Personal Trainer Reveals The Secret To Simple Weight Loss Part 1
Personal Trainer Reveals The Secret To Simple Weight Loss Part 1
Personal trainers agree with the fact that over half of the population are overweight or obese and this figure has increased over the last four decades. If you are overweight the effects will only be too visible. Usually you will have a protruding gut, a double chin and if you let things carry on without doing anything another important part of your body will be affected - your heart.It is a well known fact that physical inactivity and being overweight can lead to heart disease. People who are physically inactive and overweight are twice as likely to have a heart attack as people who do regular physical activity.Thankfully for us there is no great mystery for losing weight: you simply need to get rid of more calories than you consume. The healthiest way is to burn some of them through exercise and cut the rest out from your diet.By doing this you could drop ten pounds by the end of this month if you burn off five hundred calories through exercise and cut another five hundred from your every day diet. But you may not even need to lose that much.According to a personal trainer if you are serious about losing weight you need to know the facts and figures about your own body. You can't just pick a number of pounds to lose out of thin air for this month. You need to have a realistic and healthy target to reach for.To do this you will need to know what your Body Mass Index (BMI) is. The BMI tells you how much excess fat you have got on your body and therefore provides an indication of the weight you need to lose. It is essential that getting to your ideal Body Mass Index should come about through exercise and diet. Just not through diet alone. Normally when you cut down on your food, about 75 per cent of the weight loss is fat and 25 per cent is muscle. This is no good if you are trying to get bigger muscles in other areas of your body. However when you burn calories through exercise the weight loss from fat will be nearer 100 per cent. It will also offset the hormonal changes that occur when you cut back on your food. Other benefits include helping your body to oxidise fat better and at the same time it will protect lean muscle tissue especially if you exercise first thing in the morning before breakfast your body will lose even more fat.