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How To Make Your Workouts More Effective & Efficient!

posted June 2, 2008 - 8:48pm
How To Make Your Workouts More Effective & Efficient!

Most of us now know that weight training helps you build lean muscle tissue. In return, that lean muscle allows your body to
burn more calories not only during exercise but also when your body is at a resting state throughout the day. So, if your interested in burning more calories during your workout and throughout the day, follow this simple quide:

1. Choose exercises that target multiple body parts when you are training. Pick a small muscle group and a large muscle group. For example, I plan to work on arms and legs today. So instead of splitting these two workouts up I will combine them with one effective exercise. Using an exercise like the lunge allows me to do this and helps me burn more calories in less time.

As you perform the lunge, you are going to add a bicep curl on the downward lunge motion to train the biceps, quadriceps and gluteals all at the same time. The lunge is also a great way to get some cardio work done as it is a very dynamic exercise that requires you to concentrate on posture, balance and coordination.

2. Use a fitness ball during dumbbell exercises. Instead of sitting or lying on a bench, try performing exercises like chest flies, curls and shoulder press on a fitness ball.

This helps you burn more calories because the unstable ball forces your body to activate more muscles in your core and legs to maintain balance on the ball.

3. Use "high intensity interval training" to boost fat loss and burn more calories. Recent studies have shown that interval training can stimulate your metabolism far more AFTER the workouts than lower intensity training.
This means you continue to burn more calories and fat for long periods after you're done training. Not so with low intensity training.

There is a lot of research being done about high intensity interval training and how it is becoming the workout of choice versus aerobic training for losing fat. As a matter of fact there is a great training program called Turbulence Training that explains how you can really turbo charge fat loss without spending hours in the gym. It's well worth checking out!

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Thanks

I appreciate the comment Nick.

good stuff

nice job

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