What is Cardio-vascular? | Does cardio burns muscle or fat? | Benefits | Science behind cardio

INTRODUCTION:

In this article, we will talk about cardio. All of your myths about cardio are going to be busted. Now, cardio is a short form of cardiovascular. It is a state where your heart beat is high near about 110 beats per minute. Normally, we have 75-80 beats per minute. It can be done with any activity like cycling, running, swimming, jogging, dancing etc. 

Cardio exercise

How does our heart reacts to it ?

Our heart pumps blood in our body. When we do cardio, our heart pumps blood more rapidly to different parts of our body. As a result of heart exercise and lungs exercise. Moreover, it is also beneficial for our brain because of the increased blood flow. If you are 20 years old, then you may not be able to understand my point but when you will be 30 or 40 years old, you will understand the importance of doing cardio. No matter who you are, men or women, you must do some cardio.

What is cardiovascular

Does cardio burn muscle ??

What will happen to your body when you do cardio ?

By doing cardio, you will burn calories. If you do 20 minutes cardio, you will burn 200 calories, if 30 minutes then 300 calories.

From where these 200 calories burnt from ?

Cardio burns calories

It came from your carbs, fat, muscle and water. Everyone is doing cardio to decrease their fat. But our body will start decreasing our muscle and taking most of the energy from our muscles because we are in catabolic state that means we are taking less protein in our diet.

Protein rich diet for cardio

What should we have to do to burn fat and not muscle ?

Simply, we should be in anabolic state that means we have to take more protein (1 gm per body weight) and less carbs in our diet. It does not matter if you are doing fat loss or muscle gain, you must be doing cardio according to your need. 

In muscle gain - 2 times a week

In fat loss - 3-4 times a week

If you want to burn fat from cardio, you must look at your diet first because less protein cause muscle loss and optimum protein cause fat loss. Any type of person in this world must target muscle gain and fat loss.

Cardio for heart health

CONCLUSION:

Your goal may be anything but you must remember that only doing cardio is not enough for your body. To build a good physique you should also aim at weight training, balanced diet and sleep. You should give your body proper amount of sleep for recover and healing process.