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Saturday, April 12, 2008
When you want to lose weight you need to exercise. So a lot of people want to know what is the best exercise for weight loss? There are a lot of different exercise programs out on the market and not every exercise is suitable for everyone. Everyone can benefit from getting more active. Even if you’re not training for a marathon or a race but just walking around the block every night you can lose weight. There isn’t a single type of exercise that is best for weight loss but the best exercise for weight loss is any type of aerobic exercise combined with some strength training exercise. Fitness experts agree that when you want to start exercising to lose weight the only way to really lose weight is by doing some type of aerobic activity.

Aerobic activity boosts your metabolism, burns calories, strengthens your heart and will help you burn calories even after the workout stops. Aerobic activity should be combined with some type of strength training activity because when you build up muscle mass your metabolism will get faster because your body will need more energy to haul around those muscles. So the more muscle mass you have the more calories you will burn just doing simple everyday activities like walking around, breathing, working, or just sitting. Our bodies are always burning calories for energy. When you are trying to lose weight you just want to kick start your metabolism to burn more calories all the time. And the best way to do that is to increase your lean muscle mass. But you still need to do some aerobic activity.

There are a lot of non aerobic exercises that are popular these days like yoga and pilates and those types of exercises are very good for you but mostly because they build lean muscle which helps your body burn calories. If you want the best exercise for weight loss you should do some type of aerobic activity like walking or running or dancing or anything that gets you up on your feet and moving for at least 30 minutes three times a week. The other three days of the week you should do some strength training. You could lift weight, do some pilates or yoga dvds at home, or just do some strength training exercises like crunches or push ups, through the P90X workout or Hip Hop Abs workout routines. Be sure to let your body rest at least one day a week. That is the best way to exercise if you want to lose weight. It’s really not that hard to do once you get into the habit of doing it. Exercising can be a lot of fun. Use some home workout DVDs to keep you motivated to exercise. Change up the DVDs every so often so that you don’t get bored with one particular aerobic activity. If you want to try yoga or pilates for strength training look for DVDs that have more than one workout level on them so that you can progress naturally in your training.


by: UltimateFitnessGear

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