How To Fire Up Your Metabolism, Burn Fat Fast & Developing Lasting Health

Most people think to burn fat and fire up their metabolism  they will need to do 30 minutes of moderately-paced aerobic exercise  3 to 5 times per week.   And they’ll also say that more is better…4 times per week would be better than 3 times per week.

Many fitness professionals still recommend this regime for fat burning - get into a certain target heart rate and stay at that heart rate for 30 minutes or so, several times per week.  Sure, you’ll burn some calories while you’re running to nowhere on a treadmill.

In fact, this type of exercise can actually be counterproductive to burning fat.  Here are just a couple of reasons:

Long duration, lower intensity aerobics calls upon your stored body fat for energy during the sessions.  While this may sound good, this can actually cause your body to create more body fat in reserve after the workout is over to have ready for your next workout.

What's worse, this type of exercise when done frequently trains your cardiovascular system to be efficient.  Again, while this sounds good, your heart and lungs can actually reduce their capacity for work as they are getting more efficient at doing the easy work of long duration, low intensity aerobic workouts, which reduces their ability to handle stress.

And anything that is easy will not yield results even close to what’s challenging for the body to accomplish.

But, there is a better way.

Instead, you should be challenging the body to increase its capacity, so that it is stronger and able to deal with stress more easily

The fastest and most efficient way to rev up your metabolism, burn fat faster, and develop lifelong health and fitness is to add lean muscle to your body through resistance training . You want life changing results in the quickest possible time?  Get stronger and build some muscle. When you add lean muscle to your body you’ll be literally turning your body into a fat burning machine!

Let’s say that you are eating the amount of calories that allow you to maintain your current bodyweight, then begin to add lean muscle to your body through proper resistance training…you’ll need to use some of those calories you’re eating to feed the new muscle, creating a calorie deficit in your body.

In addition, when you stimulate your body with proper resistance training, the new growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy.  This calorie deficit combined with this growth process will allow you to burn fat all day long, every day.  You’ll even get these fat burning effects when you’re sitting around doing nothing at all.

Also, properly conducted resistance training actually increases your heart and lung's capacity for work.  By placing intense demands on your body, it is forced into being ready for anything you throw at it.  This makes you more resistant to cardiovascular health problems that plague most people...even those that exercise with aerobics frequently.

You can actually get it done with 2 or 3 weekly workouts that last between 20 and 30 minutes, and even less time at an advanced level.

And it’s easy to make this type of exercise part of your life because of its efficiency…and it will help keep you lean and healthy for the rest of it...muscle is the stuff that fat burning furnaces are made of!

About the Author

Ron Limbert has studied many weight loss programs searching for those that really work not only helping you to lose weight but, more importantly, helping you to keep it off. The 5 top fat loss programs are reviewed at his website http://www.5-best-reviews.com/fatloss/