When you combine good nutrition and eating habits with weekly exercise, you are guaranteed to become a “fat burning machine.”
I’ll try to give it a “balance” here. He may be embarrassed at the thought of exercising, but don’t worry; You don’t have to run a 26-mile marathon every day or bench press 450 pounds 20 times. No, you just have to run a 25-mile marathon every day and bench press 425 pounds 15 times. (Okay, I’m just kidding.) Aren’t you relieved? Seriously, I’m not going to go into a lot of details or complicated explanations, just some general advice and recommendations based on my own knowledge and experience. If you will combine some type of aerobic activity and muscle work, you will benefit greatly. By aerobic activity I mean walking, running, biking, stationary biking, treadmill, stair climbing, stair climbing, running in place, jumping rope, etc. By muscle-working activity, I mean lifting weights, exercise machines, and other exercises that use your own body weight, such as push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, lunges, and other variations of these exercises.
As your lean body weight increases, your metabolism also increases, both during training and at rest and recovery. This is why proper nutrition alone is good, but not an effective means of fat loss. Weight training increases lean body mass. Now, to clear things up, I’m not suggesting that you necessarily build muscle like a bodybuilder does. However, we all have muscle and when we build muscle we speed up our metabolic rate so that we even burn fat while resting, sleeping, eating, watching a movie (unless you’re eating all that popcorn, chips, soda, candy and hot dogs). hot), etc
Having some form of exercise in your weekly lifestyle will benefit you in a number of ways. Everyone is on a different level. With some of you, your health or medical conditions may not allow you to do the hard weightlifting workouts that I do. Some of you may be involved in a particular sport that requires you to develop certain muscles or do certain exercises that will allow you to perform at your best in that sport. Some of you are too old to do what you did when you were younger. Some of you may have an injury or disability that prevents you from doing certain exercises. But no matter what your current situation is, you can and should do some form of exercise.
I have been working out with weights and participating in sports to some degree for over 30 years. I do not pretend to be an expert on the subject but I do have some experience. I was coached by a former Mr. Teenage USA when I was in high school and also a former Mr. Universe years later. I basically work the way it worked. But this may not be for you and that’s okay. If you can and are in good health, the fastest way to lose fat is to train hard, heavy, to failure or near failure.
Another way to lose fat is with aerobic exercise as mentioned above. You can jog or jog on the spot. If that’s too hard at first, you can fast walk. If that’s too hard at first, you can walk slowly. Start wherever you are, but increase the intensity when you can. You can also jump rope. How about riding a bike? If you are unable to go out regularly due to responsibilities such as childcare, work, etc. it can run in place right there in your living room, bedroom, or even bathroom. You can also do some exercises without weight, such as variations of push-ups, sit-ups, chair pull-ups, lunges, etc.
Regardless of who you are and your situation, you can “make it happen” if you don’t give up.