If you want to burn more fat, do shorter, challenging exercises and workouts! Intense, 30-minute workouts will burn more calories and fat during and after your workout. Challenge yourself with exercises that test your balance, coordination, strength and flexibility! This might require that you put that old favorite workout on the shelf and try something new! If you do, I guarantee you will burn more fat and lose more weight!
Include some of these challenging exercises in your workouts:
1. Incorporate many one-legged exercises such as power step ups, single leg squats, single leg good mornings, single leg medicine ball exercises, etc. These types of exercises are more intense than two-legged exercises.
2. Include exercises with your eyes closed to improve limb position sense (proprioception). This will also help you burn more fat and calories!
3. Exercise your body in all 3 planes of motion to improve multi-planar balance. An example would be a grouping of walking lunges, side lunges and transverse lunges.
4. Exercise on different surfaces such as grass, sand, astro-play and soft surfaces to add more challenge.
5. Do combinations of one-arm and one-leg exercises such as single leg squat-to-single arm shoulder press.
6. Jump rope every day using different variations—two feet, one foot, shuffle, etc. Jumping rope is one of the best body coordination exercises out there. And, speed jump rope is even better to burn more fat.
7. Quickness and agility drills will burn fat like crazy and improve your dynamic balance.
Balance training also improves your core strength.
Challenge yourself more and watch the fat melt away!
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