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How To Tone Muscles And Burn Fat

March 24, 2009 Filed Under: Muscle Training 

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, 7 days a week, do some variety of aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise is exercise that gets your heart pumping faster but not so fast that it struggles or you’re gasping for breath. This includes walking, jogging, swimming, stationary bike, and a host of other activities. Include intervals into the aerobic work outs. Periods of higher activity that help boost the metabolism even more are intervals. That means jog between periods of walking, or burst to speed while swimming at an easy pace.

The health guides that say to do aerobic exercise three times a week or even five times a week are wrong. The body needs this work every day. Pick an exercise routine you can maintain so that you can stick with it seven days a week for the rest of your life. In order to burn stored fat make sure to exercise before breakfast or at least before your next meal. Throw in 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 taking 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.

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 create amazing results. It doesn’t have to be hard. In fact if it’s too hard you’ll lose motivation and quit the program. Too many people get hyped up on working out after Xmas, or just before the summer beach season, but don’t even make it for a month before the difficult workouts ground them into stopping. Don’t be one of the many short term health fanatics that will remain over weight until they can get it right.

Many fitness fanatics are always on the lookout for exercises burning body fat that they can do just before that holiday or after Xmas. What they don’t realize is that they need a well balanced diet program such as the fat loss 4 idiots to stay trim and in shape all year round.

Related Reading:

Cardio Strength Training: Torch Fat, Build Muscle, and Get Stronger Faster
The New High Intensity Training: The Best Muscle-Building System You've Never Tried
Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training: An Illustrated Guide to Your Muscles in Action
Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength
Muscle Logic : Escalating Density Training

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