Are you fed up with the fat around your waist, hips or thighs? If the answer is yes, you may be at the point where you can do something effective to improve your appearance, health and well being for the rest of your life.
It is essential that you understand these three things, before I go any further
- weight loss and fat loss are two different things
- you can lose weight on a diet, but not fat
- there is just one way to lose fat from your body and that is by exercise
Therefore if you want to rid your body of unwanted fat, you must embrace and do a fat burning exercise regimen.
Does An Optimum Fat Burning Exercise Exist?
There is no such thing as a best exercise routine for fat loss. But, there is an exercise regimen that would be best for you personally.
There are two broad categories of exercise. They are aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise.
Jogging, swimming, brisk walking and bicycle riding are some examples of aerobic fat burning exercise activities. An example of anaerobic exercise is strength or resistance training. There are other examples of anaerobic exercise, but to discuss them in this article would cause me to deviate from the main message of this article.
A good strength training regimen is most effective in achieving fat loss. However strength training does not appeal to everybody. You dont have to do strength training to rid your body of the unwanted fat. You can lose the fat by doing aerobic
exercise that burns fat.
What Happens To Your Body During Aerobic Exercise?
When doing fat burning exercise, your body does not immediately begin to burn fat. There are stages it goes through before it uses fat for energy. In the first few minutes of exercise, your body uses carbohydrates for energy and not fat. This lasts for approximately 10 minutes. At that point, you begin to use fat for energy.
Fat Burning happens when you exercise at the right level of exertion for you. You know that you are exerting yourself at the correct level for you, when your body needs more oxygen. How can you tell if it is the right level for you?
- your rate of breathing is faster than normal, but you are not breathless
- you will feel some sweat at the back of your neck and at the base of your back
- If you are “out of breath” and find it difficult to speak, while exercising, you are pushing yourself too hard for your current level of fitness
If you experience dizziness or lightheadedness, it is not a good sign. It means that you are overexerting yourself and you should stop.
Your body will not begin to burn fat for energy, if you do not exert yourself sufficiently. Your body will carry on using carbohydrates for energy. If this is what happens, you will lose mostly water weight, which leads to a decrease in your metabolism. This is not what you want, because you burn more fat with a higher metabolic rate.
Also please understand that just because you reached the fat burning stage, does not mean you will stay there. To continue burning fat, you must maintain the pace that is right for you.
What Fat Burning Exercise Regimen Will You Do?
There is so much to know before deciding on a fat burning exercise regimen. It is important to get this right, because getting it wrong will lead to upset and frustration in connection with your weight loss. It could even lead you to abandoning your weight loss efforts.
Will you do strength training or aerobic exercise? Or will you do both?
Are all types of aerobic exercise equally effective at fat burning?
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