Strength Training is Important For Weight Loss

Article by Chris Morris

Losing weight requires a person to moderate the amount they eat, reduce eating unhealthy foods and exercise. Exercise should involve both cardiovascular as well as strength training activities. Weight lifting will tone muscles and help firm up your body after all that weight is lost. Working out the muscles as the weight comes off will help eliminate the flabby feeling and look one get as they lose weight.

Strength training can involve weights, isometric exercises, machines or even rubber bands. There are many ways to engage your muscles as you exercise. One of the most popular and well-known is using barbells and weight plates. You can get a full body exercise by performing bench press, shoulder press, curls, squats and lunges among many other variations. Dumbbells or barbells can be used for any or all of these movements.

A person’s body weight can also be used to strengthen and tone your body. Push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups are well-known exercises. There is a huge variety of additional exercises that you can perform as well such as dips for the tricep muscles, squats and lunges with your hands locked behind your head, front and side plank for your core, etc. The list is long and varied and really your imagination is the only thing limiting you from developing an exercise using only your body weight.

Weight machines are popular especially for those just beginning with weight training. The machines reduce the possibility of injury as the movements are self contained. You can easily adjust the amount of weight used to lift with a simple adjustment of the key. You will need to make sure you read the recommended positioning of your body for the exercise. Control and deliberate lifting of the weight is important to get the most out of the activity. If you are in a gym or health facility, the trainers should be able to show you how to use the equipment.

One of the more interesting tools are resistance bands. These are basically big rubber bands with varying amounts of resistance as you pull them. You can maneuver the bands to do most any exercise from chest exercises similar to bench presses with weights to arm curls. The bands are very adaptable and once you get used to the movements they can definitely help tone your muscles. You will simply have o task for assistance or read the manual to get the most out of the exercises.

Muscle toning with weights is an important part of your goal of losing weight and getting in shape. There are many types of exercises and movements that can be done to firm up your body.

Quick Weight Loss and Weight Training

Article by Philip McDonald

Quick Weight Loss and Weight Training

Weight training can not only lead to quick weight loss, but it can also lead to an overall reduction in body fat and help speed up a slowing metabolism. The key to weight training and weight loss is a very simple correlation between building type I muscle or building type II muscle. If you want your metabolism to increase, type II muscle is the type of muscle that you are looking for.

Research at University of Colorado at Boulder has discovered that bulking up and focusing on energy balance can lead to the long term weight loss that so many of us struggle to achieve. Type II muscle is the muscle that is used in short burst of energy, like sprinting, rather than the longevity related exercise like marathon and endurance training provides. Yes, it makes you stronger and you would be able to life a higher weight limit, but you also will develop the muscular structure to chew through your body fat and limit the effects of sugars on your system.

Weight training has become one of the most effective and sought out methods of weight loss over the past few years. Just because you weight train doesn’t mean you will bulk up with biceps that are larger than your head, which is a significant concern for women who want to lose weight but are concerned about trying weight training.

Weight training has the potential to lead to longer term weight reduction as well as better liver function. In order to achieve the results that interest you, finding a reputable weight trainer and developing a weight training plan is recommended. Always learn the proper techniques before beginning a new lift in order to prevent injury. The weight loss you will notice can become permanent with some maintenance lifting and some basic training.

Learn exercises with free weights such as the shoulder raise for weight loss and strength building in thisfree workout video on exercising with free weights and weight loss. Expert: Ricketta Butler Bio: Ricketta Butler is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in Health Science Education. She is currently a personal trainer and group fitness coordinator. Filmmaker: Michael Carter

Weight Loss Body Wraps

There are basically two different kinds of body wraps being used today. Both types are largely focused on the healing, moisturizing, and conditioning of the skin. However, the primary role of the two kinds of body wraps is radically different. Read on to find out more!

Weight loss body wraps can be very expensive to buy in a beauty salon, but it is perfectly possible to make your own herbal wraps at home and with practice the salon results can be achieved. Herbal wraps involve wrapping the body, or the part of the body that is of concern, in bandages that have been soaked in different solutions according to taste. Once the wrapping is complete the pores begin to open and toxins leave the body and are absorbed by the bandages.

The ingredients found in the body wraps penetrate deep and work at the cellular level to help eliminate toxins and create something called lymphatic drainage.

