Fat Burning Saunas Work Too!

By Abhishek Kumar Khandelwal

There are plenty of ways to shed fat and if you're trying to shed some of those extra pounds, you've already tried plenty of them such as exercise, fasting, dieting and even starving yourself in some cases.

Of all the methods; exercise and picking a healthy diet work best, but there is another way that you would enjoy and that is - saunas!

It may seem too good to be true and you may think that you're just losing water weight as you're not doing anything just sweating. However, there are plenty of cases where people have shed a lot of weight using saunas and it's proven that they actually work. So, let's take a look at how these wonderful relaxing moments could also lead to a better physical appearance.

How do saunas help you shed those extra pounds?

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Fat Burning Exercises

By Gary Gresham

Fat burning exercises are the slow, aerobic, long duration types of exercise that involve most of the major muscle groups. Your body will burn a higher percentage of calories from fat with lower intensity cardio exercises.

Fat burning exercises include walking, jogging, running, elliptical exercise trainer workouts, cycling and swimming. The key factor to keep in mind is the more muscle groups you use, the more fat you'll burn.

Different type of exercises will burn more sugar rather than burning fat. 

Sugar burning exercises involve brief spurts of movement followed by rest which results in more sugar that is used for fuel instead of fat.

Sugar burning exercises include sprinting, tennis, racquetball, basketball, 

and golf. While these are great sports that benefit your overall fitness condition, they are different type of exercises that will not burn as much fat like fat burning exercises will.

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5 Cardio Workouts to Burn Fat

By Craig Ballantyne

Everything you know about cardio is about to change. You're about to discover the truth 

about 5 cardio workouts to burn fat and lose more belly fat in less workout time. 

Let's start by looking at the old, outdated way of burning fat.

Cardio Workout #1 to burn fat: Slow cardio

The first cardio workout to burn fat is "Old School Cardio". For years, we've been fooled into thinking that we need long, slow, boring cardio workouts to burn fat. However, too many men and women slave away on the cardio machines for 40, 60 and even 90 minutes per workout without burning fat. How is this possible?

To be honest, I don't know exactly why it doesn't work, but two recent research studies found that women doing 40-60 minutes of low intensity cardio, 3-5 days per week, did not lose belly fat after at least 12 weeks of cardio. Based on those results, slow cardio is not one of the best cardio workouts to burn fat.

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