Tuesday, January 27, 2009

How Often Should You Exercise

By Ron C George

When you have the perseverance to stick with fat burning workouts they become pretty easy. Combined with eating in a way that helps promote fat burning, they result in a leaner, meaner you.

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 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 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. - 15995

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