Proper nutrition alone cannot reduce your weight sufficiently or adequately maintain your proper weight. However, proper nutrition combined with exercise will help you reach your goal of effective weight loss and you will feel more energetic and happy at the end of it.
Exercise is extremely important if you want to lose weight and keep it off. Aerobic exercise uses large muscle groups of the body and raises the heart rate to a range that will burn fat for fuel. As a result, aerobic exercise is one of the best ways to lose body fat. Aerobic exercise includes brisk walking, cycling, swimming, rowing, skiing and dancing. Please remember to consult a fitness expert to find out the best regimen for you.
Brisk walking is the simplest and most convenient way to exercise aerobically. You should walk briskly enough so that you can’t sing, yet slow enough so that you can talk. Aerobic exercise will make you feel better immediately by putting more oxygen into your body. Aerobic exercise also tones the heart and blood vessels, increases circulation, boosts the metabolic rate, improves digestion and elimination, controls insulin production, stimulates the production of neurotransmitters in the brain, improves the appetite and stimulates the lymphatic system, which aids in the removal of toxic material from the body.
Have you thought that having a high metabolism was others’ blessing, but not yours? It’s not. Your metabolic rate is dependent upon your muscle mass. The more muscle mass you have, the higher your metabolic rate. If your dieting efforts do not include exercise, you can begin to burn muscle mass to supply your body with amino acids and sabotage your weight-loss efforts by slowing down your metabolic rate. The body will begin to burn fewer calories and less fat. The more muscle you carry, the higher the metabolic rate and the more stored body fat you will burn – even at rest.
Another way to stimulate release of growth hormone is to be sure that you get a good night’s sleep. Growth hormone is secreted during stage three and stage four sleep, that occurs during the first couple of hours after falling asleep.
If you lose weight steadily and then seem to hit a plateau, exercise will help. By increasing the frequency and duration of exercise, you can break through that plateau and continue losing weight. Try to increase your exercise time gradually from twenty minutes to forty-five minutes. Just add five additional minutes of exercise each week until you reach forty-five minutes. Those stubborn last few pounds will soon begin to melt away.
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