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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Exercising Helps You Live A Healthier Life

By Austin Stern

Every year people across the world make New Year's resolutions. These resolutions range from going back to school to saving up and buying that expensive car they have been eying for the past few months. But one of the most common goals people make around that time of year is the decision to get their butts into gear, and get themselves back in shape.

If you are looking to get slimmer and to build lean muscle then working out is a great way to do it. You tear your muscles, which repair themselves and grow bigger and stronger, when you provide resistance or exert yourself. There are different ways, either with cardio or even lifting weights, that you can burn fat (and calories).

Depending on which workout method you choose, you will exercise different muscles which will vary by activity. Whichever method you choose though, you will be burning calories if you are exerting yourself. We want to get rid of calories, and so if you are being careful not to take in as many calories through eating a you burn through working out, you'll be in good shape (literally)!

Cardio exercises stress the amount of oxygen the body can hold during strenuous activity, forcing the heart to pump faster and in turn forces the body to burn more calories. Some examples of cardio exercises are walking, running, swimming, and bicycling, just to name a few.Cardiovascular activity also boosts an individuals oxygen capacity, which allows them to run, swim, or overall be active longer with less stress on the lungs and heart as time moves forward.

Strength training exercises, better known as weight lifting, is the practice of lifting a weighted object against the force of gravity, often to tear muscle to them later have it grow as it heals. Strength training is quite popular across the world because it is easy to get started. Many people use it to tone their bodies (or to make themselves more attractive), its also a great way to burn those troublesome calories.

A very cheap (in fact, free) form of strength training is resistance training. instead of using free weights, you use your body's weight and gravity to provide the resistance. Sit-ups are a really good example of body resistance training as are push ups.

You can really burn fat quickly with strength training. Although you've probably heard that muscle can weight more than fat, it does, but do not worry. When you engage in strength training, you are building muscle which adds pounds (good pounds) but it also burns away fat quickly, causing you to lose very unhealthy weight.

Whether its the middle of the year, or New Years, its never a bad time to start working towards your weight loss goals. Not only will you slim down, but over time youll discover your level of strength raise and your energy increase as well. As the old catch phrase and t-shirts said, no pain no gain. - 17269

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