How to Burn Body Fat

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Cardiovascular Activities and Calories Expenditure

• A great physical activity for beginners is walking. Just a half an hour a day of brisk walking will burn up to 180 calories.

• If you enjoy the elliptical or stair-climber machines at the gym, a half hour of your time will equal about 300 calories that you won’t be taking home with you. (Don’t forget that you can climb real stairs for 30 minutes as well if you don’t have access to the machine.)

• Cross-country skiing whether on actual skis or a ski machine, burns over 300 calories in a half hour.

• If you enjoy the outdoors and/or have access to the equipment, rowing and rock climbing expend between 300 and 380 calories in a 30 minute workout.

• Cardio kickboxing can burn between 300-500 calories in one class!

• If you have a bicycle or have access to a stationary bike, you can burn anywhere from 200 – 400 calories in a half an hour workout.

• Once you’ve been walking for at least a little while you may like to try running. You’ll be burning over 300 calories with every half hour of time spent on the road or the treadmill.

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If your main objective is to burn fat, then you really need to pump a little bit of iron. You may be looking for a sculpted and cut physique. If that is the case, then you’ll need a more intense and consistent workout regime. If you are looking to lose body fat - then adding some basic weight lifting to your fitness routine will build muscle and burn fat even faster. The more muscle that you have on your body, the more fat is burned – even when you are being sedentary. So, the real key to burning fat is to begin building lean muscle mass and enlist your body into working for you rather than working against you. Having lean muscle mass on your body is like the gift that keep on giving – the more muscle you have, the more efficient your body becomes at burning off unwanted and unneeded fat deposits.

The three main muscle groups to be concerned with are the largest in your body – legs, chest and back. To get the best bang for your buck at the gym, you’ll want to make sure that you regularly work the large muscle groups on your body. Of course, you can work your arms as well, but you’ll get the largest “fat burning” results by working the large groups of muscles. And don’t worry if you’re a female – you won’t easily bulk up. Some women are afraid of getting big, bulky, masculine muscles. Since we don’t have the testosterone in the amounts that men do, our bodies respond differently to weight training. Working your legs will not make them “bigger”. Rather, it will help to make them stronger, burn the fat from them and actually make them look more feminine and shapely.

A major plus of weight training, is that it helps to boost your metabolism. Anything that you can do to boost your metabolism will help you to continuously burn more body fat. Genetics does play a part in whether you have a “good” or “bad” metabolism. However, if you are a dieter and live a sedentary life style – unfortunately, you are reason that your metabolism is shot. It will be up to you to do everything possible to raise your metabolism and keep it up to burn fat and lose weight.

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