Increasing your metabolism To achieve sustained, permanent, and long-lasting weight loss, it is imperative that you boost your metabolism. And the most effective way to increase your metabolism is to have a greater proportion of functional muscles in your body. The only way to build this lean muscle mass so you can increase your metabolism is through “Strength Training”. There is no other method that works wonders on the metabolism like strength training. By performing strength training, you effectively increase the amount of functional muscle mass in your body, thus increasing your metabolism. After a strength training session, your body will experience a significant increase or “spike” in metabolism, allowing you to burn much more fat than before.
It’s all about lean muscle “The amount of fat the body can burn is directly related to the more muscle mass your body can hold.” If your muscular system can hold more energy and use that energy significantly when performing strength training, it will be able to burn the calories you eat and the excess fat on your body. In other words, as your muscles become stronger and can hold more energy, you should be able to release that energy more efficiently to increase your metabolism and burn the excess calories you ate. Once we can build more muscle mass through our own strength, our body will become more efficient at burning fat. It is also the amount of lean muscle mass on your body that makes you look good. Once you’ve burned the excess fat from your body, the lean muscle mass beneath your skin will be exposed, making you look healthy, energetic, and well-toned.
Reduce your daily calories For years we have been told to use diets to remove excess fat from our bodies. The problem with this concept is that the low-calorie diet would put the body into starvation mode, where the body retains fat and uses precious muscle tissue for energy. This would then lower metabolism causing greater muscle loss and when the diet is broken the unwanted fat would not only return but actually increase due to the lowered metabolism. The way around this is to reduce your daily calorie intake by just a small amount of calories. This prevents hunger mechanisms from taking effect. You can do this by creating a seven-day eating plan and writing down everything you eat that week, then calculating the calories you ate with a calorie counter. Divide this figure by seven and you have your daily calorie value. Reduce the daily calorie value by a few hundred calories per day and no more. This will generate slow weight loss and most of it will be fat loss only. Daily calories should be consumed with small, frequent meals throughout the day.
Fast walking burns fat All you need to do now is incorporate ‘Fast Walking’ into your weight loss program to speed up the burning of excess fat. Not only is fast walking better, much easier on the hips, but it also produces a greater percentage of fat loss than jogging or running. Here are some benefits of speed walking. Easy to perform Most conventional All natural exercise Does not cause injuries Can be done anywhere The best minimal effort exercise for fat loss
“I cannot emphasize enough how fast walking is necessary in any weight loss program.” Your next step? To take what you just learned and apply it to your daily weight loss regimen.
Published by May Healthy Lifestyle Author: Gary Matthews