February 27, 2024 : Body Fat and Aerobic Exercise
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
A patient has asked me a question.
"I've been working really hard on weight training and my stomach has shrunk, my body is toned and my weight is going down,
but for some reason my body fat just won't go down. Is something wrong with my body?"
Weight training does not actually reduce body fat. You need to do aerobic exercise to reduce body fat.
To begin with, weight fluctuates with water content. This is why the initial weight loss is fast.
The problem is when the weight loss stops, from then on it is not so easy to lose weight.
In other words, you only lose water and weight, but not body fat.
The only way to reduce body fat is to burn fat through aerobic exercise.
When you were a student, you went to school in the morning, had sports lessons, joined clubs after school and worked out at the gym.
Exercise was a natural part of your life, but as you got older, especially after middle age, you became more prone to injury after a hard workout,
and it became impossible to do the same amount of exercise as when you were a student.
So you need to change all your weight training time to aerobic exercise to reduce body fat.
When I gave him this answer, he agreed.