Friday, January 30, 2009

Whats A Good Fat Burning Exercise

By Ron

Fat burning workouts are pretty simple, as long as you have the motivation to stick with them. Pretty soon you'll be slimmer and trimmer if you combine them with a healthy eating style.

Every day, seven days a week, do some sort of aerobic activity. When your heart beats more quickly, not so quick that it struggles or your sucking in air hard, but sufficient to make you sweat you're doing aerobic exercise. This includes walking, jogging, swimming, stationary bike, and a host of other activities. Include intervals into the aerobic work outs. These are bursts of higher activity that help boost the metabolism even more. That means sprint between periods of walking, or burst to speed while swimming at an easy pace.

It's wrong to think exercise only has to be three to five days a week. Don't believe it. The body needs this work every day. Pick an activity you can maintain so that you can keep it up seven days a week for the rest of your life. The best time for aerobic activity is before breakfast, so the body burns stored fat. Add an extra 10-30 minute walk after lunch or dinner to this exercise routine, in addition to the 30 minutes. Finally, look for opportunities to move. This can mean anything from parking further from the office so you have to walk from the car to the door, to using the stairs instead of the elevator, to raking leaves rather than blowing them.

Tone and build muscles with weight training at least 3 during times each week. Bigger muscles make your metabolism speed into overdrive. A faster metabolism will use up more calories even when you're not moving. You'll also generally look and feel better.

Don't skip meals. Doing so drops your body into starvation mode where it burns calories more slowly. A sluggish metabolism is no friend of fat burning. Another way to avoid slow metabolism is to make sure to eat enough every day. For most people this means eating at least 1200 calories each day. Any fewer and your body is back in starvation mode, working against your efforts to use up fat.

Fat burning workouts combined with healthy eating can create amazing results. They don't have to be difficult. Too hard is bad because when a work out is too hard people quit. Too many people get over enthusiastic on working out after Christmas, or just before the summer beach season, but don't even make it for a month before the difficult workouts ground them into quitting. Don't be one of the many flash in the pan health enthusiasts. - 16003

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