So, you want fat burn and weight loss at a faster rate? Shape your figure faster and keep your body looking good and toned without working out 2 hours a day. Who has time for that anyway! The number one reason that womens’ metabolisms slow down is loss of muscle mass. Save your muscle mass with rapid fat loss workouts. Burn more calories during the day and at rest.
Even with a speedier metabolism, you can still gain weight. Your weight gain is primarily due to you consistently eating more calories than you burn, or a caloric surplus. There are some medical exceptions to this rule but this doesn’t apply to the majority of people. For most of us, we gain weight because we eat too much and exercise/burn calories too little.
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The way to get your lean and toned body is not as far off as you might think. Be consistent with your fat loss and weight loss program and you will get and stay lean and toned—in time.
Muscle tissue is the most metabolically active tissue in your body. Your body has to work harder to maintain muscle mass. So, muscle mass is your top fat-burning tool. Work hard and build your body. By the way, fat is not metabolically active tissue….
“As women age, their metabolisms slow down, mainly because they are losing five or six pounds of muscle each decade starting in the mid-20s,” explains fitness expert Wayne Westcott, Ph.D., fitness research director of the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, Massachusetts.
“There’s no reason you can’t have the same metabolism in your 30s and 40s that you had in your 20s,” stresses Pamela Peeke, M.D., author of Fight Fat After Forty.
Keep your metabolism more active at any age with these type workouts:
1. Do three weight training workouts a week. On your Monday and Friday workouts, you will do full body circuit training with light (but challenging) dumbbells or bodyweight exercises. Your repetition range for each exercise will be 10-12. This type of weight training increases growth hormone in your body.
Growth hormone elevations during this type of exercise have been shown to decrease body fat and increase protein synthesis after exercise. Growth hormone helps promote tissue repair and muscle mass growth from lifting weights.
Intense exercises such as sprints and squat jumps also increase growth hormone release. These types of exercises would be perfect for your interval cardio and bodyweight cardio workouts.
2. Women can also build muscle mass through heavy weight lifting (you won’t get bulky). “Heavy” is relative to your body weight and strength. According to the research, doing this type of weight lifting will give you exercise-induced testosterone increases. Of course, this will help you build muscle mass.
Your repetition range for exercises will be 6 (you would have a difficult time lifting these repetitions). Your Wednesday workout will be with heavy weights.
Just a few words about nutrition……get a healthy eating plan that works for you. You may need guidance from a nutrition expert. You must burn more calories than you consume on most days in order to lose weight and burn body fat.
Even if you never skip workouts, you cannot eat as much as you want (or maintain daily calorie surpluses) and still burn fat and lose weight. On the opposite end, you can’t starve yourself and expect to succeed long-term with weight loss and fat loss.
Burn fat and shape your curves leaner and meaner. You will look and feel great!
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Mark Dilworth, BA, PES
