Exercise to Lose Body Fat

Experts seem to agree that, in order to reduce your body fat, you should build on two main pillars as follows:

1. pay attention to your diet.

2. do a reasonable amount of exercise each day.

This article concentrates on the second pillar and investigates the best exercises to lose body fat. It has been shown that weight loss can be achieved by using Cardiovascular exercise such as Aerobics, Weight Training exercise and last but not least. Yoga.

According to some statistics, the top cardio exercises which burn plenty of calories in a session of about half an hour are the following:

1) Step Aerobics. This is one of the exercises which many women prefer and can burn about 400 calories.

2) Bicycling. It can be done with stationary machines or outdoors and allows to burn from 250 to 500 calories.

3) Swimming. It is a full body cardio exercise. If you do breast stoke, you can burn approximately 400 calories.

4) Running. It is an excellent cardio exercise which allows to burn about 300 calories.

5) Walking. It is a good and less strenuous cardio exercise which allows to burn about 180 calories.

Another good exercise for weight loss is Weight Training because working out with weights will affect your lean body mass, raise your resting metabolic rate and therefore cause more fat burning. Raising the metabolism is the best way to burn body fat stores. The problem is that many people have no time to exercise for long hours in the gym just to speed up the metabolic rate.

You can start Weight Training at home by performing only a few main exercises which affect big muscles such as dead lift, bench press and squats..By doing just these three exercises you will use the major muscles and will stimulate quick muscular growth. These exercises allow to raise your metabolism quickly without spending a lot of time in the gym and will burn a lot of energy and fat in a short time.

The exercises should be done two or three times each week in a progressive manner. You can do about 10 repetitions of each exercise and start off with light weights. You should then gradually increase the weight and build up the resistance. This routine will speed up your my metabolic rate within a week or two.

Another less popular exercise which can help you to lose body fat is Yoga, which is a system of personal transformation which affects the physical, mental and spiritual levels. Often people know what they should do to lose weight (e.g. a better diet), but they do not have enough discipline to do it. Yoga will help you to put your mind in control and to be able to make the right choices. Yoga will help you to be relaxed and calm and nervous eating will disappear.

We summarise by reminding that there three main type of exercise to lose body fat. They are Cardiovascular exercise (mainly Aerobics), Weight Training and Yoga.

Max Peace is a Computer Consultant who has become very interested also in natural health matters. He believes that many common illnesses and health problems can often be healed in a safer and better way by using natural health and better lifestyle methods.

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