What Every Woman Wishes She Knew About Fat Burning
Would you like to know the secret to blasting stubborn fat?
First, a little back story. Which came first - the chicken or the egg? Arguing about whether exercise or diet is more important to your weight loss is almost as big a conundrum.
My mother has been heard to say that she could never be as thin as i am because she can't run a marathon. Well, I don't like to argue with my mother but her lack of running isn't keeping her from being thin. As a Sports Dietitian with a Masters Degree in Nutrition, I know the key to ensure my client's weight loss is to boost your metabolism. In fact, I called the program I created "Metabolic Boost".
So yes I am all about what you eat and when you eat it. However nutrition is not the only factor in weight loss. While nutrition plays a bigger role than most of us would like to admit, exercise will dramatically speed up your weight loss. The right exercise, that is. Not those hours on the treadmill.
In this article, I'll explain how fat burning workouts work and then show you where you can find specific fat burning workouts to follow at your gym or at home.
How these workouts burn stubborn fat
Unfortunately, your body is designed to store fat. Back in the hunter / gatherer days, our ancestors didn't have a steady supply of McDonalds drive-throughs. Their next meal was never assured. When there was food, they eat plenty. Whatever wasn't used immediately by the body was stored as fat. And that was a good thing.
But now we have too much of a good thing and we need to cut back. When you cut back on your calorie intake your body compensates by slowing it's production of the hormones related to your thyroid function and your metabolic rate. Your body produces more of an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase which conserves energy by storing calories as fat. If you reduce your calorie intake too far you actually encourage your body to store food as fat rather than use it for functions such as hair and nail growth.
This doesn't happen immediately; in the short term you lose weight when you cut back on calories. But eventually you hit that plateau. To your body fat is golden. Fat is key to survival. Your body is not going to let go of very easily. You need to make holding on to that fat more painful than letting go of it. And that is where our fat burning workouts come into play.
What these workouts do is to convince your body to let go of the fat by overcoming your body's lipolytic resistance (in layman's terms, fat storage mode). Studies have shown that the more intense the workout the more likely the body's physiological response is to override it's lipolytic resistance and let go of the fat.
First, a little back story. Which came first - the chicken or the egg? Arguing about whether exercise or diet is more important to your weight loss is almost as big a conundrum.
My mother has been heard to say that she could never be as thin as i am because she can't run a marathon. Well, I don't like to argue with my mother but her lack of running isn't keeping her from being thin. As a Sports Dietitian with a Masters Degree in Nutrition, I know the key to ensure my client's weight loss is to boost your metabolism. In fact, I called the program I created "Metabolic Boost".
So yes I am all about what you eat and when you eat it. However nutrition is not the only factor in weight loss. While nutrition plays a bigger role than most of us would like to admit, exercise will dramatically speed up your weight loss. The right exercise, that is. Not those hours on the treadmill.
In this article, I'll explain how fat burning workouts work and then show you where you can find specific fat burning workouts to follow at your gym or at home.
How these workouts burn stubborn fat
Unfortunately, your body is designed to store fat. Back in the hunter / gatherer days, our ancestors didn't have a steady supply of McDonalds drive-throughs. Their next meal was never assured. When there was food, they eat plenty. Whatever wasn't used immediately by the body was stored as fat. And that was a good thing.
But now we have too much of a good thing and we need to cut back. When you cut back on your calorie intake your body compensates by slowing it's production of the hormones related to your thyroid function and your metabolic rate. Your body produces more of an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase which conserves energy by storing calories as fat. If you reduce your calorie intake too far you actually encourage your body to store food as fat rather than use it for functions such as hair and nail growth.
This doesn't happen immediately; in the short term you lose weight when you cut back on calories. But eventually you hit that plateau. To your body fat is golden. Fat is key to survival. Your body is not going to let go of very easily. You need to make holding on to that fat more painful than letting go of it. And that is where our fat burning workouts come into play.
What these workouts do is to convince your body to let go of the fat by overcoming your body's lipolytic resistance (in layman's terms, fat storage mode). Studies have shown that the more intense the workout the more likely the body's physiological response is to override it's lipolytic resistance and let go of the fat.
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