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Did You Know that you Can Firm Muscles and Burn Fat with Spending Just a Few Minutes a Day?‘Tis the season to gain weight, but it isn’t necessary or mandatory. In just a few focused and well spent minutes a day, you can train your body to firm muscle groups, burn fat, and enjoy the added benefit of having more calories burned by your new muscle weight. Does this sound too good to be true? Here are a couple of exercise habits and routines that will keep you on track as a fat-burning, muscle-churning machine!
1. Use the heaviest weights possible. Since many people use weights that are too light to make much difference, use weights that are heavy enough for you to do at least eight repetitions of any exercise. When those eight repetitions get easy, then go to heavier weights again. 2. Use the stairs. When given the opportunity in any context- at home, work, in stores, at the airport, in a parking garage- use the stairs. A constant working of the leg muscles will quickly develop all the muscles in your legs and gluts, and the aerobic exercise is also good for your heart and lungs.
3. Use Variable Rates for Exercising. Research has shown that variable rates of fast and slow exercising have the optimal benefit for a workout. If you are a runner, then run at a quick pace for ten minutes, then slow down for ten minutes, run fast again for ten minutes, and then slow down for the last ten minutes. This burns more calories that a constant rate of exercise.
4. Exercise While Watching Television. Most people watch tens of hours of television per week, and the time spent indoors increases with the lack of daylight hours during the winter months. You can do floor exercises, yoga, pilates, and stretching moves while watching TV. Take your hand weights with you to view your favorite program, and get the benefits of exercising while being entertained. That’s why many gyms have TV’s available for viewing.
5. Just Twenty Minutes a Day. Research shows that just twenty minutes a day is all that’s needed to get people more physically fit. The consistency over time is the important variable for exercise, not necessarily the intensity of each workout session. If you exercise for twenty minutes a day, six or seven days a week, you will be fit and feel fantastic!
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