When you build 1 pound of muscle it burns 50 calories. If you build 10 pounds of muscle, not hard to do in someone who hasnt worked out in a while. You can burn up to 500 extra calories a day. This is big. If you can burn that many more calories a day just sitting on the couch. Imagine what you could burn if everyday you do some kind of physical activity.
Everyone always says I need to loose weight in my stomach or hips or thighs. This is known as spot reduction and unfortunately this is not possible. When you do aerobic exercise you burn calories only while you are exercising. When you do strength training you burn calories while you are training and can go as much as 72 more hours with your furnace on high. So it makes much more sense to strength train and do cardio work then just cardio work alone. So the answer is to tone and shape those muscles with strength training and lower your resting hard rate with cardio work.
In case studies it has been found that people with a resting pulse rate at or below 62 beats per minute were 33% less likely to have a heart attack the people with a pulse rate of 80 beats or more.
RECIPE OF THE DAY
Garbonzo Bean Salad
Takes 15 minute to make a can be used in different of ways
1 can garbonzo bean ( can substitute black or kidney beans)
1/2 green pepper chopped
1/2 red pepper chopped
1 large carrot
1 can stewed tomatoes
1 small onion
half a box of wheat or whole grain pasta (Barilla Tastes best)
Mix everything together and your done.
1 day add chicken
1 day add tuna
1 day add london broil
Enjoy
A healthy mind and body extends quality of life
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