Cross Training for Effective Fitness and Weight Loss
Christopher Wen

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Defined Tag: Fitness For Weight.

Are you always concern about weight loss? Well, the numbers on your scale do not indicate whether you are fit or fat. In fact, fitness for weight loss goes hand in hand. Far more significant than your total body weight is the composition of your body tissue. If a man fatty tissue is bigger than 14 percent to 15 percent of his body mass, or if a woman is more than 20 percent to 22 percent, he or she is overweight, or more precisely, over fat. So you got to not only lose weight, but to keep fit too to maintain a healthy body.

A small amount of fat is definitely needed for padding the internal organs and as insulation under the skin. But excess fat will leads to such diseases as diabetes, gout, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and gall bladder problems. So the main thing here is not the weight, but the fat. There are very few extremely fat persons actually. The reason is that the fittest, not the fattest survive.

The problem now is focused on how to resolve the fat problem not weight problem. The problem with most people who want to lose weight is that they always try to get those numbers lower than what they are seeing now. What happens next is that they strive harder to achieve a lower weight, according to the so called ever reliable result of the weighing scale, which is a wrong interpretation of the weight of the body. What you need to do is to maintain fitness for weight control.

It would be more important to think of the human body as a heat-exchange engine that works on the basic principles of energy physics. The caloric balance equals the total calorie intake minus the total calorie expenditure. Some of the calories people ingest are used for basal metabolism. As people get old, their bodies require fewer calories for this basic upkeep. Some calories are excreted as waste products. Some go into “work metabolism,” the energy expenditure required for any physical activity.

Hence, if people take in more calories than are used by these functions, there is a definite caloric excess. By the laws of physics, energy is transformed rather than destroyed. In this case, each excess of 3,500 calories is changed into a pound of fat. If people want to reverse this process, they have to burn up 3,500 calories to lose a single pound.
 
After some intensive studies and experimentations, health experts were able to come up with the concept of incorporating cross training in order to overcome or break the monotony or dullness in a fitness for weight loss program.

Three of the most commonly used activities whenever a person decides to engage into cross training are swimming, running, and cycling. In cross training, distance is one way to extend your activity as your condition improves. For this reason, you need to traverse a measured distance. If possible, swim the course and measure the distance. If you will be using a running track, such courses usually are a quarter-mile per lap for a complete circuit.

Indeed, cross training is a great way to modify the concept of fitness for weight loss together without having to endure monotonous activities. In fact, the idea of exercising is to like what you are doing, hence, if you engage into cross training, you will be aware of it that you have already achieve your desired weight and fitness.

Boiled down, cross training is, certainly, one way of having fun while maintaining fitness for weight loss together.

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