What is the best way to burn fat?
What is the best way to burn fat?
That question is asked by tons of people every day in their efforts to lose or even just control their weight. The answer to that question is both short and long at the same time. The short [answer] is a pretty straightforward one, and that is to exercise. The best way to burn fat is to get up, get out, and do something. To burn fat, you must burn off excess calories. To burn calories you’ve got to get your body moving.
The kind of exercise and how to go about doing it is where the complications can come in. The best way to burn fat is doing both cardio and weight lifting exercises.
Most of the time people will think of fat burning and just think of doing cardio exercise alone. Doing cardio will burn some calories but that is not the absolute best way to burn off the unwanted fat.
When you do cardio exercises such as walking or running your body will burn off fat as a fuel source at a higher rate than it would if you were just resting.
The key to burning off the most fat for your efforts is to increase the intensity of the exercise you are doing. Basically, you want to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. If you are exercising and you have no doubt that you can continue at the pace or level you are currently working at, more than likely you are not working out nearly hard enough to produce significant calorie burn and make the effort worth your time in the long run.
While you are doing your workout there should be a little bit of doubt creeping into the back of your mind causing you to wonder whether or not you can keep up the pace for the duration of your routine.
You may be reading this and thinking, “Why should I exercise hard like that when I heard from others that I can just walk outside and lose weight?” The reason for that is because for some reason many publications only like to give you partially true information.
It is true, it is possible to lose weight by just walking. What no one bothers to tell you is just how far you will need to walk in order to burn enough calories to contribute to your weight loss. It could be 3 or 4 miles or more in order to see the progress you are really after. A [casual] stroll may burn calories, but not enough for you to exercise for just one hour and be done. Increasing the intensity (speed, incline, step size, etc.) causes your body to work harder to complete the work. When you exercise harder you burn more calories. More calories burned means the fat melts away faster.
The next time you visit your gym, bump up the speed on your treadmill if you are running. Increase the incline on the treadmill if you are walking. Move the resistance up on the pedals of your elliptical or stairmaster machine. Do whatever you can do to make the exercise a little more difficult and your body will thank you for it later when you are lighter.
The next thing that helps to ensure you are on your way to doing what is best to burn fat is weight training. When you weight train properly, you can easily burn an equal amount of calories as a good cardio session. In addition to the initial calorie burn, you will keep burning calories at a [faster] rate for hours AFTER the workout is [finished]. If you only have time for either cardio or weight training and not both, the weight lifting should probably be your choice. [Knowing] exactly which exercises to do and how much [resistance] to use is a [huge] topic I will talk about later, but just know that the best way to burn fat [quickly] is to add weight training into your workout.
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