How to Burn Fat and Be Trim
Cardiovascular training was once believed to be the quickest and most effective
way to burn fat and shed unwanted pounds. Aerobics, jogging, swimming, running
and biking were the main activities to turn to when we wanted to loose weight
and look trim. The belief was that when you perform low level aerobic exercises
your body relied on calories from fat. Therefore, burning fat. Well, there were
a couple of major limitations with this method of weight loss?
The fact
is that you only burn fat calories while the aerobics are actually being
performed. If you do twenty minutes of aerobics, then you only burn fat for
twenty minutes; if you do two hours, then you only burn fat for two
hours.
Also, if you are doing aerobics in excess, your body actually
burns away at lean tissue, leaving you with lowered calorie requirements. Ever
wonder why you eat the same amount of food but still put on pounds? A loss in
lean tissue will cause this to happen.
Fortunately, we live in a time of
great scientific discovery with tools and statistics that give us the cutting
edge in our quest for a slimmer, sexier body. Science has given us the solution
for optimal fat burning techniques.
The best solution for optimal fat
burning techniques is through resistance training. You have probably heard about
the many benefits of resistance training. These are increase in muscle strength,
injury prevention, and improved bone density.
There are the two reasons
that resistance training is the most effective way to burn fat. Oxygen Debt.
Resistance training puts your body into oxygen debt which means you will burn
fat as you recover from your workout. This effect can last quite a while.
Studies have shown an increase in calorie burning for up to three days following
a resistance training workout.
The other way that fat burning is
accomplished with resistance training is through an increase in your resting
metabolism. Lean tissue or muscle, requires many more calories each day than
fatty tissue. In fact, one pound of muscle burns 30-50 calories each day at
rest, compared to 9 calories per pound of fat. When you perform resistance
training exercises your body's composition will change to contain more lean
tissue, thus resulting in extra calories burned while you sleep and a trimmer
you.