Burn More Fat and Exercise Less

Exercise will help you lose weight, get a trim body, increase your energy level and boost your overall feelings of well-being. But let’s face it – many of us don’t enjoy exercising. We may find the routines boring or just don’t want to make time in our day to sweat.

Fortunately there are so many different types of exercise that with enough searching and trial most people will find something they enjoy enough to stick with for long periods of time. For the most part these exercises are generally cardiovascular in nature. This means that they get your heart rate up but don’t require that you work your muscles against weight resistance.

Exercises such as running, rowing, volleyball, tennis, walking, jogging, horseback riding or cardio machines all fit into this category. There is nothing wrong with cardiovascular workouts – except that you have to do them for long periods of time to see results.

But if the goal is to workout less and see greater fat burning, what is a person to do? It may feel like working out at a cardio activity for longer periods of time will only burn more and more calories but in fact the opposite is actually true. Recent research has found that muscles and your metabolism will accommodate to the consistent workload that you impose each time you get on the treadmill for 30 mintues.

Instead researchers recommend that you confuse your muscles. Confused?

Basically they are advocating the same routines that high school and college coaches have been teaching for years – except they called it interval training.

Using interval training the body alternates between moderate and intense, long and short cardio workouts rather than indulging in one long cardiovascular session. And you’ll find that interval training is actually more fun than doing the same routine, at the same pace, for the same amount of time on the same days of the week, week in and week out.

You can change the actual routine that you use or you can incorporate weight work a couple of days a week to confuse your muscles even more. This muscle confusion leads to more weight loss, greater calorie burn and more toned muscles. Using interval training you’ll also find that your body continues to burn calories for another 24 hours after you’ve completed the workout. And for ultra-busy people that added benefit means that you can workout 3 times a week instead of five and receive the same benefits.

Another important factor, especially for women is that intensive workouts like weight lifting is not just for men; even women can do them. You think that you will have a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger if you do weight lifting? The opposite is really true. Building that kind of body requires more than intense workouts and different hormone levels than are usually present in a woman’s body.

Don’t complicate this! Keep it simple and basic and you will see how fast you burn fat and get your fat belly replaced with a flat belly!

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