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Exercises that are exclusively for burning excess fat are called as fat burning exercises. They involve working out with muscles contraction at a rapid rate or slow pace. Some examples are running, jogging, swimming. Running and swimming require rapid rate whereas jogging requires only a slow pace. But all these are types of fat burning exercises. All types of exercises basically falls under two wide categories

• Aerobic
• Anaerobic

The terms look familiar but the difference between them is what that seperates the exercises and categories.

Aerobic exercises are exercises that demand oxygen presence to the muscles, which are also done in very slow pace that facilitates the intake of oxygen. Oxygen is the supporter of combustion. It burns the fat as well. So aerobic exercises are the vital fitness exercises that help to burn the excess fat. It is found that aerobic exercises burn more fat than these anaerobic exercises. The reason behind this is that aerobic exercises pump the heart more within its heart rate zone and demands the oxygen to be supplied to every part of the body. Thus thereby increasing the availability of oxygen and burning the excess fat. Persons with high cholesterol, belly fat, excess fat can do these kind of exercises on a regular basis. Jogging is a kind of aerobic exercise. That's why most doctors advice heart patients to go walking and jogging in the mornings. Morning air is unpolluted with excessive supply of fresh oxygen helping you naturally to burn out all excessive fat.

Anaerobic exercises are those that are done with no presence of oxygen ( logically not possible ) or with lesser oxygen. Since body cannot stay without oxygen, they are termed to be taking lesser intake of oxygen. Fats are substances with high carbohydarate content. Carbohydarates are hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons combust in the presence of oxygen to leave out Carbon-di-oxide and water. Since these anaerobic exercises have little presence of oxygen, they donot burn so much of fat like the one mentioned above. Still it is favoured by a few of the community. Persons with already well built body, but needs exercises to continuosly maintain their physique can practise these anaerobic exercises like running, swimming and other intensive workouts.

Most people think running as a type of aerobic exercise. Since morning time is ideal for running, it doesnt assume that they are part of aerobic exercises. While running, muscles try and push harder and doesnt intake the oxygen. Only blood vessels strain with the secretion of adrenaline ( an enzyme ). Once after you run and come to rest, the urge of need to intake oxygen is raised, but this oxygen is suffiecient enough to reach all of the muscles only and not to burn the excess fat. So it is advisable for persons with high fat, to walk and jog rather than to run. Learn to walk before you run.

While doing these exercises all our aim is to burn the excess fat. Here is a data value for all these exercises and their percentage of fat burning. Doing aerobic exercises allows your body to burn more fat than the anaerobic exercises. The variation here is the intensity in which both the exercises are carried out. In general all anaerobic exercises are carried out with faster rate. But for aerobic exercises, they can be done fast or slow depending on the level of the person doing such exercises. For doing an aerobic exercise in its advisable slow rate, it is determined that the body can burn upto 60 percentage of the fat. By increasing the intensity it has reduced to only 35 percentage of the effective fat burnt. Also it is determined that only 5 percent of the fat is burnt by doing anaerobic exercises. This is because of the lesser oxygen intake which has been described in detail.

The things here to note is, no exercise is good or bad. For some aerobic exercises may look extremely satisfied, but for others anaerobic exercises are advisable. It all depends on the individual, his physical fitness and the level. For a beginner with high cholesterol, aerobic exercises serve the best. They reduce the excess fat and turn him handsome in a few weeks. But for a man already fit enough, he cannot carry out normal aerobic exercises, because they are not sufficient enough to maintain his physical fitness. So it is necessary for him to take anaerobic exercises. For professionals, both are necessary and their intensity level vary.