Exercising With Zerona

Many of our Zerona laser patients have a history of exercising. For some patients exercise is effective at keeping them in shape, but for many others exercise fails to remove fat in "problem areas”.

What Happens When You Exercise

Exercise is work that increases the metabolic rate, which in turn burns more calories. Ideally, calories burned would consist of stored fat, but that is not what happens initially. After the body utilizes the small amount of readily available energy in the form of blood sugar, it turns to glycogen—stored carbohydrates in the liver and muscles.

After approximately 25 minutes of moderate exercise the body will then begin to use fat stores to create energy. Fat is broken down into molecules of water, glycerol and free fatty acids. Free fatty acids are energy dense and break down much slower than blood sugar or stored glycogen. Even if you work out long enough, the fat you’re burning may not be from your problem areas.

You can’t target specific areas through exercise.

What Happens When You Use the Zerona Laser

In contrast, the Zerona laser metabolizes fats in the areas where the laser is pointed. The Zerona Laser liberates approximately 40 to 60 grams of fat in 40 minutes. Since a gram of fat is 9 calories this equates to at least 360 calories of pure fat—and that’s in just one session. Compare that to an exercise session: You may burn between 400 and 600 calories but it won’t be pure fat.

The key to losing the fat for good is increasing metabolic demand around the time of the laser session. We do that through a combination of short-term calorie restriction before the laser treatment and a 10-minute session of whole-body vibration after.

This combination increases the body’s immediate need for energy and fat liberated by the Zerona laser can then be utilized. Lose the fat by exercising immediately after your Zerona session.

I’ve previously blogged about several other strategies to achieve maximum fat reduction. We always work with each individual patient to determine the best strategy for maximum fat reduction. Our latest service is the Turbo-Charged Zerona Cleanse. In this treatment, we combine the Zerona laser with a medically assisted cleanse to burn the maximum amount of fat. More on that later…