Ideal Curve

By Becky Long

 Ask ten people what kind of exercise they ought to be performing to burn fat and fire up their metabolism and they’ll all possibly tell you the same thing. They’ll tell you that you ought to do 30-40 minutes of moderately-paced aerobic exercise on a treadmill, elliptical machine, stair climber, etc. for 3-5 periods per week.

They’ll most likely also tell you that more is better4 times each week would be better than 3, and 5 times per week will be even better.

Individuals will tell you this since that has been and continues to be the mainstream recommendation for fat burning by many fitness professionals. Get in a specific target heart rate and stay at that heart rate for 30 minutes or more, several times every week. I am here to inform you there is a better way.

Sure, you will burn some calories while you’re jogging to nowhere on a treadmill, but you will not create a complete physique makeover with this type of exercise alone.

As a matter of fact, this kind of exercise can actually be counterproductive to burning fat. Here are just a couple of reasons:

Prolonged duration, lower intensity aerobics calls upon your stored body fat for energy in the course of the sessions. While this may sound agreeable, this can in reality cause your body to generate more body fat in reserve after the workout is over to have ready for your next workout. Yikes!

What is worse, this form of exercise when done frequently as generally suggested, trains your cardiovascular system to be efficient. Again, while this sounds good, your heart and lungs can in reality diminish their capability for work as they are getting more efficient at doing easy work (your long duration, low intensity aerobic workouts), which reduces their capability to handle stress.

This can lead to a mass of other problems including higher chance of heart attack. You are only functioning within your current aerobic capacity because you’re never challenging it to go beyond what it’s capable of. In addition anything that is effortless will not yield results even close to what is challenging for the body to achieve.

As an alternative, you must be challenging the body to increase its capacity, so that it is stronger and capable to deal with stress more easily. How is this done?

The quickest and most efficient way to rev up your metabolism, burn fat faster, and build lifelong health and fitness is to add lean muscle to your body through resistance training - period. You want life changing results in the quickest possible time? Get stronger and build some muscle. When you add lean muscle to your body you will be truely turning your body into a fat burning machine!

Let us say that you were eating the amount of calories that allow you to sustain your present bodyweight, but began to add lean muscle to your body through appropriate resistance trainingyou’ll need to use a few of those calories you are consuming to feed the new muscle, developing a calorie deficit in your body.

In addition, when you stimulate your body with appropriate resistance training like I teach my students, the mend and growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy. This calorie deficit joined with the repair and growth process will let you to burn fat all day long, each day. You will even get these fat burning effects when you’re sitting around doing nothing at all.

Furthermore, accurately conducted resistance training literally increases your heart and lung’s capacity for work. By placing intense demands on your body, it is forced into being ready for anything you throw at it. This makes you more resilient to cardiovascular health problems that curse most people…even those that exercise with aerobics repeatedly.

In addition the beauty is I have discovered that you do not have to spend a good deal of time working out to get the fat loss effects, and strength and muscle gains that will produce this environmentyou can actually get it done with 2 or 3 weekly workouts that last between 20 and 30 minutes, and still less time at an advanced stage.

Learn how to stoke up your Fat Burning Furnace at HealthNutFitness.com.

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10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Health Club Membership

By Fitness Guru

 Youve decided you want (or need) to get work out more and get fit. Youre thinking about joining a health club, but youve heard too many stories about people who sign up, go one or two times, and never go back. Youre not really sure which type of club to join: a low-cost chain, a more expensive, exclusive fitness center, or a club that caters to only women or men.

Buying and maintaining a health club membership can be pretty complicated, but if you follow these 10 tips, youll save money and be on your way to greater fitness.

1. Make a list of your specific fitness needs and wants. Will you be comfortable working out in a large club with both men and women? Will you need access to more than one club? Are you looking for one-on-one personal training services? How often do you think youll work out each month? Do you think youll be able to keep up your fitness regimen? How much can you afford to pay for a membership each month?

2. Once youve identified your requirements, visit health clubs that meet your needs. Get a free pass for each club (at least a one-weeks pass) and workout at each club as often as possible during the free periods.

3. Dont sign up for a membership at any of the health clubs while youre using free passes. Youll be under a lot of pressure from salespeople and managers, and they will tell you that you need to sign up today in order to get discount pricing. Dont. Health clubs offer discount pricing all the time.

4. When youve decided a health club, go back and speak with a salesperson about membership choices. Dont feel pressured to sign a long-term contract at any health club. Remember that long-term contracts are really installment loans with high interest payments. If you dont think that youre going to keep up your workouts, dont even think about signing one of these contracts. Gather all of the written information about each type of membership, then go home and review it at your leisure. Dont feel pressured to sign up for any membership at the club.

5. When youre speaking with the salesperson, ask all of the questions you want. Dont feel rushed or pressured. Never forget that any contract you sign supersedes any promises a salesperson gives you. Even if the salesperson writes it into the contract, it probably isnt legally enforceable. The contract is king. Read it carefully before signing.

6. Compare the costs of each membership type, and remember that you should make the ultimate decision based on your own needs, not on short-term discounts that may sound like youre saving money, but will end up costing you more money in the end.

7. Make sure you fully understand the cancellation requirements of each membership type. Many long-term health club contracts are almost impossible to cancel. A month-to-month contract may be a better solution.

8. Dont sign up for automatic payments via credit card. If you no longer want a membership, and youre able to cancel, you may find it difficult to get payments stopped.

9. Keep track of all your payments in case there are any disputes with your health club.

10. If you do cancel you membership, make sure you get the cancellation in writing from your health club.

By following these 10 tips, you will certainly set yourself up for fitness success.

The author writes about fitness, weight loss and body transformation. Read more on his blog, http://fitnessforu.info”

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