An Effective Way To Burn Your Fat

The best method for burning fat, no matter where it is, is to make the body burn the fat for energy. The only way to do this is to boost your metabolism. Increasing your metabolism burns excess calories and eliminates fat throughout your whole body.

Trying a starvation diet to achieve fat loss will only leave you frustrated and looking for another solution after a few weeks or even days later. Ignore all the hype out there that suggests simply lowering calories will magically strip the fat off your body. These types of diets are not realistic because they are impossible to maintain for a long period of time. That’s why the best way to burn fat is to make some lifestyle change that you can apply for the long term.

What used to be considered the standard of eating three square meals each day is no longer recommended. Having only three meals a day means more total calories at each sitting, making it tougher for the body to digest food for fuel and tougher for your metabolism to catch up. That’s why eating smaller meals every day is a better way to keep your metabolism firing throughout the day.

Eating these mini-meals will give your body just the right amount of food needed to keep your metabolism working and use the calories for energy, not storing them as fat. You’ll burn more calories and lose more weight, by having a raised metabolism throughout the day. It’s important to eat breakfast everyday. Waiting until mid-morning or afternoon to eat will only cause your metabolism slow down and you won’t burn any extra fat. Besides eating an early, substantial breakfast, the best way to burn fat is to plan an eating schedule of 5-8 small meals a few hours apart throughout the day.

Everyone knows that in order to lose weight, increase our metabolism, and improve our health we must exercise. When you don’t exercise, your body’s metabolism starts to slow down. Exercise is an important aspect of fat burning and improving body shape. Many people still believe that cardio exercises are the most effective way for burning fat and increasing your metabolism. Times have changed.

The most effective workouts for burning fat are a combination of interval training and strength training. Adding weight training to your workout is one of the best ways to burn more fat. Because of the damage that strength training does to your muscles, your body has to expend a great deal of energy to repair them. This repair process increases the number of calories you burn after your workout.

Interval training allows you to benefit from both aerobic and anaerobic training at the same time by mixing bursts of high intensity work with low intensity periods of recovery. Interval training elevates your metabolism significantly more after you finish exercising while your metabolism returns to pre-exercise levels which allows you to burn more fat than with aerobics or traditional cardio.

I often get asked, What’s the best way to burn fat and lose my belly? People want to know if aerobics is better than strength training, or if traditional cardio exercise is better than intervals. Cardio is not the best way to burn fat. Intervals are a better fat burning workout to burn belly fat.

With over 15 years experience helping others, training myself, training for sports, spending countless hours in the gym, AND actually conducting laboratory research studies on different exercise methods, I’m pretty confident in knowing what works and what does not.

But first of all, I want to frame my responses. I’m going to talk about what works for people that have a limited amount of time to exercise, mostly because I expect your readers don’t have 90 minutes per day to devote to a workout, unlike the typical audience of a fitness magazine.

That’s why there is a huge disconnect between some of the information found in magazines and the ability of the reader to apply it to their lives.

We just don’t have 6-8 hours per week for exercise, nor do we need it. If you’re a triathlete, you might need that, but not someone that just wants to lose fat and gain muscle.

Having said all that, the bottom line for getting a better body is…

Use bodyweight exercises to warm-up, strength training supersets to build muscle, and then finish your workout with interval training to burn fat in a short amount of time. I’ve structured my system so that you are in and out of the gym in 45 minutes, three times per week.

You’ll do 5 minutes of bodyweight exercises to warm-up. This is a much more efficient approach than spending 5 minutes walking on a treadmill, which really doesn’t prepare you for anything except more walking on a treadmill.

Then we move into the strength training supersets, where we use two exercises performed back to back with minimum rest between each. This cuts our workout time, while still giving us maximum results. We only need 20 minutes for this, and we’ll use basic exercises, and sometimes even more bodyweight exercises, depending on the client’s goal for muscle building.

And finally, we’ll do 18 minutes of interval training. A warm-up, followed by six short intervals at the appropriate fitness level for the client, interspersed with short periods of low-intensity recovery. Finish with a cool-down. And that’s the workout. Again, about 45 minutes total.

Compare that to what most people do, which is run, jog, cycle or use the cardio machines for 45 minutes straight. Sure, that will burn calories, but it doesn’t build a better body.

In fact, there are a few “dark sides” to long slow cardio, including less-than-optimal results, the potential for overuse injuries, and it is an inefficient form of exercise. If you only have 30-45 minutes for your workout and you spend it all on a cardio machine, when are you going to train the rest of your muscles and sculpt a better body?

So the best way to burn belly fat is with a combination of strength training and interval training. It’s fast, it works, and it’s fun!

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