While most people associate fat burning exercises with cardiovascular exercises like running and aerobics, the exercises that burn the most fat are actually slow, long duration motions that involve most of your major muscle groups. That’s because these exercises build muscle and, the more muscle you have, the more calories you will expend on any activity, even watching TV and sleeping.
Where cardiovascular exercise might burn up some calories during the exercise, the muscle you build with slower weight building exercises will help you to burn fat all day (and night) long.
The best type of exercises are ones where you use slow, controlled movements to lift a weight. Bench presses, bicep curls, squats, leg lifts, bent arm fly’s and the like are great for muscle building. The key is to load up the weights to where you can do 10 reps or less. Once you can do more than 10 reps of any particular exercise, add more weight. That way you are continually building the muscle.
Many people think that a good exercise program involves spending a lot of time in the gym, but this is not true. In fact, most of the weight building exercises only require that you engage in them for a series of 20 to 30 minutes every
other day.
In the alternate days, add in a cardio exercise like walking or running. For proper exercise techniques, watch this video: 7 and 14 minute work out. You may take a few days off during the week, in order to allow your body to
recuperate from the different exercises; however you should at least exercise 5 days per week in order to burn an adamant amount of calories.
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