resistance training

If you are trying to burn fat, you really need to be doing some sort of resistance training. I see people struggle everyday to lose fat and get in shape even though they are spending hours each week in the gym. Spending time working out and spending time working out right are two different things. If you have been training for a prolonged period of time, you most likely have seen your workouts lead to progressively less results. Whatever worked in the beginning may not work anymore.

Whenever you start out, you may decide to walk on the treadmill for 1/2 hour, three times a week. This is more than you did without exercising and you will probably see some weight loss as long as your calories were also less than before. As your body adjusts to this type of exercise and gets more efficient, it doesn’t have to work very hard to walk for this amount on the treadmill. You can increase the amount that you spend walking, you can increase the speed and run more of the time, or you can raise the treadmill on an incline. These will all increase the intensity of your training and they all have their place in your arsenal. The problem with this is that eventually, you will get in better shape and they will also lose their effectiveness.

There comes a point that you just can’t make it consistently harder. You don’t want to spend two hours a day running on a treadmill! Lucky for all of us, this isn’t the best way to burn fat anyways. There are numerous studies that show that to burn fat and also keep the muscle that you have, you should be doing resistance training and interval cardio. If you are walking on the treadmill for an hour a day, versus resistance training with interval cardio, you will not burn fat effectively. This doesn’t mean that you need to be lifting weights for two hours a day in the gym with a bunch of muscleheads trying to be bodybuilders. Resistance training comes in many forms and some very effective ways can be done with only bodyweight exercises.

Craig Ballantyne from Turbulence Training has been talking about this for years. He has designed tons of different workouts that include circuit training with either bodyweight or dumbells and interval training on a treadmill or other cardio machine. Most of these workouts can be done three times a week for around 45 minutes total. This includes both the resistance training and the interval cardio. I have followed this style of training whenever I am looking to lose some weight and get lean. It always works great and I always go back to it. Some people follow this type of training year round and get incredible results. As I get older and am now less enthused about how much I can bench press or trying to still squat 500 lbs, I am leaning more towards this style of training year round also.

This is a great way to train for both men and women, whether it’s in a gym or at home. You don’t need a ton of fancy equipment and you don’t need to spend your life training. Another great thing about this type of training is that you don’t have to have someone to spot you. You won’t be doing dangerous exercises that require someone to help you out if you get stuck with a bar on your chest. You can train alone if you wish or with a training partner. I know some people that are just starting to exercise are self conscious and don’t want to go to a gym around all of those people. You don’t have to join a gym with this style of training, although you will most likely make better progress than most of the people that go to gyms. Most of the people that I see in the gym, are lost and really do not know how to train effectively. So get off the treadmill and give it a try. You will get better results and probably have more time to do other things in your life.

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Author: Kelly U
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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