Metabolic Fitness Is Needed To Lose Weight
Author: Gen Wright
Author: Gen Wright
If you want to take off and keep off unwanted pounds of excess body fat, a healthy metabolism (your body's engine) is your best fat-burning friend. Unless you are one of those rare people blessed by the fast-metabolism gods, you would probably like to burn more fuel (calories) than you do now both while at work and at rest. Often surrounded in mystery your metabolism is affected a complex interaction of your eating and exercise habits and a few genetic factors thrown in as well. It is worth taking the time to understand it though, because with a well conditioned metabolism you can bolster your fat-burning efforts in significant ways. And even the most valiant efforts at weight loss will be hindered by a sluggish metabolism.The easiest way to increase the rate your body burns fuel is to make sure you have great 'metabolic fitness'. This refers to the body's response to correct exercise. In terms of calories you either 'burn' them up for energy or you 'store' them as body fat.For the last forty years exercise research focused on what happened during the exercise session and ignored the after effects. Now we know for sure what goes on during exercise directly impacts whether the body burns or stores fuel. In fact, the after effects of exercise are the most important aspect of determining metabolic 'fitness'. When it comes to losing weight, calories are important, but your hormones determine where, when and how those calories are used. More long, slow, exercise is not the answer and neither is restrictive dieting as both works against the metabolism in the long run. When food is reduced below a certain point (more than a few hundred calories) the body responds as if it was starving, and it will hold on to its fat stores for as long as possible. Look to getting your body composition in the right ratios (muscle tissue/body fat ratio) by improving your 'metabolic fitness' if weight loss is your goal. The only exercise that will raise the metabolic rate and make your body work for you not against you is a proper program made up mostly of strength training exercise. Keep your old fashioned walking, jogging or cycling as part of your active lifestyle but never replace proper exercise with recreational activities.Your strength training program done at the correct level of intensity will ensure your fat burning machinery (your metabolism) is boosted so it can set an army of fat gobbling muscle cells to work every minute of the day and night reducing your body fat level. On the other hand your recreational activities will only burn fuel while you are doing them and your metabolism is not boosted to any extent to help you burn body fat.This is the difference between the old ways of burning fat and the new better ways. The entire fat loss solution is in the muscle cells. When they are conditioned and toned they will work hard for you to keep you lean and trim something that long, slow, endurance type activities will never ever do. Get yourself started on your strength training program and enjoy the faster and more lasting fat loss results.About the Author:
My name is Carolyn Hansen, and my goal is to show you how to burn fat - without starving yourself - by combining strength training with the right foods that
increase metabolism, decrease food cravings, and keep you looking trim. Come find out how it is done.
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