Exercise Away Body Fat

Everyone wants to get in shape and have an attractive figure – men and women. But not everyone knows just how to accomplish this. We know that we need to move more and eat less, but is there a simple program that can show us how to do just that? Is there a way to exercise away fat?

What you put in your mouth

Before you even start an exercise plan, you need to evaluate what you are eating that might be adding to unwanted fat and pounds. All of the exercise in the world is not going to help you become slimmer unless you start reducing the amount of fat that you are consuming. Try to incorporate more fruits and vegetables in your diet to start lessening fat. Remove butter and oils from your cooking and start finding alternative ways of cooking – baking, broiling, steaming. Try to look at each meal as an opportunity to have one food from each food group – lean choices only – and you will be well on your way.

How regular exercise can help burn away fat

You don’t need to be a long distance runner or an Olympic swimmer to exercise away your fat. Fat is stored energy in your body that you consumed, but did not use. In order to use it up, you need to burn calories. Part of this equation is reducing your dietary consumption, but the other part is to exercise on a regular basis. This will help you to burn calories as well as create a fast burning metabolism that will be burning calories even when you’re sitting on the couch.

What you need to do is commit to at least five days of aerobic exercise each week. This is exercise that gets both your heart and your lungs pumping. You want to be breaking a sweat when you’re doing your favorite exercise and have a slight difficulty finishing sentences. This form of exercise burns the most fat and will aid in your overall weight loss goals. Examples of aerobic fat burning exercise are running, walking, dancing, aerobic classes, swimming, hiking, biking, etc.

Intervals

You will also want to try to increase the intensity of some of your workouts each week. By doing intervals of harder exercise then rest times, you will cause your body to burn even more calories in the same amount of time. If you’re walking, you would warm up at a normal pace for five minutes, and then walk as fast as you can for thirty seconds to a minute, then you would slow down for a few minutes until your breath and heart are slowed down. Repeat these intervals throughout a long workout and you’ll be fat burning the whole time.

Add some weight

Next, you will want to include some sort of strength training program. This allows your body to build muscle which burns more calories than your fat does, which then starts to burn away the fat as well. Try to strength train two to three times a week with rest days in between increasing your weights as you become stronger.

By Gareth Barrow