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Your medical definition of Anaerobic Exercises in the USA

Anaerobic exercises are designed to build and tone muscles. They are not the same as aerobic exercises which build stamina and help lose weight.

If you put a muscle under stress, then some breakdown of the tissue takes place. The amazing human body will then rebuild those muscle fibres with bigger and stronger tissue. This is a simplistic picture of how anaerobic exercise works. A typical body builder will undertake strength training anaerobic exercises repeatedly breaking down tissue at the limit of the exercise, then allowing the muscle to regrow as a bigger better toned muscle set.

You should not exclusively undertake anaerobic exercise without some aerobic exercise as to do so could result in oversize muscle groups and no decent circulatory or lung capacity to cope with the extra demands.

Exercise should be a balance for your body and not be driven by aesthetics. Sadly, all too often, the demands on young people for the perfect body outweigh commonsense.

Broadly speaking, aerobic exercises can help more with weight loss - anaerobic exercises help less (they tend to build muscle).

Examples are:

Weight lifting
Machines that offer resistance
Dumbbells

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Anaerobic exercises will help build and tone muscles.