Weight Loss Exercise

Exercise as part of a weight loss program, increases your calorie burn and reduces the time it takes to lose weight. Also, exercise will help avoid loss of muscle tissue and focus the weight loss on the fatty tissues. This is why it is so important to combine exercise and diet control in your weight loss program.

If you are not used to regular exercise, we can show you how to condition your body to accept exercise and then gradually increase your levels of activity.

Exercises

Exercises are generally split into muscle-building and fat burning exercises. The technical terms are anaerobic and aerobic exercise respectively.

Muscle Building Exercises

These are where you perform movements against resistance such as a weight. A set of exercises targeting each muscle group are worked on. Each exercise consists of around 10 repetitions where you can only just complete the reps. The whole set of exercises is repeated 1 or 2 more times, sometimes adding more weight.

Fat Burning Exercises

Here the aim is to consume large numbers of calories. To do this, you need to elevate your heart rate to a level depending on your age that is optimized for fat burning. Ways to do this include fast walking, jogging and swimming.

To burn off a kilo of body fat in the gym you need to do around 20 workouts but actually more will be burnt due to the afterburn you get after leaving the gym.

One of the best fat burning machines is the stepper. On this machine, a Ninja can burn 200 calories in 10 minutes. On a bike it takes him 15 minutes.