The Road To Healthier, Better and Leaner Physique ( II )

Anti Cardio Group

A lot of trainees will tell people to do H I I T ( High intensity interval training ) where you do different types of exercises one after another. For example, you do 10 repetition of jump squats followed by a couple of push ups then do something else. As the name implies compared to cardio the intensity is a lot higher.

The purpose of this training is not on-the-spot fat burning but after burn.

You can see that HIIT trains your muscles hard, hence, increasing your anabolic hormones such as testosterone, growth hormones which encourage muscle building and promote fat loss. Not only that, because of the oxygen compensation that occurs after the HIIT, the body will keep burning fats.

Another thing is that when muscles are trained, your muscle cells will become more insulin sensitive. That means they will respond better to this hormone, insulin, as such glucose will be stored efficiently in the muscle cells. Confused? All0w me to elaborate this last paragraph.

When you consume, carbs, they will be converted into glucose. These glucose molecues will travel in the blood and that is what we call " Blood Glucose" or " Blood Sugar ". There is a limit to how high or how low Blood Glucose level can be. So, when you eat rice or bread or sweet potato, BG level will go up. In response to it, Pancrease will release a hormone called " Insulin ". These insulin molecues will bind to glucose molecues.

Your muscle cells have insulin receptors and when they come into contact with these insulin molecues, they will absorb the glucose molucues that go along with insulin molecues.

But, when your muscle cells are insulin resistant, meaning, their insulin sensitivity level is low, they won't respond to the amount of insulin that they used to do. When that happens, pancrease will have to release more insulin in order to reduce BG level.

One thing you must know is that if there is excessive amount of glucose in the blood stream and your muscle cells do not take it up, the liver will convert them into fats.

Now, you see why it is important to make sure that our muscle cells are insulin sensitive.

There is one more reason why these trainees support HIIT. Remember that I mentioned " having more muscles will make it easier for you to build bigger ones and lose fats " in Part I of this series ?


Shredded Natural Bodybuilders without cardio


It is true that muscles will keep burning calories even when at rest. But, it does not mean they will be burning fats all the time. Notice that the Calories your muscles keep burning are not necessarily the fats in your adipose tissues ( fat tissues ).

Bodybuilders won't even need such thing as " Contest preparation" or " Cutting Phase " if their muscles keep burning fats. Everyone one of them will be RIPPED, right? But that is not what it is.


That is why it is not right for you to be Anti Cardio.

Yes, you can do HIIT if you want, but you should not ditch Cardio when you are trying to make your buldging tummy flat.