How To Lose Weight Now

The fact that you’re looking for effective fitness and exercise routines straight away puts you head and shoulders above others looking to lose weight.Why?

Because you appreciate the importance of an effective workout and you’re unafraid to put in the effort to achieve your new slimmer figure.

Kudos to you for that.

Now clearly exercise is going to be most effective when taken in combination with a carefully controlled diet.

However we have discussed diet in great detail elsewhere on this site so lets take the time to focus on an effective fitness and exercise workout to help you lose weight.

There are ideally two aspects to a fitness program - aerobic and anaerobic exercise.

Aerobic exercise is that which you carry out for an extended period of time such as running or swimming.

Anaerobic exercise refers to weight lifting and building up muscle and so toning up.

Let’s look at these two elements in greater detail.

Aerobic exercise is the obvious one. We all know how running, swimming or cycling is effective in helping you to lose weight.

But to derive maximum benefit from the time you spend exercising we can apply a number of additional principles.

Firstly try doing your aerobic (cardiac) exercise first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.

Exercising later in the day (such as after work) means the food in your gut will be the energy source your body uses.

You’ll burn up little fat unless you literally force your body to do so - because it’s hard work so your body would rather use energy more readily available if possible.

By exercising first thing in the morning before breakfast there’ll be little or no food in your stomach as you won’t have eaten since the previous night.

In this way your body will be forced to activate other energy sources to keep you going - most significantly the fat reserves that are making you overweight.

Also rather than exercising for an hour or more as some people recommend consider exercising for shorter periods of time (20-30 minutes - 45 minutes at the maximum) but with greater intensity. This tends to increase the fat loss.

Lastly wait at least an hour after aerobic exercise before you eat any food.

Even after exercise your body will be looking for energy to restock the muscles and once again ensuring your stomach is empty will encourage fat burning to get this energy.

And besides, exercising after a large meal can result in stitches, cramps or a generally poor workout.

The other element is to weight train 2-3 times a week - but only on days where you’re not doing aerobic exercise.

Muscle needs a lot of support from your body and so by toning up, this extra muscle will use more energy - so you’ll lose more weight than with less muscle.

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