Endurance means to do a repetitive work for a period of time without getting fatigue. Since our birth one machine has been doing a constant repetitive work without getting fatigue. Yes I mean to say ‘heart’. And we need specific endurance training for having a bigger heart. A person who is “big-hearted” is thought to be generous, romantic and warm. Yet despite what the poets and storytellers tell us, the heart is basically a muscle – one that needs to exercise to work well. The stronger it is, the better it works. A bigger heart may not make you more generous or romantic, but it will pump more blood around your body and deliver more oxygen and nutrients to the working muscles.  

Multigym has end numbers of cardiovascular equipments like Treadmill, Static cycle, Stepper, Cross-country, Biking etc. for a healthy heart. But the intensity of exercise varies person to person. The thumb rule is that a person should train at his target heart rate (220-age). But the main thing is that how the person feel and hear a qualified trainer can help. Moreover Aerobic exercise (Endurance training) is the only form of exercise that can efficiently metabolise fat cell. Now a days we have seen many slimming centres mushrooming here and there with the claim that they reduce fat without doing any exercise. All these centres usually use various spot reduction equipments like Vibrator Belt, Rollers, Abdominal Belts and Muscle Stimulating Belt for reduction of fat. The theory of this concept is based on a belief that if you exercise a specific area or muscle group, more fat will be burned from that area.  For example, you might think you could do a large number of sit-ups as abdominal exercise to decrease abdominal fat.  Increasing muscles’ activity in a specific area does not decrease fat in that specific zone.  The way your body stores and mobilizes fat depends on individual genetics (oxidation of free fatty acid is determined by the number of mitochondria in muscle). Current research shows that exercise stimulates the release of fatty acids throughout our entire body. No evidence demonstrates that fatty acids are released to a greater degree from fat pads located directly over exercising muscles.

In a landmark study in the field of exercise physiology in 1971, Scientist examined subcutaneous fat stores in the right and left forearms of tennis players.  They found that the girth or degree of muscularity of the subject’s dominant arm was much larger than the non-dominant arms, but the level of fat in both arms was the same.  The stress of tennis play caused the forearm muscles to hypertrophic growth, but despite serious work to that area, fat stores remain unchanged.  Muscle is heavier than fat.  So spot exercises develop muscles but do not remove fat.  The fat itself must be converted to energy, in other words, the body should be forced to burn its own fat for energy (after 20 minutes of acrobatic exercise fatty acids are efficiently released from throughout the body).  These types of spot reducing exercise are useful only for those who are not fat but whose muscles are not dense or solid.  After spot reducing programmes, an obese person may feel that his legs and hips have developed the perfect shape.  But he will find to his dismay that not a single pound of his excess fat is lost.  Besides this, an obese person will also feel more tired after these exercises. All the fat burning methods, which show the shortcut way to reduce fat instead of dieting and exercise, can be classified into two broad categories:

1)         Fat burning Supplements.

2)         Fat burning Drugs.

1) Fat burning supplements: -

Laboratory studies are inconclusive regarding oral administration of this supplement.  Despite questionable findings by Scientists, some supplement manufacturers are still pushing the stuff as legitimate fat burner.          

2) Fat burning Drugs: -

Other products, which are currently available as fat-burning aids, should be classified as drugs because of their ability to alter the body’s normal physiology and in some cases cause serious side effects.

Those drugs can be divided in three broad Groups:

1. Anorectics:  Anorectics do not produce weight loss by stimulating metabolism they only do so by reducing appetite. People who take those drugs are prone to extreme fatigues and weakness.

2. Diuretics:  These drugs eliminate fluids from the body.  Our body contains 70 percent fluids, which is necessary for our metabolism.  Dehydration by diuretics may reduce the weight but they are absolutely of no use to those who want to reduce fat.

3. Hormones (Thyroxine):  Hormones taken on regular basis increase the possibilities of getting cancer in later years.

Posted By Subhabrata Bhattachariya