New Modern Ways to Lose Weight and Tone Up

For years people have been mislead into thinking if they wish to burn body fat and become fitter that long slow aerobic activity is what they need to do. This type of exercise is now considered unnecessary and obsolete if a lean strong body is what you wish to achieve.

We now know better and more effective ways and are concerned about what happens after the exercise session is finished rather than focusing on burning calories (fuel) only during the session. Aerobic type activity such as walking, jogging, cycling etc does not work the muscles with enough resistance to give a permanent increase in metabolism (the rate the body burns fuel) to help you lose excess body fat. Only strength training exercise can do that.

Just by adding a pound or two of extra muscle tissue, so little that you will not even notice it you can achieve greater fat burning around the clock. Even when you are resting you can be burning more calories that in time will give you lasting, permanent, easy, fat loss and a tighter more toned body as well. Aerobic activity alone can never ever give you this.

Strength training exercise is so effective the session's only need to last 30 - 40 minutes 2-3 times per week. The emphasis is on quality training as opposed to just going through the movements with little light weights. If you seek out a fitness professional to properly set up your program and teach you how to perform it with the correct level of intensity (degree of difficulty) you will be amazed at how quickly you can make changes to the firmness, leanness, shape and tone of your body.

Along with your strength training add in a couple of interval training sessions each week and you will have a complete proper exercise program that will give you effective results. Interval training is short bursts of all out activity for 10 - 20 seconds then a minute or so of rest. For example you might sprint for the intervals then walk for the resting periods. Repeated for 15 - 20 minutes this type of activity will sky rocket your metabolic rate and chew into body fat stores like you won't believe.

The final tool that can help you lose body fat fast is eating 5-6 small meals every 2-3 hours throughout the day made up of natural, unprocessed whole foods as much as possible. Each meal should be based around a protein source then add some vegetables as well. Don't expect to be perfect with this type of eating, just work on continually trying to improve. The idea is to focus on what you should be eating not what you shouldn't be eating for best results.

To get in shape and lose excess body fat is really this easy, but it is important that you do things right otherwise it won't happen and may cause frustration and wasted time. If you are new to exercise the time you spend with a trainer will give you tools that you can use for the rest of your life.

Even if it costs a bit to access this information, you are tapping into someone's knowledge and experience that may have taken years to accumulate. This could save you years of wasted effort and can take you to your goal much faster.

To measure your progress don't use the bathroom scales as it will not give you the measurements you need to know only total body weight. You need your body composition (lean muscle/fat ratio) to give you the correct picture of your progress.

Hire your trainer to do this regularly to keep you on track and heading in the right direction. Your trainer will also need to be change and update your program every few weeks so your body doesn't adapt to the same old routine and halt progress.

Although this solution is very simple you will need to make a plan so each day you already have what food you are going to eat organized and know what time you are going to exercise. Even if you just implement 80% of these ideas you will be rewarded with much faster and easier results than the old fashioned dieting and long slow boring cardio routine. Those methods are dead we just need now to bury them.

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Carolyn Hansen is a certified fitness expert and fitness center owner who coaches clients to look and feel younger. In her nearly 30 years of fitness and bodybuilding competition experience she has helped thousands of people start their journey towards being strong, fit and youthful at any age.

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