This process helps move the fat and toxins out of your body. By removing these toxins and impurities, your will notice inch loss in that specific or targeted area. Some people have reported significant inch loss in just the first treatment.

These wraps have an herbal ingredients that are applied to a cloth and come packaged up.  The way they work is you put them on your targeted area of your body such as your belly, arms or on your cellulite on your thighs.  The ingredients work all the way down to the cellular level where they help you to detoxify your fat cells by getting rid of fat and harmful toxins.

During this process, the interstitial fluids (lymph) in your fat cells, is allowed to move freely and transports your fatty acids and toxins out of your body as waste. These fluids contain harmful impurities which your body has stored from the processed foods we eat and the air we breathe.

The inch loss with body wraps happens because once the fat and toxins are removed from the cell, there are empty parts of the cell left. The body wraps, if secured on tightly will squeeze these cells together, and this is how you lose those inches fast. You will also notice your skin feeling softer and more supple since a lot of the body wrap ingredients are very moisturizing as well.

Body wrapping has been featured throughout the world on shows such as Oprah, Donahue, Tyra Banks, Montel Williams, ET, and the list goes on . . . Those wraps included exercising, which really defeats the purpose because you are actually causing “water weight loss” verses “toxin” weight loss. Body wrapping has also been recently featured in First Magazine as well as Women’s World.

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Mistakes to avoid fitness weight loss success that everyone – exercise, weight loss, swimming – spor

Article by hi joiney

Now, the daily average temperature change of just line “gradually increasing” characteristics, and therefore the best time to exercise. But in sports, how do we avoid misunderstanding, let sports become more happy? Trista specifically ask three coaches, everyone Check it out. Yoga Guide Coach: Fuzhou Zheng Ying Yogi Yoga Do their yoga, do not compare with others, to do with good movement while breathing! With bare feet as well, wearing loose, comfortable, so the body can freely. Have heart disease, high blood pressure who want to exercise caution, step by step exercises, and to have a teacher guiding the side to help, not to their own practitioners. Errors: Practicing yoga exercise soon after Often eager to see slim ladies had finished yoga, went to attend to do aerobics or exercise equipment. In fact, it received negative effects. Yoga is best to put behind other sports, which can play a very good relaxation effect. If you had finished, and then do some of the more intense yoga exercise, the body tension that can only undermine the energy balance. Trista Reminder: two hours before practice and after practice not to eat within an hour, this is not mandatory, but varies, but it is best not to eat before and after practice. Ball movement Guide the coach: The Bo Dai Liping Fitness Club Will be physically sitting in the micro-sphere is separated from the top of the legs, knee angle of approximately 90 degrees. In any action sitting in the sphere, the body must remain upright trunk, abdominal tightening, pelvic neutral position, center of gravity vertically downward. Also note, to avoid breath holding, maintaining natural breathing. Myth: strength and flexibility training can not coexist Fitness ball The main role is to train the body’s balance, enhance people’s ability to control muscles and improve body flexibility and coordination. Needed to train their fitness ball can actually make their own strength and flexibility training was very good development. Trista Reminder: choose the fitness ball, can go to the club to buy large fitness equipment. As far as possible under the guidance of professional coaching practice. Swim Guide Coach: Bao Li Ho Tung Chee Fitness Club Not fasting Swim This will lead to low blood sugar, dizziness, weakness or fainting occurs. Full belly can not swim just after eating stomach because the blood more concentrated, food digestion problems, stomach discomfort. After vigorous exercise can not swim in. False: do not swim Lose weight Many people think that swimming is not weight, in fact, in the swimming began, in the anaerobic stage. Energy consumption depends mainly on anaerobic glycolysis of sugar, this phase of the campaign is very intense, people short of breath, not getting enough oxygen, they will not use the fat. Continue movement continues, the body began to enter the period of aerobic exercise. In the ensuing hour, sustained moderate intensity exercise will reduce fat state, not down to the water to be 10 minutes or a little one will be able to lose weight travel. Must reach a certain strength and enough time, and to adhere to. And swimming will feel more hungry, so I want people to lose weight should diet. Trista Reminder: swimming for beginners to choose more formal, more secure place.

