Burn Fat Fast

When it comes to losing weight and burning fat, everybody is in a hurry. Be it because you don’t actually have a lot of time to work out or because you need to lose the weight faster for a specific event, there are some things you can do to speed up the process.

Assuming you’re already following a good diet low on sugars and fatty foods, your next and most important step in the battle against fat is to make the most of every minute you have available for exercising. This means not only working out at the gym a few times a week, but also making sure you change your routine enough to incorporate more physical activity into your daily life. Simple things like taking the stairs or walking to the movie theater instead of taking the bus can increase the total amount of calories you burn in a day significantly.

STEP ONE

If you have ever wondered why men seem to lose weight faster than women, the answer is simple: they have more muscle. Muscle not only speeds up your metabolism but it also makes your body burn fat at a faster pace, even when you’re not exercising. This means that the larger your muscle mass, the faster you will lose fat, even at rest. There are no specific weight exercises you need to do; instead, look into designing a full routine that helps you tone all muscles. A simple program rotates major muscle groups throughout the week: back and biceps on day one, legs on day two and triceps, shoulders and chest on day three. Starting with light weights is ok, and you can eventually build up to bigger numbers.

STEP TWO

Once you have a weightlifting routine in place, your next step is to find time for aerobic exercise. You need to workout hard enough to get your heart rate up to a fat burning level (calculated by substracting your age from 220). If you can maintain that pace for at least 30 minutes, you will be burning fat. If time is a problem, choose exercises that make the most of your workout (think skipping rope rather than going for a walk), or try breaking a 40-minute workout into two 20-minute bouts of exercise. It’s the total number that counts, not how much you do at once.

Keep in mind that fat is stubborn and that is almost impossible to lose more than 1-2 pounds of fat in a single week. Diets that promise large amounts of weight loss are not helping you burn fat. Anything over the 2 pound mark will either be water or muscle loss. Since muscle is such an important part of an active metabolism, losing weight too quickly can actually hurt your chances for an effective fat burning workout.