Fitness training can be divided into strength training and aerobic exercise, each of which has its own advantages. So, what’s the difference between long-term weight training and long-term aerobic exercise?

Difference one: body proportion

Long-term strength training people will gradually increase muscle mass, the body will gradually become tight, girls are more likely to have a buttock, waistcoat line, long legs, boys are more likely to have inverted triangle, kirin arm, abdominal figure, wearing clothes will be more beautiful.

People who perform aerobic exercise for a long time will reduce their body fat rate, muscle will also be lost, and the body will become thinner and wizened after slimming down, and the body proportion will not be too good.

Difference two: the difference in metabolic rate

Long-term strength training people, the increase in muscle mass will increase the basal metabolic rate, you can unconsciously consume more calories every day, helping to build a lean body.

People who perform aerobic exercise for a long time will increase the active metabolic rate, consume body fat, and the basic metabolic rate will not increase, and there is a certain chance of rebound after stopping exercise.

Difference three: the difference in physical adaptation

Long-term strength training people, their own strength will gradually improve, will gradually adapt to the intensity of training, this time you need to increase the weight and strength, in order to continue to strengthen the muscle dimension, improve the proportion of the body, otherwise the body development is easy to fall into a bottleneck period.

And long-term aerobic exercise, the body’s oxygen supply capacity will increase, heat consumption will decline, you need to increase time and replace more efficient fat burning exercise, in order to break through the bottleneck period, continue to slim down.

Summary: Whether it is strength training or aerobic exercise, your heart and lung function, physical endurance will be improved, bone density will be improved, cell regeneration ability will be improved, the body will maintain a relatively healthy state, vitality will be more abundant, can slow down the aging rate.

In fact, long-term strength training and long-term aerobic exercise have their own advantages, the specific choice to determine according to personal goals and physical conditions, you can also combine the two ways of exercise training, to achieve better results.