Sunday, December 21, 2008

Foods for Fat Burning Muscle Building Diets

By Caleb Lee

Exercises will only get you so far in your journey for fat burning muscle building results, until you add in foods.

Take an Olympic sprinter for an example. They have huge legs, muscles twisting everywhere, skinny, built, and confident. Aren't these qualities something everyone wants?

If your answer is yes, then why not work out like them to get that way, too. You don't necessarily have to work out every day constantly to build those bulging muscles, however, your goal should be to lose weight and gain some tone, making your body look sexy.

Interval training with running can be a great way to lose some extra fat. In interval training, you simply have a set time for a fast paced exercise, followed by a recovery, or a slower paced exercise. You can sprint for 6 minute hard, 3 minute recovery jog, and then repeat. Your entire time does not need to be long. Ten to 15 minute interval workouts would be a good range to stay for the best fat burning and muscle building results.

You can alter the length of intervals, recovery, and entire workout lengths. By changing these, one can increase or decrease the intensity of the workout. Using one or two intervals is recommended for beginners. You can then work your way up to more intervals, however, you can still keep your workout time the same length.

Feeling less energetic because of eating a large amount of these foods is a possibility. You need to give your body time to figure out to resort to your fat for other energy. Usually, it will go for stored fat, which is the hard, long term fat to burn. This will regain you energy.

You have to remember to exercise when you are eating these fat burning muscle building foods. Exercising will boost your metabolism, getting a better circulation of foods and nutrients.

So eat your fruits and veggies and you can expect these fat burning muscle building foods to lose you weight naturally. - 15438

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