Monday, June 01, 2009

Desperate To Lose Weight

Those initial pounds just seem to melt away when you start a new plan and then, as you get closer to your goal weight… the dreaded plateau derails you. Sound all too familiar?

Don't Panic, just follow these strategies and you will soon be on the road to slimming down and more importantly, staying that way over the long haul.

Strategy number 1: Strength train – Most people think of performing cardio type exercise like walking, jogging or cycling rather than strength training to help in weight loss. Some people even on purpose keep off strength training while on a fare in fear that they will transform into even bulkier than they are already. wretched move.

The fact is, strength training accelerates fat loss and the reasons are twofold. First, muscle tissue increases your metabolic rate, which aids in the burning of fat as fuel. For each pound of muscle tissue added to your remains, you burn anywhere from an additional 30 to 50 calories day at rest. Just a few pounds of muscle tissue can sky rocket your calorie burning next to an extra 1000 odd calories a week which can occasion a major meltdown of your excess blubber.

If you keep off strength training, your body ends up cannibalising its own muscle tissue, which slows your metabolism causing your body’s engine to use less fuel. This will lead to a rebound effect causing you gain weigh all the weight you have lost and more. This is what happens when you work against your body rather than with it. It is a futile exercise.

Cardio type exercise is focused only on what calories are burned during the exercise session while strength training exercise focus’s on what calories are burned long after the exercise session is finished. This is where you will get lasting and permanent fat loss.

Strategy number 2: Diet Break – Calorie restriction is really counterproductive to continued weight loss. For one, it causes feelings of deprivation that often leads to uncontrollable binge eating. For another, it elicits a starvation survival response initiated next to Leptin – a hormone responsible for fat gain and loss. Hunger goes up, metabolism (the rate you blaze fuel) goes down, and weight loss comes to a screeching halt.

The solution: Have a scheduled “diet break” where you eat your favourite foods once a week. Go in advance and order that pizza or get stuck into that ice cream. Whatever your heart desires, indulge yourself without any guilt whatsoever. This not only helps to satisfy cravings, but it resets your Leptin levels tricking your remains out of going into starvation mode and speeding up your metabolism. The net effect is easier, faster and longer lasting weight loss… and that’s a win/win situation.

Strategy number 3: Interval train – Most people select to lose weight next to performing incessant, moderately intense aerobic exercise in the so-called “fat burning zone” (60 to 80 percent of maximum heart rate). While the concept of a “fat burning zone” might sound good in theory, it is now outdated and old fashioned. We know a whole lot more today than bet on a support in the 1980’s when this fad was popular.

A superior strategy is to perform interval training, where short bursts sometimes of only 10 seconds of all out, full speed motion is alternated with much slower motion.

An example would be sprinting for 10 seconds then walking for 30 seconds or longer. Repeat 8-12 times. Studies have shown this to be up to nine times more effective in reducing remains fat. Start out with longer rest periods to recover and as you get fitter you can reduce the rest time.

This type of motion performed once or twice a week will supercharge your remains fat loss and combined with the other strategies on high will incinerate your excess remains fat revealing a sleek, trim, toned lean and mean physique. Perfect.

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