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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Get The Most Out Of Your Weight Loss At The Fitness Center

By Robin J Hayes

Most of us want to lose weight and get fit. Beginning an workout program or joining a gym always seems like a great first step but if you have ever spent any time at a gym you will observe that not everybody there makes improvement on his or her fitness goals. It is not being at the gym that helps you to get fit but it is how hard you work at fitness that makes the differentiation.

You are going to have to break a sweat in order to see any real results from an workout program. You will need to get your heart rate into the training zone and make sure that it stays there for a time. There have been some studies in the past that have revealed that exercising for longer periods of time at a lesser intensity will actually burn more fat than carbohydrates. However good that sounds sorry to say it does not convert to fat loss.

Whether you are essentially burning fat or carbohydrates as your main energy source during an workout program is not nearly as critical as how many calories you burn altogether. For instance if you may burn 350 calories during an easier but longer workout and those calories may come from fat, but if you add in some difficult intervals of high intensity you may burn as many as 750 to 1000 calories in that same workout and even though you will be burning a combination of carbohydrates and fat you will still lose more fat.

High Intensity Interval Training or HIIT for short is one of the most useful weight loss regimens that you can use to lose fat. The idea is to maximize your heart rate to 90% or more for a period of 30 to 60 seconds and then bring it back down and repeat. Make sure that throughout your rest periods though you are still in the target-training zone, just at the lower end. When you incorporate HIIT you will be so much more efficient that you can even cut your cardiovascular exercise time in half and still have better outcomes.

In order to establish your target heart rate training zone, take your age and subtract it from 220, then take that number and multiply it by 60% and 80%. This gives you a target heart-training zone. In order to see the best results you will need to keep your heart rate in that zone while you are doing your exercises.

Another essential aspect to losing fat and maximizing your fat loss at the gym is to lift weights. The fact is that in order to burn the most calories by just living everyday you must have more muscle. Muscle is physically active and it helps your body to burn more calories just by being there. Fat is basically an inactive substance and it does not help your body burn any calories at all.

Exercise is critical but you won't see any results from an exercise program unless you also have a high-quality diet. Abdominals are built in the kitchen, not at the gym. Making sure that you eat a healthy and nutritious diet is without doubt the most critical part of any fitness program. You will never see results unless you follow a healthy diet.

If you want to capitalize on your weight loss the most imperative fundamentals should be to incorporate some HIIT into your cardiovascular workout, begin a good weight-training program and improve your diet. If you do all of these basic things you will see results quite rapidly. - 17269

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