Ask 10 people what type of exercise you should be doing to burn fat fast and speed up your metabolism and they will probably all tell you the same thing. They will tell you that, 3 to 5 times a week, you need to exercise on a treadmill, elliptical machine, stair climber, etc for 30 to 40 minutes at a moderate aerobic pace. They will probably tell you that the more you do the better it is…. Four times a week is better that three and five times a week is even better.
Many people will tell you this because that has been and continues to be the mainstream recommendation for burning fat fast by many fitness professionals. Get in a certain target heart rate and stay at that heart rate for 30 minutes or so, several times per week.
I am here to tell you there is a better way to speed up your metabolism. Sure, you’ll burn some calories while you’re running to nowhere on a treadmill, but you won’t make a complete physique transformation with this type of exercise alone.
This type of exercise can be counterproductive to burning fat and here is why. Long duration exercise and lesser intensity aerobics use your stored body fat for energy, throughout your exercise sessions. While this may sound good, this will not speed up your metabolism and this can actually cause your body to create more body fat to keep in reserve and have ready for your next workout.
Yikes! When this kind of exercise is done frequently as typically suggested, it trains the cardiovascular system to be efficient and in this case that is not good. Again, while this sounds good, your heart and lungs can actually reduce their capacity for work, as they are getting more efficient at doing easy work (your long duration, low intensity aerobic workouts), which reduces your heart and lungs ability to handle the physical stress.
There are many other problems this can lead to including a higher chance of heart failure. You are only working within your current aerobic capacity because you’re never challenging it to go beyond what it’s capable of. And anything that is easy will not yield the results anywhere near to what is challenging for the body to accomplish. To be able to handle stress easier you should be challenging your body to increase its capacity. How is this done? The way to burn fat fast, and develop lifelong health and fitness that will increase lean muscle to your body in the quickest and most efficient way to speed up your metabolism is with anaerobic training.
When you get stronger and build some muscle you will get life changing results in the fastest possible time. When you add lean muscle to your body you will turn your body into a fat burning machine!
Let’s say that you were eating the total number of calories that keeps you current body weight stable, but now you start to add lean muscle to your body with proper resistance training…then you will need to use some of those calories that you are eating to feed the new lean muscle and this will create a calorie deficit in your body.
In addition, when you stimulate your body with proper resistance training like I teach my students, the repair and growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy. You will be able to burn fat quickly all day long with this calorie deficit along with the repair and growth process.
You’ll even get these fat burning effects when you’re sitting around doing nothing at all. Your heart and lung’s capacity for work will become greater with properly conducted resistance training.
Your body will be forced to be ready for anything you throw at it, when you place intense demands on it. This allows you more resistant to cardiovascular health problems that many people are worried about…and that includes those that workout using aerobics frequently.
What I have discovered is that you don’t have to spend a great deal of time working out to get the fat loss effects, speed up your metabolism and gain the strength and muscle…you can actually get it done with 2 or 3 weekly workouts that last between 20 and 30 minutes, and even less time at an advanced level.
Remember the key to raising your fat burning capability to the max is to speed up your metabolism.
You will increase up your metabolism if you use the physical exercises properly.
And it’s easy to make this type of exercise part of your life because of its efficiency…and it will help keep you lean and healthy for the rest of your life…fat burning furnaces are made up of lean muscle! Of that I can promise you.