Thursday, April 23, 2009

When jogging, how to lose weight instead of build muscle? is there a technique? -

will we lose weight and not gain muscle if we do not run hard but run soft with long distant? Instead of run hard but short distant, since i thought that will give our body pressure and get muscle more quickly by running too hard...

There is really no way of doing any cardio without gaining some strength and muscle, as it takes strength to run/jog. Make sure to properlly stretch your muscles for 30seconds, each day, after warming up.. this can help lengthen them instead of them being bulky. also, try more of an interval training, run HARD for 2.5 mins, walk for 45seconds, run HARD for 2.5mins... helps with lessening muscle mass whil still burning cals.

Technically, Jogging is a weight-bearing high impact aerobic exercise.Jogging benefits are follows:1. Good for heart and lung2, Net calorie burn depends on your weightCalorie burn = Weight in pounds x 0.63 x distance in miles.As a rule of thumb you burn about 100 calories for each mile3. Strengthens your legs4. Excellent to maintain weight after you go off dietDisadvantages1. It can put a lot of pressure on your knees2. Jogging is not anaerobic exercise. The basic purpose of aerobic is to burn calorie, not build muscle mass. To build muscle mass, you need to do weight training exercises.If you want to just burn calories and not build even leg muscles, just walk or do water aerobics.