BEST WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT QUICK

Lots of people use moderately paced aerobic exercise, as a fat burning routine. Could this, actually, be wearing you down, without increasing your body’s capacity or burning fat?

Does This Exercise Routine Sound Familiar?

In efforts to get fit and lose fat, you join the gym, and start hitting the treadmill or elliptical trainer. You start with three sessions a week. But those 30 or 40 minute sessions don’t seem to be doing very much.

So, being very determined, this person, who could be you or I, adds another session, convinced that this’ll make the vital difference.

Before you know it, we’re looking at 5 sessions, which we’re absolutely convinced will do the trick, especially as we’re watching our diet too. Yet, somehow the fat’s not going anywhere. Now, if you do this you might feel ‘fitter’, at first, but nobody’s noticing any difference in the shape of your body.

The End Result

So you keep working at it, until you start to feel drained, worn down and no longer feeling fit at all. Wow, that’s pretty frustrating- all that effort and you actually feel worse than when you started.

Sure, you feel ‘better’, at first, but don’t notice any fat loss, long after a routine’s had a chance to work. So you keep upping things until you feel like you’ve been hit by a train, with no energy to spare.

Why Does This Happen?

What many people don’t realize is that aerobic exercise actually trains your body to store fat, in preparation for the next session. So, even if, in the short term, it seems easier to climb several sets of stairs, your body is preparing itself to go through the motions in the future.

Of course, fairly easy work like climbing stairs might feel easier, but this kind of routine doesn’t really help with anything more intense. If you’re asked to go outside of the realm of moderate paced exercise, you’ll find your body’s not that well adapted.

In essence, aerobic exercise makes your body good at ‘easy work’ but doesn’t actually increase your body’s capacity for anything harder.

The Alternative

Thankfully, there’s an alternative, which is becoming more and more widespread in the world of fitness and fat loss. Where, once, aerobic exercise was dominant, science has shown that other forms of exercise are far more effective.

If you want to burn fat, then you need to consider a program, that gives you high intensity, resistance based exercise. In other words, you work hard, for a short period, in order to actually increase your body’s capacity for work.

This type of exercise burns fat, after the exercise is completed, rather than storing it up for next time. This vital difference is down to the fact that the harder your body works, the more energy it needs to restore your muscles.

The Benefits

And, as you’re working intensely, for short periods of time, you don’t spend all day at the gym. It’s common for this type of routine to last 15-20 minutes, a few times a week. You need to rest between sessions, so that the full effect is felt, as your body repairs itself.

Finding a way to improve fitness and fat loss which actually depends on getting good rest will, of course, help to stop the feeling that you’re permanently run down, associated with all that high frequency aerobic exercise.

Plus you’re actually burning fat, not storing it up, which is what we all really want!