An Easy Approach to Losing Weight
If your goal is to lose weight and more importantly keep it off a healthy metabolism which is in effect your body's engine should be considered to be your very best fat burning friend.
Most of us would like to burn more fat for fuel both at work and when we are resting as it is unlikely we are one of those extraordinary people blessed by the fast-metabolism gods.
Now-a-days new methods of losing weight, improving strength and fitness are emerging.
Ideas that place more emphasis on building metabolic fitness and less emphasis on what you weigh on the bathroom scales as this is where the results are.
Becoming metabolically fit means your body is transformed from a fat storing one to a fat burning one so you end are more likely to end up with a stronger, leaner and slimmer body.
In the past we have placed our focus on 'cardio' low intensity endurance type activities to burn fuel (calories).
We paid little attention to what happened after the session was over.
Now the focus is on making sure the exercise is intense enough to increase the metabolic rate (the rate we burn fuel) long after the session is over.
Any wonder our results have been disappointing in the past when we could exercise for hours each week and still end up with a flabby overweight body.
We were in fact doing the very things that worked against our metabolism not with it.
Restrictive food dieting and long slow activity is not the answer as both slow the metabolism down which is the opposite of what we need to build good health or lose weight.
Where, how and when calories are used is determined by our hormones and having high metabolic fitness means an elevated use of burning fat during activity or exercise and also at rest.
You want your body to be burning more fuel every minute of the day and night as this is your ticket to weight loss as well as good health.
There is only one type of exercise that will boost metabolism and that is proper strength training exercise.
The health and condition of the muscles is what governs the state of the metabolism and they must be toned and strong if you want your metabolic motor running at its peak.
Weak flabby muscles will never ever get you a firm and slim body.
So, you need a strength training program that takes your major muscle groups though their full ranges of movement under a load.
Six to eight exercises are all that is needed and just 2-3 sessions each week will fire up your fat burning machinery if you put some effort into your program.
Add to that program small meals throughout the day every 2-3 hours each with a source of protein and you will have the combination that will stimulate the release of the fat burning hormones in your body which is the easiest and quickest way to losing weight and toning up.
There is no easier and more effective way.
Most of us would like to burn more fat for fuel both at work and when we are resting as it is unlikely we are one of those extraordinary people blessed by the fast-metabolism gods.
Now-a-days new methods of losing weight, improving strength and fitness are emerging.
Ideas that place more emphasis on building metabolic fitness and less emphasis on what you weigh on the bathroom scales as this is where the results are.
Becoming metabolically fit means your body is transformed from a fat storing one to a fat burning one so you end are more likely to end up with a stronger, leaner and slimmer body.
In the past we have placed our focus on 'cardio' low intensity endurance type activities to burn fuel (calories).
We paid little attention to what happened after the session was over.
Now the focus is on making sure the exercise is intense enough to increase the metabolic rate (the rate we burn fuel) long after the session is over.
Any wonder our results have been disappointing in the past when we could exercise for hours each week and still end up with a flabby overweight body.
We were in fact doing the very things that worked against our metabolism not with it.
Restrictive food dieting and long slow activity is not the answer as both slow the metabolism down which is the opposite of what we need to build good health or lose weight.
Where, how and when calories are used is determined by our hormones and having high metabolic fitness means an elevated use of burning fat during activity or exercise and also at rest.
You want your body to be burning more fuel every minute of the day and night as this is your ticket to weight loss as well as good health.
There is only one type of exercise that will boost metabolism and that is proper strength training exercise.
The health and condition of the muscles is what governs the state of the metabolism and they must be toned and strong if you want your metabolic motor running at its peak.
Weak flabby muscles will never ever get you a firm and slim body.
So, you need a strength training program that takes your major muscle groups though their full ranges of movement under a load.
Six to eight exercises are all that is needed and just 2-3 sessions each week will fire up your fat burning machinery if you put some effort into your program.
Add to that program small meals throughout the day every 2-3 hours each with a source of protein and you will have the combination that will stimulate the release of the fat burning hormones in your body which is the easiest and quickest way to losing weight and toning up.
There is no easier and more effective way.
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