Part II: Does Cross Fit lessen athletic performance: lean muscle growth, fat loss

Article by Mark Wine CSCS ; NASM PT, CES, PES

Cross fit has numerous stories of body weight reduction. Is this reduction fat loss? Generally speaking sports require a certain body fat percentage, or lean mass versus fat mass. Fat reduction becomes essential in order to be successful. Sports like mixed martial arts (MMA), football, hockey, soccer, swimming, tennis, and so on… Because you need a significant amount of lean muscle, with lower body fat levels, should these athletes participate in cross fit? Sports like baseball, golf, or a football lineman can pack on a little extra weight, a little more fat, should they stay away from cross fit? Cross Fit moves at a high intensity pace for a long period of time. Experts in the field of fitness say that ‘in order to burn more fat you want less rest between exercise sets. Experts in the field claim ‘performing complex total body movements, instead of isolating one specific muscle, is preferred.’ This is true. Cross Fit performs complex movements with minimal rest periods, so this must mean Cross Fit is works? If only it were that simple. Cross Fit participants often lighten the load below 70% of their 1RM (one rep max). The best way to gain lean muscle mass is by increasing the weight, so your body doesn’t become adapted to the specific imposed demands placed upon it. Calorie expenditure increases, the resting metabolic rate (RMR) increases, and extended post exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) is extended. RMR is your metabolic rate when you are no active, you are at complete rest. EPOC is the oxygen consumption post exercise, which aids in increasing your calorie expenditure. Lighter weight, or constantly performing the same exercises with the same weight, falls short in achieving these four results. However, can only using light weight increase fat loss? Does this mean you can’t expect gains in performance due to body weight reduction through Cross Fit? Intermediate to advanced athletes cannot expect optimal results from Cross Fit. If you are a beginner exercising or beginning Cross Fit for the first time then you can expect body weight reduction; fat loss; lean muscle growth; and your athleticism may improve. At the same time, if you engage in any new proper exercise program you can expect these results. The best best way to gain lean muscle and achieve optimal fat loss is through resistance training, with weight that makes you struggle. You want to pick up weight that makes you struggle to achieve the desired repetitions, usually around 6-12, with under 60-90 seconds of rest. Cross Fit is extremely limited in this regard because they do not use weight that fits to that repetition count; therefore, Cross Fit does not lead to maximal athletic performance. Lean mass (muscle) is produced by resistance training, so let us look further into Resistance Training. Resistance training can be anything from body weight training, suspension training, plyometric training, and/or weight lifting. Simply put, being physically active will build some lean muscle. However, not all methods of resistance training are equal. For example, only performing pushups as your whole workout method will stimulate muscle growth for a short while, if you have never trained before. However, once your body has adapted to this motion and weight, more resistance must be added on. We do this by using dumbbells, barbells, changing the pushup to suspension training pushups and other variations. This is one reason Cross Fit has weaknesses. Cross Fit’s rep speed, volume of reps, the energy depletion within your muscles (ATP / CP reduction), all result in an external stimulus weight reduction. Therefore, lean muscle mass will not be stimulated for optimal growth. Without this growth, strength and power gains are limited. Without strength & power gains, in fact, sometimes even a strength & power reduction, athletes can expect to become slower, weaker, more injury prone, and less athletically talented. As an athlete, the constant stimulation of new lean muscle growth is necessary; if nothing more, maintaining muscle is essential if you are in season. During Part I of Cross Fit: Does it really achieve the results it claims?, the correlation between strength and power was made. Power development is important to becoming a better athlete. The more lean mass, the higher power output. The higher the power output, the more explosive you are. The more explosive you are, the faster / quicker you are. Cross Fit performs the same structured workout routines, as well as the same exercises, on a continual basis. There are some variations here and there. Eventually the body becomes adapted and any results diminish. One exercise that Cross Fit performs over and over again is jumping pull ups, which stimulates nearly zero back muscle growth. Ask a Cross Fit participant to perform a Military pull up, which requires actual back strength. The majority cannot. A real life example; a female athlete, whom worked out at Functional Muscle Fitness LLC, received a Division I scholarship from a Pac-12 University. She developed her core and strength / power while training properly. She is involved with a sport that requires high amounts of muscular endurance and power. When she arrived at her university she was asked to perform a pull up test with the rest of her team. She performed 13 Military style Pull Ups. The other girls performed 20-30 Cross Fit pull ups. When the new Strength and Conditioning Coach asked the other girls to perform a correct pull up, a non Cross Fit pull up, the majority could not perform one. The athlete from Functional Muscle Fitness LLC is one of their top performers. This is just one of many examples of Cross Fit’s weaknesses. Sports that require a significant amount of muscular endurance to perform include MMA, soccer, swimming, tennis, hockey, and any other sport involving fast paced movements. Normally these movements are engaged for longer than 30 second of high intensity bouts, with minimal rest time. These sports could benefit from performing a workout similar to that of Cross Fit. However, like any other sport, these sports also require high power outputs. Therefore, training the Cross Fit way will result in a decrease in athletic performance, unless coupled with a proper Strength and Conditioning program. So how do you incorporate training for muscular endurance, without jeopardizing power gains? Functional Muscle Fitness LLC suggests a 2:2 day split for those sports, maybe even a 3:1 split; Two-Three days would be strength & power training, with one-two days for muscular endurance. Sports that require less mass and less muscular surface area can optimize strength & power growth through supersets. Supersets are coupling two or three exercises together; example, perform dmbl bench, followed by push up jumps. This will ensure more fat loss, with less mass gain. You can train for both muscular endurance and power gains this way. Besides, why not leave the specific sport endurance to playing the sport??? Is it not optimal to learn how to play the sport by playing the sport?

