ray miller said:Joyce said:Again, I'm just making a very uneducated guess here <g>, but I don't think weight lifting
increases your heart rate significantly - not enough to be considered aerobic exercise anyway.
That's why many people have stated that we have to be extremely careful when figuring and adding
those activity points earned through weight training. WT will build muscle and burn fat, but
doesn't really increase that heart rate.
I am not familiar with curves but from what others have stated, I'm going to guess that they are
going for a combination of aerobics and weights. If it was strictly weight focused, I don't see
the need for worrying about heart rate.
I found this by doing a search on google - many other sites have the same *estimating* formula.
None say anything about heartrates and weight training though - all refer to aerobics. dummies.comidOpen ↗
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I think you'll find that Weight training does raise the heart rate ! It certainly does for me. A 40
minutes workout cerainly has my heart going, though not all the time.
I think the problem is that terms are being mixed up. Weight training isn't aerobic but it does
help cardio fitness. Running on a treadmill is aerobic and also cardio. Aerobic is not the same as
cardio though the terms are often used to mean the same thing.
Thanks for the explanation. You are right, the terms are confusing and it seems that I am guilty of
being one who also makes the assumption they are one and the same.
Quoted message said:You have to be careful with WT because the amount of calories expended at the time is quite small.
But if it's done properly, and you are growing because of the WT then there is a much longer term
expenditure of calories. It's probably not wise to rely on this longer term expenditure, and think
of it as a bonus.
Ok, maybe that is more what I was thinking, but not conveying. It seems that many people will not
count the activity points for WT - due to the expended calories being slight. BUT ... since the
expenditure seems to carry for a longer period of time, should those AP's be taken anyway? Or is
this just another one of those *listen to your body* things?
Quoted message said:Interestingly high intensity Interval training (HIIT) has a similar effect apparently. This is
where you sprint for 30 seconds, then walk for 90, then sprint for 30 and so on. I assume it's the
mixture of aerobic and anaerobic activity that makes it work.
I was reading something about this the other day, can't remember what magazine though. I did find it
interesting, had thought it would be fairly easy to do on my treadmill ... if it didn't throw me off
in the process. <G> This article didn't do the 30/90 second routine though, it was more like 1
minute of running, 5 minutes of walking or something to that extent.
Thanks for coming to the rescue of my ignorance. <G>
Joyce
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