For friends with fitness habits, the word “strength training” should be familiar. Strength training is a form of exercise for weight loss. Some people roughly equate strength training with anaerobic exercise. After comparing the fat-burning effect of aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise, most obese people choose aerobic exercise to lose weight. But in fact, strength training is an important part of exercise to lose weight, and its weight loss effect is even better than aerobic exercise.
What is strength training?
Strength training is resistance training, a form of exercise that improves muscle strength, endurance, and shape through repeated, multiple sets of rhythmic weight-bearing exercises. Strength training is rich in content. Common basic exercises include push-ups, pull-ups, crunches, and sit-ups.
Is strength training aerobic or anaerobic?
Aerobic exercise refers to the exercise performed by the human body under the condition of sufficient supply of oxygen. During exercise, oxygen is used for metabolism and release energy. Anaerobic exercise refers to exercise performed by muscles in a state of “lack of oxygen”. Aerobic exercise consumes sugar, fat, and amino acids to produce energy for the body’s needs. Anaerobic exercise mainly consumes carbohydrates for energy, and consumes less fat. So, is strength training aerobic or anaerobic? Strength training is a form of exercise that combines aerobic and anaerobic exercise. The content of strength training is mostly anaerobic exercise, but its circuit training method also includes the characteristics of aerobic exercise, which can decompose the lactic acid produced by anaerobic metabolism again. If you want to know whether your strength training is aerobic or anaerobic, you can judge it according to the exercise intensity. Generally speaking, when strength training reaches a high intensity, it will enter an anaerobic state. The exercise intensity can refer to the heart rate during exercise. When the exercise heart rate is 70% to 80% of the maximum exercise heart rate, it is a high-intensity exercise.
Maximum exercise heart rate = 220-age. For example, for a 30-year-old person, his maximum exercise heart rate is 190 beats/min. Multiply his maximum exercise heart rate by 70%~80%, and the result is 133~152. That is, when his exercise heart rate exceeds 133 to 152 times per minute, then he is doing high-intensity exercise.
