Easy Ways To Burn More Fat
Clients at Rising Fitness Gym in Houston, Texas, tell us how grateful they are to finally succeed at their goals. Each person is special here and has an individualized program. One thing many have in common is the desire to build more muscle and burn more fat. There are many things you can do and some don’t require a lot of effort, but do require consistency. Every little bit counts, so even if you burn a few extra calories, if you do it and other small changes every day, the results compound.
Vary the intensity of your exercise.
Even if you’re walking, you can vary your speed and intensity. Studies show that altering between a brisk walk and a more moderate recovery walking pace can burn more calories and get you into shape faster. It’s called HIIT—high intensity interval training. It builds cardio strength faster and ignites fat. You can modify any exercise with this technique, whether it’s doing bodyweight workouts, cardio or even running up the stairs. HIIT workouts also burn calories even after you quit. It’s called afterburn or EPOC. It increases calorie burning by as much as 15%.
Lift something heavy and build more muscle tissue.
Do you want to build strength and muscle tissue, lift something heavy. Unlike aerobic workouts that do burn tons of calories, but those calories come from both lean muscle and fat, strength-building exercises build muscle tissue as it burns calories. Muscle tissue requires more calories to maintain than fat tissue does. The more muscle tissue you have, the more calories you burn 24/7.
Focus on your diet.
Without a healthy diet, your fitness goals will be harder or even impossible to reach. Everyone knows that you need lots of fruit and vegetables, but there are other things you can do. Increasing protein in your diet can help. It causes you to feel fuller faster and longer, so you’ll probably eat less. It also helps you build muscle tissue. Make sure you have healthy fat in your diet, too. Healthy fat is necessary to help you burn fat and like protein, fills you up longer.
- Opt for compound exercises. Compound exercises like jump lunges and burpees exercise multiple joints, muscles and tendons, burning more calories and working more muscle groups in less time.
- Get adequate sleep. Your body needs sleep to build muscles and maintain healthy hormone levels. Too little sleep causes an increase in ghrelin—the hunger hormone and a decrease in leptin—the satiety hormone.
- Drink more water and ditch soft drinks. An 8-ounce cola has as many calories as an apple, but the apple has nutrients and fills you. Studies show that people who drink soft drinks, particularly diet ones, have more belly fat.
- Some foods are calorie burners. Green tea is one of those and so is coconut oil—when compared to other oils. The medium chain fats in coconut oil can boost metabolism by as much as 12%.
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Are you subject to yo-yo weight loss, losing weight only to gain it back a few months later. It may be a problem caused by how you shed those pounds, rather than something that’s wrong with you. There is a way to burn fat and keep it off permanently, but it requires making lifestyle changes, not crash dieting. It starts by making simple changes, like having a healthy snack available, like an apple, rather than waiting until you’re starved and opting for a donut or candy bar.
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At Rising Fitness in Houston, Texas, we use a holistic approach that uses science to focus on exercise and nutrition, while providing a sense of community. Switching from white bread to whole wheat is one way to boosting your health and there are also benefits of wheat germ oil. When white flour is processed, the bran and wheat germ are removed, all that is left is the endosperm, which has few nutrients. The bran of the wheat berry provides fiber, while the wheat germ provides all the nutrients. It only makes sense that oil made from the nutrient rich core would be beneficial for your health.
There’s a lot of talk about when your last meal of the day should be. Should it be hours before you go to sleep or can you eat right before you go to sleep. What are the problems of eating right before you sleep? Weight gain and acid reflux are attributed to the problems it causes. While it’s proven that acid reflux can be caused when eating at bedtime, there’s varied opinions about whether it causes weight gain. After all, a calorie is a calorie, no matter when you eat it. However, some people can’t sleep, so consuming some foods to help you sleep better might be the answer.
There’s a lot of scientific language that makes it more difficult to understand simple things. For instance, the term macronutrients can be a bit intimidating. It shouldn’t be. It’s the name of the category that includes three types of food, carbohydrates, proteins and fats. The other category is micronutrients and those include vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. There’s a lot of debate about whether counting macronutrients to lose weight is better or focusing only on calories. Eating healthy and ensuring you have enough of each micronutrient is what is important, but you can do that while you count calories.
At Rising Fitness in Houston, Texas, clients normally stick with their schedule, particularly on the weekend. Consistency is ultimately important to get maximum benefits, and they know it. They don’t sabotage their hard work by skipping a workout over the weekend, because they know that consistency is necessary for fitness to become part of their healthier lifestyle. Staying active over the weekend and enjoying physically demanding activities, whether it’s fun like family hiking or far less fun, like vigorous cleaning, is also important.
Do you suffer through a long recovery after a particularly intense workout? Eating a combination of carbs and protein after a workout could relieve that. Consuming protein after a workout can help reduce muscle pain and is necessary to repair the microtears in muscle tissue, while being also important for muscle growth. Protein is ultimately important for faster muscle recovery.
Portion size counts. While it’s not important if you’re eating lettuce or most other vegetables, when it comes to food higher in calories, portion size counts. People often wonder why they aren’t getting the success they expect, but upon questioning, I find they make a lot of portion size mistakes. Think about it, you could eat the whole stalk of celery, bag of carrots or head of lettuce and it won’t make much difference to your calorie count. However, there’s a huge difference between eating a few potato chips and a family size bag.
If you workout at Rising Fitness in Houston, Texas, you’ve probably already have heard of hummus and maybe even have a few great variations of it that you love. It’s not just good for you, it’s delicious. It’s made from chickpeas—also called garbanzo beans, olive oil, lemon juice and a paste made from sesame seeds called tahini. It is higher in fiber than other types of dips and high in protein. That means it keeps you feeling full longer and help you lose weight.