Shocking Facts About FAT And How to Be a Fat-Burning
Machine!!!
Who doesn't want to burn fat faster? But
getting huffy-puffy is hard! That's what I hear quite often. So how do we burn
fat? Is there any other way or more comfortable way to get rid of that excess
fat, which will last long?
You don't burn FAT when you sprint - Surprised to know!!!
When you sprint on the treadmill or do any
other rigorous exercise, how much fat do you really burn? None. Really!!! You
must be thinking that you sprinted and put your 100% effort, and you didn't
burn fat at all. How's it possible? Do you know when you sprinted, the only
energy source you were using was carbohydrate? No fat burnt at all.
So, what's the purpose of sprinting if you
don't burn any fat? Aha! that is a great question. Our body stores about half a
kilo of carbohydrate as glycogen in the muscles and liver. The rest is stored
as glucose in the brain. That is the only storage supply we have for sprinting
and lifting weights.
So, the energy for overloading your heart
and lungs, overloading your muscles and bones, comes from carbohydrates. And we
only store half a kilo. So, if you sprint, meaning do anaerobic exercises or do
weight lifting/lift quite heavy the rest of the day, your body will need to
burn fat.
When you're regularly sprinting, when
you're periodically overloading your muscles and bones, lifting something, you
become fit. The beautiful thing is that your body sends messages through the central
nervous system to the carbohydrate storage areas and says, "Hey, we need
to keep you stored as this person (You) is regularly sprinting. We need to
store that half a kilo of carbohydrate for when you need it.†So the rest of
the time - out of 24 hours a day - you need to be burning fat.
Would you believe there are 40 to 100 billion FAT cells in your body?
And the exciting thing about fat storage is
that it's unlimited in our body. Have you noticed that the number of fat cells
we have can differ in numbers in different individuals? Isn't that determined
genetically? Won't you find some people have less fat cells and the rest have
more? However, how much fat is inside that fat cell is a choice. We don't have
to have full-fat cells. The more food we eat that doesn't get burnt up, it gets
accumulated as triglyceride in fat cells.
Your body can turn carbohydrate and protein
into fat, and fat is already fat. A fat cell can keep expanding and expanding.
And when it can't expand anymore, it splits. Now we've got two fat cells that
can expand and expand. So our ability to store fat is enormous. On the other
hand, our ability to store carbohydrate is only half a kilo.
Yeah, how do you turn your body into a fat-burning
machine and get fit? The exercise that we do isn't about fat burning. Many
people say, oh, how many fat calories did I burn or how much did I burn off my
body while exercising?
Aren't you wondering when do you burn FAT or calories?
Isn't it interesting that it's a complete
upside down when you sprint quite hard and overload your muscles by lifting
heavy; you burn carbohydrates, not fat? Now you are fit, have a fast metabolism,
have strong muscles, and build more - your body can burn everything up really
effectively and wants to store carbohydrates and use fat as an energy source.
The stimulus for turning your body into a fat-burning machine while you're
doing nothing is the exercise that you do. So when we sprint and overload our
muscles and bones with something heavy, we're not burning fat; however, for the
rest of the time, we are for every day.
So, except for the time you don't exercise,
your body is a fat-burning machine. Say, for example, you exercise
vigorously/sprint for 10 minutes a day, the rest 23 hours 50 minutes your body
is burning fat. Your respiratory quotient becomes low; that's from where the
calories are coming. Your respiratory quotient is the ratio of the amount of
Carbon dioxide produced by the body to the Oxygen consumed by it. If your
respiratory quotient is low, your body will use fat as an energy source rather
than carbohydrates. A very fit person will always have a low respiratory
quotient.
Are you fit or unfit?
If there is a group of people in a room,
some may be fit and some unfit. Fit people will be burning fat and calories
faster than unfit people. So the fastest way to turn your body into a fat-burning
machine is to get fit. And the only way to get fit is to get puffed by doing
anaerobic exercises such as running, battle rope training, cycling fast, boxing
etc. And it takes about 10 seconds to get puffed, which is why when I started writing
today, I was so excited because I had just sprinted so hard, I could hardly
breathe. It means now, every second, every minute, every hour after I finish sprinting,
my body is a fat-burning machine.
And most importantly, every time you
sprint, you'll also be firing up your endocrine system. You pump heavy drugs
(endorphins) into your brain. The immediate effect of exercise is that you'll
be on a high. Literally, the chemical reaction that heroin, cocaine, and
amphetamines - any pharmaceutical drugs aimed to make us happy with the nasty
side effects. Your brain will produce all of those drugs automatically. You'll
be in control of your hormones, not the other way round.
Also, if you're overloading your muscles
and bones, you'll have strong bones, which means you'll have a robust immune
system, which means you're very unlikely to get sick. And if you do get sick,
you get better quickly because you've got a robust immune system.
Could you be Healthy, Fit, and Strong till 100?
Do you want your body to be a fat-burning
machine when you're as old as I am, and I've got a goal? Â I'm 50 plus, intend to be Strong at 60,
Sensational at 70, Excited at 80, Never give up at 90, Happy and healthy at
100. Or you might be terrific at 20, Thrilling at 30. It doesn't matter how
young or old you are; you can stay young chronologically.
Unfortunately, we are dying species. We can't
change what's inevitable. All of us are just going to keep getting older. But
we can stay young, fit, healthy and lean. If we are fit and strong, our body
will be a fat-burning machine.
Isn't exercise the ultimate drug? Isn't it
the ultimate way to feel fantastic? So let's get fit and healthy and inspire
our kids to do the same, so our kids grow up in a world where being healthy,
fit, and strong is normal?
What do you reckon?