| It's important that you choose a workout program that | | | | The second type of muscle fiber is call Type B, which |
| will help to stimulate the particular muscle fiber type | | | | are fast twitch muscle fibers as well. They are usually |
| that will bring you the weight loss and body building | | | | used in short activities, but not all out paces like the |
| results that you really want. There are actually three | | | | Type A fibers. If you were to run at about 85% max |
| different types of muscle fibers in the body, and it's | | | | capacity, you'd bee using these fibers. They are able |
| important to learn about them to find the right program | | | | to endure longer and also use oxygen better than the |
| to help you build muscle and lose fat. | | | | Type A fibers do. |
| The first type Type A, which is the fast twitch fibers. | | | | Last of all, you have slow twitch muscle fibers. These |
| They take care of contractions that are the most | | | | are the fibers used for endurance activities that are |
| forceful, but they also fatigue very quickly. If you did | | | | done at low to medium intensity. They are able to |
| three reps of an all out bench press, these are the | | | | resist fatigue and use oxygen well. They are slower to |
| fibers you'd be using. This muscle fiber can't use | | | | contract, so you don't get as much force from these |
| oxygen well, which is why they don't work well with | | | | muscles. However, they rely on fat more as their fuel, |
| endurance activities. They rely on creatine phosphate | | | | which means you'll want to focus on these types of |
| and glucose and won't burn off body fat. | | | | muscles when you are trying to burn off fat. |