Most people want to get fit and healthy. They want workouts that are the most effective for building muscle, burning fat, and improving energy levels. Dieting can help, but you have to be careful. If you don’t do the right exercises, you’ll lose weight. Unfortunately, you’ll also lose muscle tissue. You end up being a thin person with excess body fat. The best fat-loss exercises include more than cardio. Cardio burns a lot of calories, but they come from both muscle and fatty tissue. You end up with less muscle tissue. That makes it harder to lose weight. Muscle tissue requires more calories than fat tissue does, so the more you have, the higher your metabolism is.
Strength training sets calories on fire.
When you include strength training in your routine, you’ll build muscle as you burn calories. That doesn’t mean you give up cardio, balance, or flexibility exercises. Your body requires all types of fitness. Strength training can include bodyweight exercises or lifting weights. Combining the two, as in weighted squats, is ideal. You’ll burn fat and build muscle by doing burpees, push-ups, and plank jacks.
Turn your workout into a HIIT—high intensity interval training session.
HIIT isn’t a specific exercise but a way of doing any exercise. You push your body to peak performance doing HIIT workouts, then alternate the intensity between peak and recovery. That allows you to exercise at the maximum pace for longer. HIIT workouts provide calorie and fat-burning advantages while you’re doing it, but it goes a step further than other types of exercise. It continues to burn calories long after the workout ends due to EPOC—Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption.
No matter how hard you workout, if you don’t eat healthy, you won’t get results.
Great bodies start in the kitchen. No matter how hard you exercise, you won’t get the success you want if you aren’t eating healthily. Fast food is notoriously higher in calories and lower in nutrition, both of which are not good for building muscle and losing fat. Eating healthily and ensuring adequate dietary protein is vital to building muscle. Your body also requires carbs and healthy fat. Healthy fats, like the fat in avocados, contain the nutrients for building hormones that help fat loss.
- HIIT workouts improve blood pressure, heart rate, and blood glucose levels. They can reduce insulin resistance, which contributes to obesity and body fat. You’ll also improve endurance quickly using HIIT.
- Doing circuit training with no rest between exercises and little rest between circuits also burns fat. A circuit combining bodyweight exercises like jumping jacks, squats, and push-ups can change body composition by building muscle and burning fat.
- One exercise that’s a combination of several others is burpees. It’s hard to do many, but they are great for building muscle and burning fat. You can create your workout or use the expertise of our trainers to help you reach your goals faster.
- Adequate sleep is also necessary to build muscle and burn fat. When you sleep, your body heals. That allows it to build muscle tissue. Lack of sleep can cause an excess of the hunger hormone and diminish the satiety hormone.
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