Here you have. 8 Fat Burning Exercise Secrets Used By My Personal Trainers To Create Great Programs For Our Clients. Achieving optimal results in the shortest possible time. These methods are tried and true. If not, I would not write them here.
1. Exercise is essential every day
Ok, you should know this by now as you’re reading this article, but I had to add it because some people forget. Without a doubt, exercise is the most important factor if your goal is to lose unsightly fat. Sure you can lose weight with nutrition alone, but losing fat and losing weight are two totally different ball games. Exercise helps mobilize fat cells and encourages your body to preserve the muscle tissue it still has. Exercise and nutrition go hand in hand. You cannot optimize fat loss with one and not the other. Best practice is to do a minimum of 20 minutes of high intensity exercise per day followed by 30-40 minutes of lower intensity exercise.
2. Feed the muscle
It still amazes me how few people realize that it is your muscle tissue that burns calories for you. 5 pounds of muscle tissue can burn up to an additional 250 calories per day; that’s a lot when you add up over time. Over the course of a year, that’s a whopping 91,250 calories (250 x 365). That equates to more than 25 pounds of body fat in calories per year. So make sure your exercise routine is designed to preserve your muscle tissue, if not build some more.
3. Do weights
OK Let’s hope the above fact helped you make the decision that muscle tissue is the key to a long and healthy fat free life. Therefore, lifting weights is extremely important for maintaining or even building muscle tissue. This must happen. In addition to the muscle-sparing properties of resistance training, you should realize that weight training can actually burn just as many calories as other types of exercise. More weight training will cause you to burn calories while your muscles repair themselves. In fact, studies have shown that a good weight training session can boost your metabolism for up to 3 days.
4. Get rid of isolation exercises
This one is for all you old school gym enthusiasts out there. High reps with low weights on countless shoulder, biceps, and triceps isolation exercises are useless for fat loss. Yes, they do have their place if you are already a super lean fitness competitor and need to develop symmetry, or if you have strength imbalances that need to be corrected. But for the most part they are wasting valuable training time that you could be using for better fat burning exercises.
5. Compound Raises and Full Body Functional Movements
This isn’t rocket science here, but a simple truth that I see many gym-goers ignore. In fact, I think I’ll state this as the first law of fat burning: the more muscle you’re using at any given time, the more calories you’re burning at that time. Therefore, the absolute pinnacle of a fat-burning routine would be doing full-body resistance exercises for the entire workout. Although most students take months to reach this level of training.
6. Rest is for the wicked
Well-timed rest between sets is generally essential during a workout if you want to build generous amounts of muscle tissue, but it’s not essential if your goal is to lose weight. Yes, if you want to burn calories faster, you will have to try to rest as little as possible when you go to the gym. This will make your workouts much more efficient and get the most out of it. Like the previous strategy, little or no rest during a workout can take some time to develop.
7. Cardio can be done with weights
All you have to do is ask any of our customers and they’ll quickly tell you how great a cardio workout is for weight training with one of our trainers. Combination workouts that integrate many different resistance exercises into one routine will sequentially increase your heart rate and provide great cardiovascular benefits. This is also a great way to burn the maximum number of calories in the shortest amount of time.
8. Don’t be afraid to get help.
Doing it yourself may seem like a good approach to losing fat, but hiring a professional will be much more effective and faster. Just like home renovations, hiring an expert will probably save you time and money in the long run. Get yourself a good trainer who will help you design a good fat burning workout routine and help you with your nutrition. Consistent use of a personal trainer has been shown to increase success rates by over 300%.