How To Exercise The Right Way For Weight Loss

If you’re trying to lose weight, and you’re exercising your booty off, and you’re NOT losing weight… what happens?  You get just plain frustrated, angry, ticked off and you give up!

As a trainer, it’s something I hear all the time! “I’m working out, “just like I always have and I just can’t lose this extra weight!”

Well, it’s because a lot of women don’t understand what’s happening as they get older.

There was a study done that examined a group of people to see if there was any significant calorie burn between people that were moderately active and people that were really active.

For the study, researchers examined 300 men and women, specifically their levels of physical activity and the number of calories they burned each day. They found that while moderately active people burned about 200 more calories per day than the most sedentary participants, the most physically active people didn’t burn any more calories than those who were only moderately active. 5 Crucial Things to Do if You’re Exercising for Weight Loss | Women’s Health

The reason for this is because over time your body actually gets so used to the fact that you are doing the same type of exercise that it gets very efficient at burning less calories. 

Now don’t get all depressed and start thinking… “forget this, I’m not even gonna bother working out!”

Because there is something you can do to outsmart your super-smart body!

That’s why you may  have heard fitness types talk about the need to change things up.

Your body has to start working really hard when you change things up.  It’s like “hey… this is HARD stuff, I’ve never done this before!”  Then you have to expend a lot more energy, in the form of calories burned to get your body fired up for this new exercise.

What Can You Do Change Up Your Fat Burn?

So, there are two things that you can do if you wanna learn how to exercise the RIGHT way for weight loss.

These two strategies will turn your body back into a fat-burning machine once again.

Number One is Diet!

The first thing you need to do is be sure you are eating clean.  To give this to you in a nutshell, the quickest way I can explain this, is that eating clean means you stay away from PROCESSED FOODS.  I like to tell people, think of “one ingredient” foods that are not PROCESSED.  So that eliminates, flour and sugar, right?  Yes… one ingredient foods.  Organic quinoa, chicken, broccoli. Eggs, tomato salsa, sweet potato.  You get the idea.

This is just the basic idea, but you can Read more here about clean eating.

Number Two is HIIT!

No, you are not going hit anybody, or get hit!  LOL, you are going to do a HIIT workouts at least five times a week.  HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training.

What HIIT does for your body is amazing.  It basically changes the way your body burns calories and torches fat.

HIIT work outs are “interval” training workouts.  So you work out at a very high intensity and then you rest for a period.

With a HIIT work out, you perform an exercise at YOUR MAX intensity, and then you REST.  So you go all out for 20 seconds, and then rest for 10.

My favorite HIIT workouts are called “tabata.”  Tabata workouts are 20 seconds of hard work and 10 seconds of NO work.

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You can read about tabata workouts here.

You can view some of my tabata YouTube workouts to get the idea here.

When you do a HIIT workout, you get what is called the “after burn” effect.  This means that you can burn up to 40% more calories throughout the day as your body recovers.  So instead of burning, let’s say 200 calories in a half an hour workout, you will actually be burning about 280! Don’t scoff, because that adds up to big pounds over time!

So go ahead and ditch those long, boring runs that are no longer serving your body, and start HIIT training AND clean eating today.  You will be amazed at the fast results!
To your health!