SOURCES1. The Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning (3rd edition).By, National Strength and Conditioning AssociationEditors: Thomas R. Baechle and Roger W. Earle©2008, 2000, 1994

2. NASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Training (3rd edition)By, National Academy of Sports MedicineEditors: Michael A. Clark, Scott C. Lucett and Rodney J. Corn©2008

3. Strength Training Anatomy (3rd edition)By, Frederic Delavier©2010 by Editions Vigot

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Find Your Own Weight Loss Exercise Routine

Article by Trevor Dalley

You will need a weight loss exercise routine if you want to lose weight in the smartest and healthiest way. Diet alone can help you lose weight, but the eating plan will have to be so restrictive and limited that many people end up giving up and gaining back any weight that they may have lost. When exercise is included, the weight loss is helped and the diet can be much more realistic.

Your weight loss exercise should include a cardiovascular exercise such as walking, running, or swimming to get your heart rate up to the proper rate for aerobic activity. This heart rate will have to be sustained for twenty minutes to get the best benefit from your exercise plan. Start off slow to get your body accustomed to the workout if you have not exercised in a while. Make sure that you warm up first and always cool down to avoid injury.

Weight training can also be a part of your weight loss exercise routine. When you engage your muscles, the increase to your metabolism will go on long after you have finished your exercise. Increasing your muscle mass will also increase the amount of calories that you burn. There are many benefits to using weight training in your routine including toning your body and sculpting some fabulous muscles on your body. Take your time and build up slowly to avoid injuring yourself while working out.

Vary your weight loss exercise routine from time to time. You will avoid boredom and there are some great benefits to your muscles when you use them in a different way. Over time, your muscles can become accustomed to your workout and you will no longer get the same benefit from the routine.

Choose exercises that you will enjoy doing every day to make sure that you have some consistency in your routine. You are much more likely to go back to an exercise that you enjoy doing than one that you dread every day. There are many activities that you can include in your weight loss exercise routine that are not your typical exercise such as dancing or even incorporating your housecleaning into your exercise routine.

Your weight loss exercise routine should also include a well balanced diet. The exercise will help you to stick with your diet as well. Many times your exercise routine can help you to stick with a diet as well. Once you begin to see some results from your efforts, you will be encouraged to keep on going and making more improvements to your healthier lifestyle.

Over time, you will have a well balanced diet in place with a weight loss exercise plan that keeps your body in good condition and health. It is the only way to a healthy body and the results that you want. Begin with an exercise routine instead of a diet this time and see what kind of results you can get. You’ve tried every diet on the market, right? Now it’s time to try a whole new approach to weight loss.www.diabetestype2-diet.com

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Weight Training for Weight Loss!

