Exercise
If you want to reduce your body fat, focus on increasing the amount of exercise you get rather than decreasing your food intake. A recent national study was done using two groups of sedentary men, one group in their 20\'s and the other over age 65. A lot was learned from this accumulated data and it is interesting to note that there was a significant relationship between lack of physical act...
If I had to pick a single factor that I thought was most important in a successful exercise or weight loss program, it would be to exercise first thing in the morning... every morning! Some mornings, you may just be able to fit in a 10 minute walk, but it\'s important to try to do something every morning. So why mornings? 1. Over 90% of people who exercise *consistently*, exercise in the morni...
Strength train while losing weight
The solution to all of this, the strategy I want to focus on here, is to engage in strength training while you are losing body fat. If you do this, then you will be able to maintain the muscle mass that you already have underneath your body fat while you are in the process of losing the fat. This will leave you with a greater proportion of lean body mass to body fat, meaning that you will be slimm...
Don't lose the muscle you've already built
So with that crazy myth covered, let\'s get back to the main point here, which is that engaging in strength training will conserve the muscle mass you have now. Now here\'s why this is so important. It\'s very easy for your body to shed useless muscle. So if you\'re not using a muscle, your body will get rid of it over a few months. It\'s gone. But to gain that muscle back -- now that takes some e...
Don't forget the glycogen fuel stored in your body
The other thing to keep in mind when you\'re using the bathroom scale is that when you first start limiting your calories, your body is going to start burning through its glycogen stores. Glycogen is basically a fuel stored in your body. It stores sugars together with water and locks them up in the tissues and organs of your body like an energy battery, ready for you to use at a future time. Th...
Engage in weight training when losing body fat
Now let\'s get back to the main point, strength training and why it is so important. So far, I hope I\'ve explained the idea that underneath your body fat you have a strong musculoskeletal system. There\'s a lot of muscle mass and good, strong bones underneath all of that body fat. If you find a strategy to conserve that, even while you\'re losing body fat, then you can have a much more successful...
15 seconds of stress creates new muscle
In fact, there\'s a system of strength training called static contraction training that is outstanding for maintaining current muscle mass and even enhancing it if you choose to go that far. The best thing is that it takes very little time. How much time am I talking about? You\'ll be amazed to hear this, but literally, it\'s true: 15 seconds per muscle group per week. Only 15 seconds per muscle. ...
Now, some people say "Well, I can\'t join a gym, I can\'t exercise, I don\'t want to go to that website and look up static contraction training, I don\'t want to do that, I don\'t want to pump weights. What do I do instead?" There\'s a great solution for people who don\'t want to pump weights, and I understand a lot of women are in this situation, nothing wrong with that. You can be very...
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