Belly Fat Loser

Weather you’re trying to make good on your new year’s resolution or just plain want to lose some fat, gain some muscle, and get in better shape, it’s always tough to balance your quest for getter fitness with the rest of your busy life. To that end here are some fitness training tips you can use that will help.

Fitness training tip 1
Get involved in an organized sport – Yes, I know that time is at a premium, but being involved in a sports league (think basketball, tennis, hockey) can help make your fitness training program much more effective. Sure it may take a couple of hours a week when all is said and done, but you’ll reap benefits in both body and spirit. Participating in an organized activity can help make improving your fitness and staying in shape more enjoyable, and you’ll meet like minded people. That can make it much easier to maintain a physically active lifestyle. It can pay other dividends as well. You’ll expand your network, discovering other opportunities for improvement in your business and personal life.

Fitness training tip 2
Get up a bit early and do your cardio – Even better, get up at the same time, but leave your house a bit sooner. If you commute to work in your car, you can often buy yourself some free time by simply leaving earlier. Say you typically wake up at 6:00, get ready, then leave your house at 7:00 for the slog through traffic to the office, where you arrive at 8:00.

By simply waking up, jumping straight into your car and going to the gym, you may be able to cut your commute time in half. So instead of arriving at the office at 8:00, you arrive at the gym close to your office at 6:35 after a 35 minute commute. In many metro areas traffic doesn’t really kick in until about 6:15 or 6:30am, so if you can get on the road before that you’ll be rewarded with a much faster commute, less time pounding on the steering wheel, and much lower cortisol releasing stress.

You can do a quick, high intensity cardio workout from 6:45 to 7:05, after which you can take your shower, grab a healthy breakfast, and arrive at the office ready to close the big one. By simply rearranging your schedule a bit, you cut your commute time, saved gas, reduced your stress, and got in a great morning cardio routine.

Fitness training tip 3
Join a gym – Some people say that you should get a home gym so you no longer have an excuse not to work out, because everything is at your fingertips. I agree, having a home gym can be just what the doctor ordered, but there’s another side to the coin. If you are working out at home, there are myriad distractions constantly trying to sway your from attaining your goal. Kids, the kitchen, the phone, doorbell, or any number of other things can conspire to peel you away form your treadmill, squat rack, or dip stand. You have to stay focused and committed for a good ½ hr to 45 minutes in order to complete your workout.

On the other hand, if you have to go to a gym to work out, you have to stay committed only for the 2 minutes it takes to grab your stuff, hop in your car and get on the road. There, you’ve done it.  Soon you’ll be in a room full of other people working out and providing you with motivation to complete your routine.

There are also far more resources in a gym. You can vary your routine by taking advantage of the huge variety of different apparatus. That variability can be just the thing you may need to fend off boredom or bust through a plateau.

Fitness Training Tip 4
Use weights or some other form of resistance training – The prevailing wisdom in much of the public’s mind is that to lose fat you have to spend an hour or two every day on a bike, running through the park, or on the treadmill. Well, that’s not only plain wrong, it can be counter productive. All that running can put tremendous stress on your joints, and no matter how much glousamine and chrondroitin you take, it will take its toll.

By using resistance you can accomplish two things, in addition to shortening your time in the gym. You’ll gain muscle mass, which will stimulate an increase in your basal metabolic rate, causing you to burn more calories throughout the day. Doing that multiplies the efficiency of your training program. The other benefit is that you’ll firm up some of those muscles you haven’t used since 11th grade football. You’ll look better, which does wonders for your self esteem.

Cardio training does have a tremendous benefit, but one benefit it does not have is the ability to stimulate muscle growth to any large degree. In addition, if you read my post the other day, you know that performance studies have discovered that short, intense interval training has about twice the cardio benefit in terms of boosting efficiency as does long relatively lower intensity sessions.

These fitness training tips can help you lose fat and gain muscle faster, and isn’t that what it’s all about?

Until next time………………lose your bell fat.

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