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Devote yourself to training
What are the reasons why we train? Lose weight? Tone? Defining the goal becomes fundamental to understand what type of training to dedicate to, whether aerobic, anaerobic or mixed. A fundamental factor is also that of pleasure: what do we love to do, what brings us satisfaction and how? We have to calculate that doing something we don’t like is counterproductive in any way and we can also be creative in understanding what we want.
An example? When you were young, you practiced a martial art for a long time and you liked it a lot but maybe you don’t feel like going back to wearing uniforms, competing and performing since that time has run its course? Well, you might think about signing up for a fitboxe or aeroboxe course where you meet new people and feel within you that extreme strength given by the outburst, by the expression of force, by a well-delivered blow and by soliciting the motor chains in the correct way. Another example? Do you love swimming and did competitive sports but have you stopped and loaded yourself with a few extra pounds? Decide to do water aerobics it allows you to stay in the water, socialize and always feel the movement against a resistance, which invigorates and empowers you.
Aerobic activity: description and benefits
Aerobic activity is defined as a practice that requires one moderate effort which could also be protracted for a long period of time, at least 20 minutes (running, cycling, swimming fall into this category). What we consume we recover continuously and we can not stop for a long time. At the end of practice we feel tired but satisfied, sure that you have consumed calories and have moved many muscle groups.
THE benefits are many: if practiced regularly, aerobic training allows you to maintain the ideal weight, tone all muscles, improve cardiac work, circulation and reduce pressure. From the point of view of prevention we go to reduce the risk of disease such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease. All tissues benefit from it, water retention and connective tissue problems are avoided. We succeed in lose weight better and in less time and from the emotional point of view we download a lot of anxiety, a lot of stress. This means that training also supports you from a psychological point of view. Some fonts really need release stress and then resting and sometimes wanting to feel exhausted allows you to go into a deep and restful sleep. It also improves the way we breathe, coordination the way we move our body in space. Proprioception, balance are enhanced and also the observation and the sensation of contact with one’s own body. For some, aerobic work, as it takes place for a long time, also means joining one sort of meditative state.
Anaerobic activity: how it works and benefits
The effort in anaerobic work remains short and intense and typical of this category are jumps, throws, weight lifting and sessions that include all these motor gestures. This type of work includes series that necessarily require the pause between one series and another. This work still allows you to lose weight. Not recommended in the case of heart disease, this type of work remains instead very motivating for young people who want to develop some muscle mass and get satisfaction from work such as weight lifting.
In the case of this type of training we speak of anaerobic threshold. What is it about? This is the lactate threshold, that is how much we can try without going to accumulate lactic acid and hydrogen ions in the blood or muscles. A threshold, a window that has to do with the pain we feel in the muscles when we train and after. When we have high demands on metabolic impact, we go to the threshold or we exceed it. This concept is the basis of our health and sports performance, it must be trained and represents a very important value together with resistance and to power. It is the repetitions so dear to anaerobic work that determine the threshold training. There heart rate represents a very important factor in defining how to train the threshold and what response we have from our body.
Mixed training
Workouts or sports like football, basketball or tennis or crossfit they are mixed, meaning they combine the benefits of both forms of exercise. Within the week we can privilege one or multiple types of workouts, trying to monitor the results and goals well. The important thing would be not to go into confusion (combine incompatible workouts) or overtraining.
The person, the motor history, the injuries and much more must always be considered. The advice would be to try different disciplines and see which ones we are passionate about, in which we feel we want and can grow. The body responds to us immediately when it experiences training with joy. In any case, remember that the nutrition must vary necessarily based on the type of training performed.
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