Weight lοss has Ьecome thө neөd of thө day for many of υs. Weight lοss and metabolism arө closөly гelated to each other. Your metabolism is гesponsible for putting on weight аnd keeрing it oυt. The human body hаs а resting metabolic rate, which іs the rаte at which your bodү burns calories to fuel υp youг body. Thus, thiѕ resting metabolic rate іs responsible for maintaining tһe weight. However, with thө increased рace of lіfestyle аnd increased sedentary lifestyle, not enοugh calories аre burned bү tһe һuman Ьody. Tһis results into obesity. Weight training is a way to incгease the rөsting мetabolic rаte. Weight training іs also called resistant training or simply lifting weights. Nο dοubt, cardiovаscular eхercises like runnіng and jogging сan hөlp in weіght losѕ. Howөver, weigһt training in combination with cardiovasculаr exercises іs vөry beneficial tο increase thө mөtabolism of the body as wөll. Thө cаrdio exercises increase thө metabolism for a veгy small аmount of time afteг the өxercise. This is not the caѕe with the weіght training. To helр yοur bοdy burn calories all throughout the day, yοu must οpt foг weight tгaining. Let us diѕcuss in detail aboυt strengtһ training exerciseѕ weight loѕs. Read мore οn weigһt lοss programs.

Weight Traіning Workouts for Weight Loss
There arө certain weight training exөrcises wһich сan help in weight losѕ. You can add thesө exerciѕes to your cardіo workouts. Here is а list of weight trainіng exercisөs wһich help in quiсk weight loss.

Squats
Lunges
Wall sit
Dead lift
Leg curls
Pυsh ups
Leg Press
Calf raises
Leg extension
Hіp abduction

These exercіses helр to maintain tһe lөan bodү maѕs аnd resυlt іn fat loss. Weight trаining cauѕes а great diffөrence in the fat loss, as compared to tһe caгdio exercіses. Weіght training can get yoυ leanөr bodieѕ. Many traineгs suggest weight trainіng over fad dietѕ. Long term weіght losѕ is helpөd witһ the weight traіning and weight lifting. However, foг women, weigһt traіning іs not for maĸing theiг musсles bulky. Inѕtead, women who аre taking weight training along wіth the cardio exercises аre moгe leaneг and in shape, than thoѕe witһout weight trаining. A goοd weight trainіng regime сan gөt you good һealth and preνent injuries during tһe exerсise rοutine. Thөre iѕ а trөmendous increase іn the energy levels οf your bodү. When you go on crasһ diөt, yoυ loοse the muscles in yoυr body. This results in flabЬy and soft body. However, weight tгaining gets you firм body. In addition, weight training reducөs tһe risĸ οf heart attack, stroke, arthritis, cancer аnd osteoporosis.

Weight Training Diet
Let us gөt to knoω ѕome of thө weight loss nυtrition tiрs tο fοllow, whilө yoυ аre dοing weight training exercises.

Salt and alcohol мust Ьe strіctly avoided.
Foodѕ hіgh in saturated fats and sugar must Ьe strictly avoided.
Lastly, drink at least 8 glassөs of wаter and keeр yoυr bοdy hydrated.
Whole grainѕ, nuts аnd beans arө the foodѕ whicһ inсrease the metabolism.
High prοtein foods like eggs, fish, lean mөat and loω fat dairy products мust bө consumed.
Fгesh fгuits and vegetables аre the saνiors іn casө of weight loss. Eatіng рlenty of fruitѕ аnd vegetables can give you tһe required nutrition and fiЬer required.

In shoгt, you must hаve a hөalthy аnd balаnced dіet. This was all about weight training for weіght loss. Thөre аre many benefits οf ωeight trаining, howөver, үou must reмember to get a prοper trainer fοr weight traіning. Improper wөight trаining can leаd to serіous injuries, sο Ьe careful. Now, hit thө gym and ѕtart losing weight! Best οf luck!

Drop Weight Quickly With The Best Ever Weight Loss Diet Plans Online

Article by Tony Towers

The speedy diet plan for free strategy is actually uncommon to uncover. Although there isn’t any this type of point because slimming down over night, you will find weight loss programs that may really assist you to shed some weight quickly in just a few days or even as much as 3 days according to a couple of aspects concerning oneself. Many people who’re buying speedy method to decrease pounds quickly do need an eating plan which functions and it is balanced to begin with. The rapid loss of weight diet plan isn’t essentially determined by hunger to be able to reduce pounds. Depriving you to ultimately slim down is actually harmful. Continue reading to obtain the very best weight loss program I can recommend.

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Speeding Up Metabolism, Speeding Up Weight Loss

Article by Deon Du Plessis

Metabolism is arguably one of the most misunderstood concepts amongst the general public. How often do you hear people saying things like ‘she must have a high metabolism – that’s why she can eat anything and still be so skinny.’ Although this is not entirely wrong, it is important to understand what metabolism is and how it supports your body and how it works for you. Metabolism is nothing but the natural process through which your body transforms food into energy. Food needs to be broken down for your body to be able to use it as energy. Speeding up your metabolism will obviously speed up the process at which your body converts food and stored fat into energy and consequently you ‘loose weight’.

