Some facts and tips about Fat Burning Exercises.
Fact – If you are fit enough train intensely it keeps your metabolism burning food for hours after training. This is why interval training is great for burning calories.
Fact – The more muscles involved in the exercise (compound exercises) you are doing the more fat you will burn for example, presses and pull ups are better than bicep curls or triceps exercises.
Fact – Interval training is best for fat burning. The reason is your metabolism stays high for a long time after training.
Fact – Exercises that are weight bearing like running and walking are better for burning calories than ones like cycling.
Fact -Muscle Building is a great form of fat burning exercise. Muscle burns fat even when you are doing nothing. The more muscle you have the more fat you burn.
Fact – Never eat less than 1,200 calories per day or you will send your body into starvation mode.
Fact – Hopefully you know that spot reduction doesn’t work. In other words you cannot pick and choose were to lose fat. it has to be done gradually throughout the whole body. As an example the six pack abs myth that by doing 1,000′s of crunches you will get 6 pack abs (not if they are covered in a layer of fat). Crunches and most abs specific exercises are NOT fat burning exercises.
Fact – Sit ups and other abdominal exercises are terrible fat burning exercises. You would have to do 1000 sit-ups every night for over 2 weeks to burn 1 pound of fat. 500 sit-ups would only burn the same amount of fat as walking 1 mile.
Fact – Eat five small meals a day with each meal containing protein, this keeps your metabolism high and stops your body going into starvation mode which is when it will store fat.
Fact – A study on rats showed that those given all their food in one meal as apposed to those who had the same amount of food but in small meals throughout the day showed the ones who ate all there food in one go put on weight whilst the others did not.
Fact – Doing lots of cardio without muscle building will result in large muscle loss because your body will adapt to make the cardio easy by losing the heavy muscle. The result could be someone who has very little muscle but still carries some fat.
