Will you run faster if you lose weight?

Answer 1

• Any type of consistent cardio exercise can help you lose weight.

• Running (cardio exercise) is very good for weight loss (but it is also hard on your body). Cardio walking to lose weight is also very good. It is easier on your body than running or jogging and it is sustainable long term. For more information about how to use cardio to lose weight, see the related question, further down this page, listed under Related Questions

Running can help you lose weight. If you stick to eating healthy foods and stay away from junk foods, running will help you start to lose weight.

Answer 2

To some extent, a person with less excess weight (someone who is not overweight or obese) will run somewhat faster. Beyond that, a person at a normal body weight should not strive to lose weight as it reall will not make them move much faster.

Answer 3

DOES RUNNING HELP YOU TO LOSE WEIGHT

Yes, running can help you to lose weight.

At the bottom of this answer, there is a page link to a free program to get you started!

Any type of regular cardiovascular (cardio) exercise can help you lose weight because you burn calories both during exercise and afterwards for a while. There are many different kinds of cardio exercise. In fact, any activity that increases your heart and respiration rates is cardio exercise.

However, there are different degrees of cardio ranging from mild to intense.

It is helpful to divide them into mild and intense. There is an inverse proportion between intensity and duration.

Intense exercise must be brief! For example, you can sprint 100 meters, but you cannot sprint 5000 meters.

Intense cardio exercises include running, interval training, and graded exercise protocol.

Brisk walking is an example of mild cardio exercise.

Mild cardio exercises keep your maximum heart rate at about 60 to 65%. Intense cardio exercises involve a maximum heart rate that is considerably higher (usually up to about 85% or even 90%). In addition, because intense cardio is intense, it must be brief, which is great if you are lazy or bored by prolonged mild cardio exercise such as brisk walking.

Moreover, intense cardio works better.

So, why does it work better?

Well, though mild cardio burns more body fat than intense cardio exercise does, by doing mild cardio regularly your body will 'adapt' to mild cardio. It will adapt by storing fat during the recovery period until your next mild cardio exercise session.

Not good!

You want to burn fat not store it.

Whereas, intense cardio burns more fat overall because it stimulates more fat burning between intense cardio exercise sessions.


DOES RUNNING HELP YOU TO LOSE WEIGHT, ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

However, running will not help you to lose weight unless you eating habits are correct. Most of all avoid or strictly limit all refined processed carbohydrates (apart from a rare treat).

As deliciously addictive as they are, over-consumption of refined processed carbohydrates is a major cause of weight gain, obesity, high blood pressure, Heart disease, borderline and type 2 Diabetes, and many other diet related diseases and conditions.

Replace those foods with more of the specific fat burning proteins, and take advantage of the 'thermic' effect of these foods. Drinking plenty of water will enable you body to process these foods correctly. If you are unsure what these foods are, you will find a list, plus more about the thermic effect of food, at the bottom of this answer.

DOES RUNNING HELP YOU TO LOSE WEIGHT, SUMMARY

I suggest two to three intense cardio sessions each week. In particular, if you have not been doing intense cardio exercise, I recommend starting with GXP (see the Intense Cardio Plan page link at the bottom of this answer).

If you want to do even better, add strength/weight training to your running or intense cardio exercise. This will build more muscle and muscle is your metabolic furnace that burns calories 24 hours per day and not just when you are exercising.

At the bottom of this answer, there are page links to two free plans, one page link is for an Intense Running Cardio Exercise Plan and the other page link is for Weight/Strength Training Exercises and Routines, suitable for beginners or more advanced.

So, for the free plans and instructions use the links given below.

1. Does Running Help You to Lose Weight, Intense Cardio Plan
2. List of Refined Processed Carbohydrates (to avoid or limit apart from an occasional treat)
3. List of Specific Fat Burning Proteins (to replace the refined processed carbohydrates), and more about the thermic effect of these foods
4. To Running for Weight Loss add Strength/Weight Training Exercises to Burn Calories 24 Hours Per Day (suitable for males or females, beginners or intermediate

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Answer 4

Any type of consistent cardio exercise can help you loseweight.Running (cardio exercise) is very good for weight loss(but it is also hard on your body). Cardio walking to lose weightis also very good. It is easier on your body than running orjogging and it is sustainable long term. For more information abouthow to use cardio to lose weight, see the related question,further down this page, listed under Related QuestionsRunning can help you lose weight. If you stick to eating healthyfoods and stay away from junk foods, running will help you start tolose weight.

Answer 5

Any aerobic exercise combined with a sensible diet can help lose weight.