Light weight high repetition do not tone and define muscles
Most people believe that exercising with light weights and high repetitions
will tone and define your muscles in order to get that rock
hard ripped muscular body. Since so many fitness
personal trainers teach their clients that, so it must be true?
As summer approaches, many fitness enthusiasts will switch from muscle
building routine to doing light weight high reps routine to cut away their
body fat and to reveal their ripped muscular body. After all, it is shirt off
time for the beach and poolside parties, isn’t it?
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Well, I am about to bust this popular light weight high rep to tone muscle
myth. Did I hear you gasp? Good. This is because the myth is so well
entrenched and a lie being told too often will generally be accepted as the
truth.
To get toned and well defined muscles, you
need to lose body fat covering the muscles. Period. When you get rid of
your body fat, your muscles will show through. You will look sinewy and
muscular. Of course, that is provided that you have already built muscles
below those fats.
Let me ask you, how could light weight high repetition exercises build muscles
or melt away fat? There is no logic in this.
To build muscle mass, you have to do heavy weight low rep compound exercises,
exactly the opposite of light weight high rep routine. To lose body fat, you
have to do intensive cardiovascular exercises and eating correctly.
There is no such thing as spot reduction short of invasive medical procedures
such as liposuction. That means no matter how many crunches and side bends you
do, the fat isn't going to come off your belly and neither will your love
handles melt away.
So if you want to reveal your well toned and defined musculature, you have
firstly to build bigger
muscles and then subsequently cut your body fat. Medium weight high
repetition compound giant set exercises may help you burn more calories if the
exercises keep your heart rate up and get you panting and sweating throughout
the entire exercise workout session. However, this will already be a
cardiovascular workout session and not a weight lifting workout session.
So next time when some smart aleck advises you that to get
a well toned muscular body, you must workout with light weight and with
high repetition, just ask him to explain the logic behind his statement and
have a good laugh when you see him fumbling for a logical answer.
