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Everybody
wanna lose weight, but what you should really want is to lose fat.
I’m
gonna be brutally honest, losing weight is EASY. All you have to do is
participate in a crash or starvation diet.
But
what you really should do is lose fat. Losing fat has many more benefits than losing
weight. An individual can lose weight and still look sloppy. In addition, you
may lose the weight but not the weight you want. The weight you wanna keep is
muscle weight and the one of course you wanna lose is fat weight.
Weight Loss
Aerobic exercise
helps you burn off fat calories by making your muscles work harder than usual
for limited periods of time. Strength training exercises, on the other hand,
help you burn off fat by increasing your body's supply of muscle tissue. This
works because muscle tissue burns through calories relatively quickly, and
increasing the size of your muscles amplifies your body's calorie-burning
capacity. Participation in either aerobics or strength training can lead to
weight loss. However, muscle tissue is also quite heavy, and individuals who
lose fat through strength training can potentially gain weight despite
depleting their fat reserves. Strength training can lead to weight loss.
However, muscle tissue is also quite heavy, and individuals who lose fat
through strength training can potentially gain weight despite depleting their
fat reserves.
Fat
Loss
Each pound of fat on your body comprises roughly 3,500
calories of food energy. To lose this fat, you will need to burn off more
calories than you consume in your daily diet. Normally, this goal is most
easily achieved by making reductions in your calorie intake and increasing the
amount of exercise you get each week. You can lower your calorie total by
eating less food or choosing foods that contain fewer calories. You can
increase your activity level by participating regularly in moderate forms of
aerobic exercise, such as biking or brisk walking, or by participating
regularly in strength training exercises such as weightlifting and body weight
exercises or calisthenics. Strength training is KEY to obtaining fat loss.
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