Increase Stomach Fat Loss
February 24, 2009 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
While you may have heard the best way for stomach fat loss is to perform hundreds of ab crunches, the reality is that just increasing your cardiovascular exercise is an excellent way to see more stomach fat loss.
Abdominal crunches are an excellent exercise to tone the core muscles, but until you lose weight those muscles will remain hidden. To get them out in the open and see the most stomach fat loss, combine abdominal crunches with plenty of cardiovascular exercise.
Taking a brisk, 30-minute walk most days of the week will increase stomach fat loss. Increasing your walks to 45 minutes and spending 15 minutes on ab crunches will have you with a flat belly in time for bikini season.
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Use Intervals to Burn Fat Not Muscle
January 26, 2009 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
Scientists have found that a great way to burn fat, not muscle is to use interval training to increase your metabolism. Short bursts of intense exercise combined with moderate effort improve lung capacity and tone muscles in a shorter amount of time than moderate activity alone
Burn fat not muscle by warming up for about two minutes, then sprint quickly for 15 seconds. Slow down and walk at a moderate pace for 2 minutes. Continue to alternate walking and sprinting for 10 minutes each day.
Following this fast workout will burn fat not muscle and help you lose weight and tone muscles at the same time. Don’t forget to also reduce the number of calories you eat.
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Burn Calories By Fidgeting
January 22, 2009 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
A study by the Mayo Clinic has found that people who fidget burn more calories. You, too, can burn calories by fidgeting. With plenty of fidgeting, you could potentially lose weight without even going to the gym. For example, you can burn calories by:
- chewing gum and burn 11 calories per hour
- standing instead of sitting and burn 20 calories per hour
- tap your toes and burn 9 calories per hour
While it may not seem that you’re burning very many calories, it does add up over time. Fidget and burn calories by going to the gym and lose even more weight. If you move every time you have the opportunity, Mayo Clinic researchers found that you could burn almost 400 calories a day.
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Fat Burning Tips in Winter
January 14, 2009 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
A study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers found that activity levels dropped the most in December, January and February. If you’re finding yourself less active, try these fat burning tips to avoid stalling your weight loss. You can burn 100 extra calories by choosing some of the following activities, rather than relaxing on your favorite lounge chair.
- Ice skate for 13 minutes
- Shovel snow for 15 minutes
- Go bowling for 30 minutes
- Walk laps around the mall for 18 minutes
- Swim in an indoor pool for 15 minutes
- Dance in your living room for 20 minutes
Anything that gets your heart burning is a great fat burning tip. Don’t let the cold winter months let you pack on extra pounds! You can continue to burn fat even when the temperatures drop.
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Walk for Fat Burning Weight Loss
January 12, 2009 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
When you want to engage in a great exercise for fat burning weight loss, choose walking! Walking is an excellent exercise that is gentler on your joints than running, and can be done almost anywhere.
When walking, you can lose weight faster if you vary your walks throughout the week. For 3 days a week, focus on timing your walks. Aim to walk for at least 30 minutes each day at a comfortable pace.
For 1 or 2 days a week, add in short bouts of walking faster, then slow back down. Aim to walk fast for 2-5 minutes at a time, and then resume a comfortable pace for 2-5 minutes.
At least one day a week, plan a long walk. If you’ve been walking for 30 minutes daily, increase your walks by 15 – 30 minutes. This will help boost the fat burning weight loss you’re looking for.
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Burn Fat Gain Muscle Have Fun
January 7, 2009 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
You will be more motivated to burn fat gain muscle if you are having fun while doing it. While losing weight is often a goal that people state, the truth of the matter is that there is plenty of hard work that is necessary in order to lose weight. If it was easy, then everyone would be thin! If you are working towards the goal of burn fat gain muscle, then you should also have a goal of having fun!
You can have fun by choosing different workouts, which will not only help you stay motivated by doing different things, but you will work different parts of your body with different workouts. One day you could run, another day spend an hour playing basketball, while on the third day you could swim for 90 minutes. You will burn fat and gain muscle by working out on a consistent basis and sticking with it.
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Best Way to Exercise to Burn Fat
January 6, 2009 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
The best way to exercise to burn fat is to combine both cardiovascular exercise with weight training. When you combine both forms of exercise, you build strength and increase your metabolism — even during those times when you are not actively exercising.
When you are first starting an exercise program, you should aim for 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week. You can alternate cardiovascular exercise (walking, jogging, aerobics, rowing, swimming) with weight training. The important thing is to strengthen your body’s lungs, heart and muscular system to help your body burn fat more efficiently.
The best way to exercise to burn fat is to exercise consistently. It’s easy to start an exercise program and then give it up after a few short weeks. Choose a variety of exercises and find something that you enjoy and fits into your schedule.
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Video Games - Ways to Burn Fat
January 5, 2009 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
The Wii video game console is marketed as an active video game, since many of the games require you to be moving around while playing. There have been games specifically created to help you burn fat, and they provide fun, interactive and unique new ways to burn fat.
Wii Fit was the first video game that provided ways to burn fat. Even more than a year after release, it is still difficult to keep in stock because so many people want it to help them lose weight and are looking for more ways to burn fat. Wii Fit has been joined by My Fitness Coach and Jillian Michael’s Workout that all work on the Wii platform. In addition, there are active games like Dance Dance Revolution which is available for all the major video game systems.
It doesn’t matter how you do it, but the more ways to burn fat that you use, the more weight you’ll lose!
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Burn Calories by Hula Hooping!
December 30, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
If you’re looking for a fun, new way to burn calories, try to burn calories by hula hooping! The fun hoop of your childhood can put new life into your workouts and help you burn calories by having fun! You can pick up hula hoops at most mass merchandisers, and I’ve even seen them at the dollar store.
Hula hooping requires you to swivel your hips to keep the hoop spinning around your waist. It’s a great workout that burns calories and helps shape your waist and abdomen. It is a unique exercise that tones and strengthens your external and internal oblique abdominal muscles.
It may seem hard at first, but with practice, you’ll be swinging that hoop easily for 10-20 minutes as part of your workout. Burn calories by hula hooping and lose weight, too!
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Try Swimming to Burn Calories
December 22, 2008 by mrogers · Leave a Comment
Swimming to burn calories is an excellent way to help you lose weight. If you have access to an indoor pool, this is an exercise that you can do year-round. One of the advantages to swimming to burn calories is that you work your entire body and tone muscles throughout your body while burning calories.
Another advantage to swimming to burn calories is that swimming is gentle on your joints, so injuries are much less common than other forms of exercise. The buoyancy of water helps support your body and cushions your joints while you exercise.
Swimming to burn calories is a great tool to help speed up your weight loss. You will see success if you consistently add swimming to your exercise routine.
