Burning Fat Information
Why you Should NOT focus on calories burned during a workout session?
Just yesterday, I read an article talking about how many calories you can burn doing this activity and how many calories you can burn doing that activity.
This only proceeded to remind me again that we need to reevaluate what we are focusing on in our workouts - the duration of the workout or the intensity? The quantity or the quality?
By now I think you know the answer - quality, Quality, QUALITY!
High intensity training, such as interval or sprint training, is far more effective than doing moderate exercise for 1 hour. This is because after your 1 hour of moderate exercise, you are done burning calories from your workout.
But with high intensity training, you will continue to burn calories for up to 24 hours AFTER your workout - even in your sleep! It’s almost like the high intensity training puts your body into calorie-burning autopilot mode, and it is due to the fact that the harder your body works out, the longer it takes for it to recover afterward.
Trainer Alan Aragon sums it up by saying “Caring how much fat is burned during training makes as much sense as caring...
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Secrets of Food That Will Increase Your Metabolism
Metabolism can simply be described as the amount of energy the body uses to burn off food you have eaten -in short, it converts food into energy to burn. Your metabolism is constant, it never stops, only slowing down or speeding up according to signals you give through your food intake. While the actual metabolic process consists of thousands of chemical reactions, the process is actually quite simple and can be altered through adjustments in your diet.
If you have struggled through dieting to increase muscle while losing fat, it is highly likely to be a direct result of your metabolic rate actually slowing down and storing fat instead of speeding up. The change is likely attributed to many of the fad diets that are out there today. The fact is your metabolism feeds off of two main sources of energy - protein and carbohydrates.
Through the reduced protein and carbohydrate diet plans, your metabolism does not receive the fuel required to speed up the rate of processing food. Actually, your metabolic rate will decrease, and signals will be sent through your body of possible starvation, and fat storage is intensified. In essence, your body is going into survival mode,...
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