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5 Fat Burning Tips You Can Use to Go From Fat to Fit Fast
By admin | August 4, 2008
Are you sick and tired of carrying excess fat around day after day?
Do you want to incinerate your useless body fat and show off the lean muscle underneath?
Implement these 5 fat burning tips into your fat loss program and watch your body fat melt away.
Stay off the scale: The fact that you can gain muscle and lose fat is one of the reasons I stress to people not to follow the scale.
Body composition (% body fat) and how you look in the mirror is a lot more important than what the scale says.
The scale lies.
You could train hard and eat right and build five pounds of muscle and lose five pounds of fat and what will the scale say?
That you still weigh the same. This leads to frustration, even though you’ve made good progress.
You can use the scale as a guide but remember, how you look in the mirror, how you feel, and how your clothes fit are much better indicators of your progress.
Reduce your calories gradually: If you are looking to lose fat, don’t make huge calorie cuts.
This will kick your body into starvation mode, reducing your metabolism and making it more difficult to burn off the fat.
Instead, you should reduce your calories slowly, making reductions every week or two in order to prevent this metabolic slowdown and allow your body to burn fat at an optimal rate.
Vary your caloric intake: This is another way to outsmart your body and continue to lose body fat without lowering your metabolism.
By varying you caloric intake every few days instead of eating the exact same amount of calories every day, you can keep the starvation mechanism in check and continue to burn fat.
Train with weights: Training with weights does a number of things for your fat loss.
Weight training itself burns calories.
In addition, unlike aerobic exercise, weight training increases the calories you burn at rest for up to 39 hours after your workout.
The more muscle your body has, the more calories you burn each day.
Even if your goal is solely to lose body fat you need to train with weights.
This will help prevent any of the weight you lose from being muscle, which will slow down your metabolism, stall your fat loss efforts, and turn you into a skinny fat person.
Incorporate high intensity interval training into your workout:
A brief explanation of this training is that you do just that - train in intervals, by alternating a brief period of exercise with a brief period of rest.
This makes the overall length of your workout are much briefer in duration than your typical aerobic sessions.
One of my favorite interval training programs is jumping rope.
You may need to practice a bit on this one.
After a brief warm up, I will jump rope as fast as I can for about 10-20 seconds, followed by a slower cadence for about half a minute.
This form of interval training is brutal and will get your heart rate up fast! You won’t last long on this program.
Always warm up before starting your intervals.
If you’re not in the best of shape break into it lightly, starting with more low or moderate intensity cardio.
You might also want to check with your doctor. No sense in getting hurt right when you start your interval training.
In fact, if you aren’t ready for high intensity interval training, here’s a sample progression for you:
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Alternate jogging with walking
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Alternate running with jogging
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Alternate sprints with walking
- Alternate sprints uphill with walking down the hill
If you’re not doing all these things, and you’re looking for the perfect supplement stack or the optimum periodization plan, then you are just setting yourself up for failure from the beginning.
Learning how to burn fat effectively does not include these things. They just keep you from taking action.
Don’t get me wrong, the little details can help, especially when you are at that point where you almost have the body you want and are looking to burn off those last 5 pounds.
But if you put the extras ahead of the fundamentals, you are not going to get the results you are hoping for with your program.
So now that you’ve learned the basics of how to burn fat fast I’ll leave you with a quote from Benjamin Disraeli, the former British Prime Minster. “Action may not always bring you happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
Go take some action!
Topics: Fat Loss |