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Is This The Best Exercise To Lose Weight?

March 12th, 2008 by Lewis Phillips

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by Lewis Phillips

Do you think you know the best exercise to lose weight? This might be shocking to you, but probably the biggest myth about exercise is that you must almost work yourself to death to lose weight and burn that fat. In reality, burning a high percentage of your calories from fat can be achieved from cardio workouts that are varied and low intensity.

The best exercise to lose weight will include a workout that begins with slow, aerobic exercises that slowly build in intensity for a time and then gradually return to a slower pace. Workouts like these particularly affect the major muscles groups, resulting in a more effective fat burning exercise.

If you only do high intensity workouts, your body will burn more sugar instead of burning fat, because the body needs quick energy. Sugar from the food in your system will deliver that quick energy that your body is craving much quicker than fat.

Basketball, running, racquetball, and playing tennis and other high intensity workouts can definitely benefit your overall fitness, but those types of exercises will not burn as much body fat because your body makes better use of the sugar in your system for quick energy.

So, the best exercise to lose weight requires steady, slow energy that the body will eventually acquire from stored body fat. Low to high intensity cardio workouts will provide the necessary regimen to pull that energy from fat instead of sugar.

Some of the best fat burning workouts include cycling, walking at varying speeds, elliptical trainer workouts, swimming, and various treadmill workouts. The most crucial thing to remember is to vary your intensity because that is what will do the best job of burning the maximum amount of body fat.

The residual effect of this type of aerobic exercise is what gives you the most fat burning benefits. Exercises like the ones just mentioned will boost your metabolism, resulting in prolonged fat burning even after your workout is done.

Long workouts are not necessarily required. You can start with just twenty minutes of a good fat burning workout to get the fat burning enzymes going. Once your level of fitness gets better, you can eventually add more time to your workout. For beginners, 3 days a week would be a good start, gradually working up to 5 days as your fitness level improves.

Treadmills and elliptical trainers are perfect fitness equipment for working out at home. They can be used by the whole family and you don’t have to worry about going to the gym. Quality equipment like this will last you for years and is great for homebodies.

Stationary bikes provide for great fat burning workouts. They are easy to change the intensity for greater resistance as well as lowering resistance to achieve the variations that you need in your workouts.

These tiny changes in how you work out will make a big difference in the amount of fat that your body can burn. Start making use of the routines and equipment mentioned in this article to ramp up your metabolism and get the most out of your workouts.

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