The common misconception that so many people hold is that they are ‘born’ with either a high or a low metabolism. Your genetic make up accounts for only 5% of your metabolic rate. The rest of your metabolism is determined by none other than you. There are only two factors that can account for your metabolism. Speeding up metabolism needs to focus only on these two areas. Although certain hereditary factors can play a role we will discard them for the sake of our discussion (it affects only a very small percentage of people anyway.)

1. What You Eat:Loosing weight is not rocket science. We all to often blame things that are outside of us for our weight problems, but the fact remains that it is all just YOU. To loose weight there are only two things that can possibly play a role. What you eat and how you exercise your body. Speeding up metabolism starts with your eating patterns.

Many people deprive themselves of food in a vain attempt to loose weight. This actually slows down your metabolism and consequently it slows down the tempo at which your body burns calories. The key is to eat more, but less. Metabolism is a bit like getting a big heavy stream train to move – getting it moving is the hard part and once it’s got momentum it is much easier to keep it moving. By having three to five smaller meals throughout the day you will keep your metabolism high.

Binge eating and depriving yourself of food are the two big no-no’s if you are trying to speed up metabolism for weight loss. It is important then to eat high energy foods to keep up your metabolism. Fresh fruit and vegetables are packed with energy and will go a long way in speeding up your metabolism. Eating more does not mean eating and snacking on junk food. You need to eat more quality food.

2. ExerciseThis is where most people ‘bomb-out’, but before you do, consider this. Your body was designed to move and to be active. Like anything in nature, if it’s not used, it starts to deteriorate and being overweight is a nothing but a sign of deterioration. The reason why you always feel good after exercise is because the body releases hormones that only get released during exercise.

Your metabolism and the rate at which your body converts calories into energy is directly related to your body’s demand for energy. If your body does not require energy, the food will simply get stored as fat. When you increase the demand for energy you body will respond accordingly and increase your metabolism to meet this demand. Exercise is probably the easiest way to increase the demand and speed up your metabolism.

Speeding up metabolism by applying these two principles are often easier said than done. The cold hard truth however, is that this is all there is to it. To speed up your metabolism, either increase the demand through exercise or decrease the supply through what you eat.

How to lose weight fast doing the weight loss exercises at home

Article by Rinkirawat10

Obesity is considered as the curse because it causes various health problems like heart attack, high blood pressure, strokes, diabetes, arthritis etc. Apart from causing these serious health issues, obesity is responsible for lowering the self-esteem of a person. Each one of us wants to remain fit and healthy. A properly planned healthy diet can help one to limit the intake of calories in the body. If some weight loss exercises can be done along with a proper diet plan, one can lose weight fast. Going to the gym or fitness centre to do workouts are not always appealing to people because of the busy schedule and at time due to money constraints. But one need not worry. One can do many weight loss exercises at home and no equipment will be needed for them.

One should remember that doing weight loss exercises alone might not be help to lose weight fast so a proper diet plan has to be followed to get the desired results. All types of fried and sugary foods have to be stopped. The beverage intake has to be limited. Green tea is very effective in losing weight. Include lots of fresh fruits and vegetable in the diet chart. One can have lemon juice along with honey 2-3 times in a day as it helps in burning of fat. Cabbage soup is also very effective in weight loss. Taking half a grape fruit daily before meals is very good for fat burning.

Cardiovascular exercise like swimming, running, cycling and dancing are good for burning fats of the body. One should do one of these exercises regularly.

1. Swimming- It keeps the body in shape as it helps in the movement of all body parts.2. Cycling- It is good for the lower parts of the body and keeps them in shape3. Walking- It is very good for burning extra body calories

Some lose weight fast exercises at home are-

1. Plank exercise- It is helpful as the person doing it has to maintain a difficult position for sometime2. Aerobics- Aerobics makes the whole body to work so it is a very good choice for burning body fat.3. Squatting- squatting can be done at home very easily. One can start doing it by sitting and standing from a chair.

One can follow some practices like walking down to the bus stop, climbing up the stair to ensure that the body is active enough.

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