What is the best way to burn fat?
Many people ask that question when they need to lose or just control their weight. The answer to that question is both easy and difficult at the same time. The short answer is one that is somewhat obvious, and that is to exercise. The best way to burn fat is to get up, get out, and do something. In order to burn fat, you’ve got to burn calories. Calorie burn comes from activity and getting your body moving.
The kind of exercise and how to go about doing it is where the complications can come in. The best way to burn fat is doing both cardio and weight lifting exercises.
[Usually]people think cardio is the only way to go in order to burn fat. Doing cardio does burn calories but is not the single best way to burn off excess weight.
When you do cardio exercises such as walking or running your body will burn off fat as a fuel source at a higher rate than it would if you were just resting.
The key to burning off the most fat for your efforts is to increase the intensity of the exercise you are doing. Basically, you want to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. If you are sure that you can keep going at the pace you are exercising at, then there is a very good chance that you are not exercising hard enough to burn a decent amount of calories and make the effort worth your time in the long run.
While you are doing your workout there should be a little bit of doubt creeping into the back of your mind causing you to wonder whether or not you can keep up the pace for the duration of your routine.
You may be reading this and thinking, “Why should I exercise hard like that when I heard from others that I can just walk outside and lose weight?” The reason for that is because for some reason many publications only like to give you partially true information.
It is true, you can lose weight by simply walking. What no one bothers to tell you is just how far you will need to walk in order to burn enough calories to contribute to your weight loss. It might be 2 to 4 miles needed to see the kind of progress you seek. A leisurely stroll may burn calories, but not enough for you to put in just one hour and be good to go. Increasing the intensity (speed, incline, step size, etc.) causes your body to work harder to complete the work. Harder work simply means more calories burned. More calories burned means the fat melts away faster.
The next time you visit your gym, bump up the speed on your treadmill if you are running. Increase the incline on the treadmill if you are walking. Add more resistance to the elliptical or stairmaster. Do something to make the exercise a little harder and your body will thank you afterwards when the weight is gone.
The next thing that helps to ensure you are on your way to doing what is best to burn fat is weight training. When you weight train properly, you can easily burn an equal amount of calories as a good cardio session. In addition to the initial calorie burn, you will keep burning calories at a [faster] rate for hours AFTER the workout is [finished]. It is for this reason that if you only have time for cardio or weight training, the weight training should take precedence. Finding out exactly what exercises to do and how much weight to lift is a lengthy topic I will cover by itself, but just know that the best way to burn fat fast is to get weight lifting into your routine and keep it there.
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March 10th, 2010 at 9:49 am
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