Saturday, October 20, 2012

Losing The Fat, Keeping Your Muscle and Feeling Good

By James Steele


A lot is known about how the body burns fat but not muscle. We feel that quite a lot of people have problems with it due to the way they carry it out. This basically means that the amount of commitment a person has may fall, even after a strong start. Another point that's important is the reasons behind this happening. Whilst everyone is very different and we can't guess all causes we can mention one possible cause. It could be possible that people just go for an approach that isn't optimal for their needs. Even when their efforts are futile they won't bother to discover another approach. Finding whatever suits you and works best is the most important thing to ensure your success.

If you are really serious about burning the fat off, then one proven exercise approach is to do interval training. You can use a number of exercises to do this. As an example, you could use either a regular bike or a stationary one, or you could use a treadmill. The thing is, long distance cardiovascular exercises can and will work to burn off fat. However you don't want to be doing this if you wish to approach it in an effective way. Here we're making a distinction with the 'most effective' method of losing fat.

The following suggestion is regarding how you can burn off fat without effecting your muscle mass too greatly. But first, it is important you understand that roughly the first twenty or so minutes of exercise produces glycogen burn instead of fat burn. So, baring that in mind, doing twenty or so minutes of resistance work would be a good idea. Firstly, warming up and stretching exercises should be done and then the resistance training.

Then you can do cardiovascular training, which will allow you to burn fat not glycogen. So try doing this for a little while then take a look at the results.

Avoid as many simple carbohydrates as possible, and we mean simple sugars in this context. Both complex carbs and this type of sugar will be turned into fat rather quickly. Glucose, fructose and sucrose are just a few examples of simple sugars. However we need to just mention something about the fructose that's contained in fruits. Even though they do contain a simple sugar, it is still recommended to eat fruits because they do contain plenty of other beneficial ingredients. Fiber, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins can all be found in fruits.

We've seen various ways of maintaining lean muscle mass whilst burning off fat with some scientific and common sense approaches. Every tip and suggestion works well, but learning to apply a bit of common sense is certainly wise.




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