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Weights or Cardio? What's the Best Visceral Fat Burner + How Often, Long and Intense Do You Have to Train

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You don't have to be super fat to have sign. amounts of inter-organ fat. Visceral or organ fat is the nasty stuff that's "proctecting" your organs from harm... well, as long as it the way you live (bad dietary habits + no exercise) don't increase its volume and weight to abnormal levels. On the outside, people with high amounts of visceral fat can look anything from significantly obese to normal-weight (particularly if they're wearing the right clothes); and yet, normal-weight obese (skinny fat) individuals, as scientists call these people, do still have a similarly increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and all the other nasty diseases you can develop when your visceral fat floods your body with pro-inflammatory cytokines. HIIT is an excellent way to shed both subcutaneous and visceral body fat! Never Train To Burn Calories! Tabata = 14.2kcal /min ≠ Fat Loss 30s Intervals + 2:1 Work/Rec. Making HIIT a Hit Part I/II Making ...

Subcutaneous Fat: More than Unattractive Ballast

The latest research on obesity and the metabolic syndrome always focused on the negative effects of visceral fat and almost neglected the subcutaneous fat deposits, most of us find even more bothersome (due to their impact on our physical appeal). A recent study by Liu et al. ( Liu. 2010 ) investigated whether the focus on visceral fat was scientifically verifiable and found that subcutaneous fat is by far not the passive and unattractive ballast some scientists make it appear: Per 1-SD increment in either VAT or SAT , we observed elevated levels of fasting plasma glucose and triglyceride, lower levels of high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, and increased odds ratios for hypertension, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Bottom line: You better get rid (or ripped ;-) of both, to get on the safe and sexy side!
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