Best Exercise To Lose Weight

Best Exercise to lose weight – What is it?

Put the question to a dozen different people, which is the best exercise to lose weight, blow torch fat and put their metabolism into overdrive, they’ll all most likely give you the same answer.  It’ll go something like “thirty to forty five minutes of aerobic exercise at a moderate pace 3-5 times each week using a stair climber, Exercycle or treadmill”.
The more is better notion frequently arises too.  They’ll say that 3 times is better than 2 and 4 is better than 3 and best is 7 days of cardio each week.

Why do people believe this?  Because mainstream fitness professionals have doled out this advice for years and still do.  “Work yourself up to a specific fat burning heart rate and keep up that pace for 45 minutes 4-6 times each week – this is the best exercise to lose weight”.  Nonsense!!!  I don’t mean to be crass, but how many overweight people do you see doing long slow cardio routines, walking around the neighborhood and not getting results?  Why don’t they recommend this kind of long slow cardio routine on “The Biggest Loser”?  I can tell you, there is a much, much better way which will actually get you results.

Of course running for miles on a treadmill will burn off a few calories, however, transforming your physique is slow if not near impossible with only this type of exercise.

Even worse than that, there are at least a couple of reasons why this kind of exercise may actually slow down your weight loss.

Why is long slow cardio not the best exercise to lose weight?

Your body calls on stored fat during low intensity, long duration work out sessions.  Although on the surface of things you could believe this is a good thing, this may in fact trigger your system to produce additional fat in preparation for future exercise once your session is finished.
Ouch!!!

Even worse than that, this kind of workout if performed regularly as generally recommended, teaches a person’s cardiovascular system to work efficiently.  Just as before, even though this seems positive, the heart and respiratory system may well decrease their potential for performance as they’re becoming more effective at performing relatively easy labor (the commonly prescribed aerobic workouts consisting low intensity for long duration).  This in turn reduces the ability of the heart and lungs to handle stress.
This could result in a range of other issues, not to mention an increased chance of heart attack.  By doing this type of exercise you aren’t challenging your system to go beyond it’s current capabilities and only working within its current aerobic ability.   Any activity that is easy won’t deliver fat loss results even in the vicinity of activity which challenges your body.
Rather than wasting your time with this ineffectual method, your focus should be on raising your body’s capacity and ability to handle stress better through challenging it regularly.  How do you do this?

By far the best exercise to lose weight and the quickest and most effective strategy to ramp up ones metabolic rate, torch body fat quicker, plus build long term physical fitness and health is always to increase lean muscle mass by way of strength training (resistance training)  and high intensity interval training – end of story.  Do you dream of  life changing fat loss in the fastest feasible time frame? The answer is increase your strength and build up a few muscles!. Once you increase lean muscle mass to your body, it”ll essentially convert it into a fat melting furnace!

Imagine for a minute that your daily caloric intake was perfect for sustaining your present weight. It doesn’t go up or down.  Now let’s a proper resistance training program and a bit of lean muscle mass.  The new muscle you build needs to be fed (muscle uses more energy than fat) with some of the calories you’re already eating.  This in turn creates an imbalance or caloric deficit meaning you’ll burn fat.  Sounds simple right?

Not only this, if you use a proper resistance training program (I recommend either the one in Fat Burning Furnace or Turbulence Training for the best exercise to lose weight program) to rev up your entire body the growth and repair processes source their energy from the fat your body has stored.  Paired with the growth and repair processes this caloric shortfall  ensures you burn up fat 24/7..  The really exciting thing is the fat burning processes even take place when you’re sitting watching TV. (The metabolism stays raised for up to 24 hours after resistance training and high intensity interval training as opposed to the very short time after long slow cardio exercise).

But wait, there’s more!  The work capacity of the lungs and heart markedly increases with a correctly performed resistance and high intensity interval training plan.  You literally force your body to be ready for anything it faces by  putting high demands on it.  This gives you far more resistance against health issues related to the cardio vascular system that trouble a scary number of men and women…even those who engage in long slow aerobic workouts on a regular basis.

What’s really awesome is that in my experience, to get the muscle and strength gains needed to create this fat melting environment, you don’t need to spend half of every day at the gym!  How does 30 to 45 minutes two to three times each week sound?  Too good to be true?  Sometimes less is more.  Once you reach a more advanced stage it can take less time yet.

Due to its high level of efficiency, making this kind of exercise part of your weekly routine is really uncomplicated.  Not only that, you’ll be healthy and lean for the rest of your lifetime.  Creating lean muscle and using it at high intensity is by far the best exercise to lose weight and will turn you into a fat burning furnace.  I promise you…  You don’t even need a gym or expensive equipment to get huge results.  Craig Ballantyne’s Turbulence Training uses a very meager equipment line up so cost should be no barrier.  Just get out there and do it.

A word of warning – even with an awesome fat melting exercise program like Turbulence Training or Fat Burning Furnace, you can’t expect to get lean if you fuel your body with crap.  A large portion of your results is dependent on what you eat.  You just can’t eat burgers and donuts every day and lose weight, no matter how good your exercise routine is.  If you need help with what to eat, both of the above programs give you some great advice.  Otherwise I recommend the Diet Solution Program.