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When it comes to furthering weight loss and cardiovascular health, just regarding every one thinks of aerobic exercise as being the solution. While it may be the more usual and apparent choice, it isn’t inevitably the best solution. Anaerobic exercise on the other hand, has unbelievable gains that are many times overlooked.

Let’s initial clarify aerobic and anaerobic in terms of it’s dependence on oxygen. We, as organisms, require oxygen at all times. Although aerobic is considered oxygen dependent and anaerobic non-oxygen dependent, this is only in molecular terms. Whether you’re doing wind sprints or running a marathon, as an organism you are breathing and utilizing oxygen all the time.

Oxygen only becomes a variable among the dissimilar energy pathways. Therefore, exercises that are considered aerobic in nature such as running or biking at low to moderate intensities for long durations, get their energy predominantly from oxygen dependent energy pathways. Whereas exercises that are considered anaerobic in nature such as weight lifting and sprints that are shorter in duration and higher in intensity, get their energy predominantly from non-oxygen dependent pathways.

Since aerobic exercises are considered to be beneficial for cardiovascular health, persons tend to pick activenesses that are low to moderate in intensity but longer in duration over doing activenesses that are higher in intensity but much shorter in duration. Hence the aerobic vs. anaerobic battle. In actuality, actions that are considered aerobic or anaerobic are not that dissimilar in terms of energy. Activities calling for dissimilar energy pathways are briefly explained as follows:

• Activities that are very high in intensity that require a lot of energy very quickly, implement the phosphagen energy pathway. This energy pathway is not oxygen dependent. It provides energy very quickly, but only for a short duration. This is because it derives energy from an energy rich element called “phosphates” that are stored in the skeletal muscles in very fixed quantity. Because of it is fixed supply, phosphate gets depleted very speedily (10 seconds or less). However, in when it comes to 5 min almost all of the phosphate will be refilled and stored back into the skeletal muscles.

• Activities that are high in intensity and longer in duration (up to 2 min), employ the glycolytic energy pathway. The glycolytic energy pathway uses glucose stored as glycogen in our body as it’s source of energy. This energy pathway operates in the absence of oxygen and converts glucose to energy, but also develops lactic acid as a nasty by-product. At this intensity the body can not metabolize or get rid of lactic acid as fast as it’s being produced. The lactic acid cumulates and wreaks mayhem on skeletal muscles, deteriorating it is capacity to do work. This is known as the lactic threshold or the anaerobic threshold.

• Activities that are light to moderate in intensity and longer than 2 minutes in duration utilise the oxidative energy pathway. This energy pathway is oxygen dependent. Similar to the glycolytic energy pathway, it uses glucose in our bodies as it’s source of energy. However, this pathway converts glucose into pyruvate which enters the Krebs cycle. The Krebs cycle is very effective and yields more energy from glucose without devising lactic acid as a by-products. Therefore, more energy is invented as demanded by actions with longer durations. This energy pathway may likewise use fat as an energy source at suitable low intensities. However, the routine is very slow and inefficient, specially in terms of performance.

Even even though these energy pathways are distinct in their processes, they’re intricately interdependent. Let’s take a look at how the energy pathways work together for the duration of an action such as running: Warm up by jogging for 10 – 15 min at an easy pace. At this intensity the body doesn’t need to tap into the anaerobic energy pathways so it uses the oxidative energy pathway to fuel the run. After the warm up, pick up the pace and do a 400m run at a moderate to high intensity. At this intensity both the phosphagen and the glycolytic energy pathways come into play. After the 400m, finish it off with a 60m sprint. The prompt demand for energy for such a high intense but short duration action may only be provided by the phosphagen energy pathway. Cool down by jogging at a low intensity for 800m. The oxidative pathway will provide energy for the duration of the cool down.

As pointed out in the example above, all three energy pathways work simultaneously at all times and our body innately knows when and how to seamlessly emphasize the right energy pathway as dictated by the intensity and duration of the activity. When just looking at the facts, it becomes clear that aerobic vs. anaerobic is more semantics than anything else. Aerobic exercise has gotten more attention and has been affiliated with better health equated to it’s anaerobic counter part. The truth is that they both subsist underneath the same umbrella.

Fitness will have to be viewed as a whole and not in parts. You must be more concerned with regards to partaking in activenesses or exercises that stimulate all energy pathways rather than just training aerobically or anaerobically. The body is innately intellectual and doesn’t distinguish whether or not we’re doing “aerobic” or “anaerobic” exercise. It plainly responds by supplying the necessary energy demanded by the activity.

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