Thursday, January 29, 2009

Whats A Good Fat Burning Exercise

By Ron C George

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 exercise. When your heart pumps faster, not so fast it struggles, but enough to make you sweat you're doing aerobic exercise. Walking, running, swimming, even some forms of yard work are aerobic exercises. Include intervals into the aerobic work outs. These are bursts of higher activity that help boost the metabolism even more. For example if walking, run for a minute.

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 muscles with weight training at least three times a week. Toned muscles make your metabolism speed into overdrive. A faster metabolism will burn more calories even when you're sitting still. You'll also generally look and feel better.

Definitely don't skip breakfast, lunch or dinner. If you do your body gets a message that it's starving, and breaks into slow metabolism mode. A sluggish metabolism is the enemy of fat burning. Another way to stop a slow metabolism is to make sure to eat enough food every day. For most people this means consuming at least 1200 calories each day. Any less and your body drops into starvation mode, working against your efforts to burn fat.

Fat burning workouts shared with healthy eating can have amazing results. It doesn't have to be hard. In fact if it's too hard you'll lose motivation and drop the workout plan. Too many people get all worked up and fanatical on fitness and working out after Xmas, or just before that well earned summer beach vacation, but don't even make it for a month before the difficult workouts ground them into quitting. Don't be one of these flash in the pan health enthusiasts. - 15485

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