What is the best way to burn fat?

Many people ask that question when they need to lose or just control their weight. The answer to that question is both easy and difficult at the same time. The short [answer] is a pretty straightforward one, and that is to exercise. The best way to burn fat is to get moving by doing something challenging. In order to burn fat, you’ve got to burn calories. To burn calories you’ve got to get your body moving.

Deciding the type of exercise and figuring out how much is needed is where the complications can come in. The best way to burn fat is through a combination of cardiovascular exercise and resistance exercise (weight lifting).

[Usually]people think cardio is the only way to go in order to burn fat. Doing cardio does burn calories but is not the single best way to burn off excess weight.

Doing cardio burns off fat at a higher rate than if you were resting and often uses it as a fuel source.

The key to burning off the most fat for your efforts is to increase the intensity of the exercise you are doing. Truthfully, you need to try to puch yourself outside your comfort zone. If you are exercising and you have no doubt that you can continue at the pace or level you are currently working at, more than likely you are not working out nearly hard enough to produce significant calorie burn and make the effort worth your time in the long run.

While you are doing your workout there should be a little bit of doubt creeping into the back of your mind causing you to wonder whether or not you can keep up the pace for the duration of your routine.

You may be reading this and asking yourself, “Why do I need to push myself like that when I have read that I can just walk or jog to lose weight?” The reason for that is because for some reason many publications only like to give you partially true information.

It is true, you can lose weight by simply walking. What no one bothers to tell you is just how far you will need to walk in order to burn enough calories to contribute to your weight loss. It might be 2 to 4 miles needed to see the kind of progress you seek. A leisurely stroll may burn calories, but not enough for you to put in just one hour and be good to go. Increasing the intensity (speed, incline, step size, etc.) causes your body to work harder to complete the work. Harder work simply means more calories burned. The more calories you burn, the more fat you get rid of in the process.

The next time you visit your gym, bump up the speed on your treadmill if you are running. Increase the incline on the treadmill if you are walking. Add more resistance to the elliptical or stairmaster. Do whatever you can do to make the exercise a little more difficult and your body will thank you for it later when you are lighter.

The next thing that helps to ensure you are on your way to doing what is best to burn fat is weight training. When you weight train properly, you can expect to burn the same amount of calories as you would in a good cardio session like I mentioned earlier. On top of that initial calorie burn, you will continue to burn calories at an accelerated rate for several hours AFTER the workout is complete. If you only have time for either cardio or weight training and not both, the weight lifting should probably be your choice. [Knowing] exactly which exercises to do and how much [resistance] to use is a [huge] topic I will talk about later, but just know that the best way to burn fat [quickly] is to add weight training into your workout.

 

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