Monday, September 15, 2008

Lose Fat Fast With Proper Exercise

by Travis Killian

It seems as though the only advice that someone offers when you ask them how to lose weight is to diet and exercise. Don't you feel like slapping someone and saying duh? Obviously this is what you need to do, but how should you diet, how should you exercise? The next thing that you hear is that there is some sort of "miracle pill" that will melt the pounds off. Does anyone know what they are talking about anymore? Read on and listen to an expert at losing weight fast and supplement free.

Many people should realize how important it is to leverage our bodies to achieve our weight loss goals. If you know how to exercise correctly, then you can spend as little as 15 minutes in a workout a day to turbo charge your metabolism from that point until the next day. Imagine how many additional calories you would burn in a day if you were to burn an extra calorie a minute. Doesn't that sound like a lot more fun than only burning additional calories for the duration of your workout? Good, I have your attention.

Your solution to getting a "turbo-charged" metabolism is High Intensity Interval Training. Without going into too much detail, HIIT is performing a physical activity at around 90-95% of your maximum heart rate. You will only be able to do this for about 15-30 seconds. An example of a HIIT workout is doing a 10-15 30 second sprints with a minute of walking between each set. After that, you can cool down, stretch and finish your workout knowing that you will burn a lot more calories than 45 minutes of jogging.

That's not so bad is it? Try it, you will see why so many people will avoid doing this. It is hard, you will have to push yourself, but you will get in the shape that you want fast. In fact, a study at Laval University showed that this training method made their trainees lose 9x more fat than those who did traditional cardio (20-60 minutes of moderate cardio). You can even combine this method with weight training to super-turbo charge your metabolism!

If you really want fat loss results, then don't waste your time in the gym. Don't waste your resources on pills that do not work. Instead, get your intestinal fortitude and take it to the gym to perform some HIIT. You will burn more total calories throughout the day, conserve and build muscle, and even boost your body's natural growth hormone levels. Now you know why sprinters are a lot more buff than marathon runners even though they both run. Stick to the proven approach.

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