Saturday, December 13, 2008

Lose Fat Fast With Proper Exercise

By Travis Killian

Look, I know that you are smart. I know that you know that if you want to lose weight then you need to work on your diet and exercise routine. I'm not going to write an article explaining how to lose weight and end it so that the only thing that you have discovered is that you wasted your time to find out something that you already knew. Instead, I'm going to tell you how you can effectively lose weight through making efficient use of your time in the gym. Interested?

In business you learn that it is important to leverage other people, or even technology, so that they do the work for you while you are free to work on other projects. Without going too in depth, we can make our bodies work the same way. What if you could burn an extra calorie a minute doing what you usually do by simply exercising for 15 minutes that day? Although I'm not sure exactly how much more calories a minute you will burn, I do know that this process of "turbo charging" your metabolism exists and I know how you can do that. That is called being efficient because you are not only burning calories while you exercise, but throughout the day you burn more total calories than you would jogging for an hour. That's leveraging your body to work for you towards your goals.

What can you do to speed up your metabolism throughout the rest of the day? The answer is High Intensity Interval Training. HIIT is an anaerobic exercise routine specializing in exercises performed at 90-95% of your max heart rate. An example of an HIIT exercise is sprinting. You will do this for about 15-30 seconds and do around 10-15 of them. Between each exercise, you will need to catch your breath by doing something like walking for a minute or two. After you have completed 10-15 reps, then you are finished and free to cool down, stretch and go home.

This type of training is very hard to do. Just like people usually don't squat, people will not do this either. No one wants to work hard but everyone wants the results. Well here is the proven formula, take it or leave it for some miracle pill. Just don't act ignorant when you are not getting the results that you want. This method is proven, so proven in fact that Laval University performed a test to validate HIIT's effectiveness. The results were astonishing - the tested group lost 9x more fat than the control group who performed traditional 30-60 minute moderate exercise.

Remember, when you are going to exercise to lose weight, perform HIIT (high intensity interval training). You will burn more total calories and even boost your growth hormone levels (ever wonder why sprinters are so buff compared to marathon runners? They both run.). Most importantly, your metabolism will be elevated throughout the rest of the day. - 15438

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