Thursday, May 22, 2008

Intensity Training Keys - Speeding up your fat loss

Have you ever really wondered how some people are able to lose weight easily and others just struggle and sweat but always have that disappointed look on their face?

Imagine you knew a secret or two that made the weight losers into the successes they are. Well if you want to find out those secrets, I will divulge one, however before we start lets first talk about Intensity Training.

If you aren't doing it, you are severely limiting your ability to lose weight. This is no longer a secret rather a science proven by multiple studies, Intensity Training is the fastest way to lose body fat. The secret in this article will boost your Intensity Training results immensely.

I once trained a middle aged gentleman who was convinced he had a genetic disposition to being fat. "It's in my genes", Mr Harris used to tell me and for the first week or two it looked like he was right. The scale needle looked like it was glued onto his weight.

"So what intervals are you doing?" I asked him. "That machine that works your arms like you are swimming….." he replied. One small tweak to this program and his weight began to fly off.

So what's one of these supercharge changes that's going to accelerate fat loss. Well, the secret is in the choice of muscles that you use to do your Intensity Training.

If you know the basics of why Intensity Training works, then you will know about a little process called Epoc. It's the process of your body replacing the energy stored in your muscles that get used up during intense exercise. This store is an emergency reserve for your body and when it gets used up the body rushes around in a bit of a panic trying to replace it.

If you are on a sensible nutrition plan the only place the body can find energy is to start shoveling out those fat stores. Bigger muscles have bigger stores of energy that need to be replaced. The more energy needed to be replaced, the more fat will be required for energy.

Just think about it this way, what would use more energy, intensely exercising your legs or going balls to the wall on your bicep. So weight loss tip one is use bigger muscles for bigger fat loss.

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