Fat Burning Workouts To Lose The Extra Weight
January 9th, 2009
Losing weight initially with any exercise program and healthy eating habits at first seems easy. Seeing results right away is great motivation. But if your fat loss starts to slow down and you don’t see the visible effects it’s hard to continue.
The initial efforts will help you lose weight quickly but then it becomes harder. You hit a plateau and nothing seems to be working. Don’t lose faith. You may just need to train differently by adding variety and challenging yourself. There are ways to reach 100% of your fat burning goals and most importantly help keep you there with smart training and a good diet.
Sometimes the difficulty in shedding those last few pounds may be because of lack of persistence. You may say that you’re happy with what you’ve accomplished so far and tend to slack off and go back to your old habits. You start to give up before you reach your final goal.
Giving up before you reach your final goal can have negative long term effects. The next time you try it will be even more difficult to stick to your goals. But if you persist until you’ve reached your goal you’ll develop a great habit of sticking to goals which leads to a positive morale boost and healthier you.
Most of the time the problem isn’t that you don’t work hard enough but that you may just be training wrong. Cardio alone is a great way to burn extra calories but not the best way. Strength training with long rests between exercises can be inefficient use of your time and less effective in burning fat.
The most effective way to burn fat and keep it off is by combining both cardio and resistance and also by adding variety and increasing intensity. Never stick to the same workout for more than 6 weeks.
Following the same routine for more than 6 weeks can also lead you to plateau. Your muscles adapt and work more efficiently therefore require less energy. This burns less calories. This is why it’s important to add variety and increase intensity.
If you walk everyday for example at the same pace and for the same amount of time, try increasing your pace for a few minutes or walking for a little longer than usual. Challenge yourself each time by increasing your pace a little or walking for just a little longer each time.
Don’t perform the same exercises with the same intensity for more than 4 to 6 weeks. Make sure to add some variety by trying different exercises and adding intensity as they exercises become easier. This way you’ll keep your body challenged and continue to burn fat and keep it off.
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