Fat Burning Exercises

Here you go. Fat melting exercise secrets used by my personal trainers to create wicked programs for our clients. Getting optimal results in the least amount of time possible. These methods are tried tested and true. Otherwise I wouldn't write them here.

1. Exercise is Essential Every Day
OK you should already know this since you are reading this article, but I just had to throw this in because some people forget. Hands down exercise is the most important factor if your goal is to lose ugly fat. Sure you can lose weight with nutrition alone, but losing fat and losing weight are two totally different ball games. Exercise helps to mobilize fat cells as well triggering your body to preserve the muscle tissue you still have. Exercise and Nutrition go hand and hand. You cannot optimize fat loss with one and not the other. The Best practice is to be doing a minimum of 20 minutes of high intensity exercise per day followed by 30-40 minutes of lower intensity exercise.

2. Hit the Weights
OK Hopefully the above fact helped you make the decision that muscle tissue is the key to a long and healthy fat free life. So hitting the weights is extremely important in maintaining or even building muscle tissue. This should be a given. In addition to the muscle preservation properties of resistance training you need to realize that weight training can actually burn just as much calories as other types of exercise. Furthermore weight training will cause you to burn calories while your muscles repair. In fact studies have shown that good weight training session can accelerate your metabolism for up to 3 days.

Why Does Low to Mid-Intensity Exercises Burn More Fat?
The best fat burning exercises are low to medium intensity exercises that use fat as a fuel source to power your muscles. These are aerobic exercises which primarily use oxygen and fat for energy. High intensity exercise is called anaerobic exercise where carbohydrate is the preferred fuel source. Fat is harder to access quickly by the body, compared to carbohydrate, so fat is not efficiently burned during intense efforts.
High intensity workouts use glycogen (carbohydrate) as a fuel source. Carbohydrate is stored in the muscles and liver and is the first fuel source called on by the body for intense efforts. However, there is not a large quantity of the glycogen fuel source, and if the intensity of the exercise is continued, the stores are run down quickly. A byproduct called lactic acid is produced. Lactic acid causes the burning feeling in your muscles when you push yourself too hard and for too long.