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Fat Burning Workouts – A Simple Guide

Friday, October 9th, 2009

When you have the perseverance to stick with fat burning workouts they become pretty simple.

A fat burning workout tip is doing some sort of aerobic exercise every day for 30 minutes. Aerobic exercise is any activity that gets your heart pumping faster but not so fast that it struggles or you’re out of breath. Walking, running, swimming, even some types of yard work are aerobic exercises. Include intervals into the aerobic work outs. These are bursts of higher activity that help boost the metabolism even more. That means sprint between periods of walking, or burst to speed while swimming at an steady pace.

The health guides for fat burning workouts that say to do aerobic exercise three times a week or even five times a week are wrong. Exercise each and every day. Pick an activity you can maintain so that you can stick with it seven days a week for the rest of your life. The best time for aerobic activity is before breakfast, so the body burns stored fat. Throw in an extra 10-30 minute walk after lunch or dinner to this exercise routing, in addition to the 30 minutes. Finally, find opportunities to move.  This can mean anything from parking further from the office so you have to walk further to the door, to using the stairs instead of the elevator, to raking leaves instead of blowing them.

Do simple weight exercise three times a week. Toned muscles make your metabolism speed into overdrive. A faster metabolism means burning more calories, and thus more fat, even when you’re simply performing routine, day to day activities. You’ll also feel better and look better just because of the toned muscle.

Another tip for fat burning workouts is not to skip breakfast. If you do your body gets a message that it’s starving, and breaks into slow metabolism mode. A slow metabolism is the enemy of fat burning. Another way to avoid slow metabolism is to make sure to eat enough every day. For most people this means at least 1200 calories each day. Any fewer and your body is back in starvation mode, working against your efforts to burn fat.

Fat burning workouts combined with healthy eating can have amazing results. They don’t have to be hard. In fact if it’s too hard you’ll lose motivation and drop the program. Most people make it less than a month with a new workout routine. Don’t be one of these start and quit health enthusiasts.