you meeting oxygen demand when you drive? Yup. When you read? Uh-huh! When you sleep? You know it! If you learn to balance out supportive eating with result oriented exercise, you can shift your body into a state where it is slowly releasing and burning fat literally ALL DAY LONG! Too much aerobic exercise, or exercising beyond your body's momentary ability to supply fuel, can actually result in a loss of muscle and metabolic slowdown. If you've been on a strictly aerobic program, and neglected the resistance training or supportive eating, it's no wonder you feel as if you failed to get the results you seek. Don't misunderstand me. I don't suggest aerobic exercise is bad. It's vital for enhancing the function of the heart and lungs and for better delivering nutrients to every cell in your body. It's just that it should be viewed as a piece of the overall puzzle, not the solution in and of itself. A slight modification in any exercise program is usually enough to turn this mistake around so improvement is constant and ongoing!