The Importance Of Aerobic Exercise In Your Diet Plan

Great you have decided to go on a diet and you have picked a diet plan that fulfills all your weight loss criteria. You realize you need to exercise to maximize your weight loss plan. Why? By cutting your calorie intake and watching what you eat is usually enough to start your body to burning the fat. After a period of time you will either have to cut more calories or find a way to burn them off. Your body will in effect slow it's metabolism down and start a dietary response called the starvation response which basically shuts down all important aspects of the body and starts hunger pangs that are impossible to ignore.

Which exercise is the best for you to burn fat. Should you do aerobic exercises or should you do weight training? Both. Yes both types of exercise will maximize any weight loss program. You will need to increase your calorie deficit and get your body to work. When doing cardio I do not mean dance music or fancy choreography and calisthenics. I mean you need to choose a regimen that will not only get the blood flowing but make your body and the large mass muscles work.

You have a wide choice of exercises to choose and do not be afraid to mix and match your aerobic exercises. You have a broad range of choices in exercises from walking, jogging, bicycling, stair climbing, rowing, cross country skiing, stationary biking and elliptical exercises. These exercises are designed to do a couple of things, the first is to increase your heart rate and strengthen your heart muscles and the second is to get your large mass muscles moving and burning energy.

The previous exercise are the most efficient ways of getting your body to burn the fat. Exercises like basketball, tennis, golf, racquetball, house or yard work are good exercises but these exercises all have built in rest periods. You want a exercise that is continuous. These types of exercises will start to burn fat and the short intermittent exercises or activities will usually burn carbohydrates because of the short duration of the activity.

I am not saying not to do those activities just that biking and other exercises in that group are much more effective in your overall weight loss diet plan. Get in the habit of doing these exercise at least 3 times a week to start and you should increase this to 6 or 7 times a week depending on how much weight you need to loose.

If you have a large amount of weight to loose start with a exercise that you can monitor your heart rate and work up a good sweat. These exercises are designed to get your leg and lower back muscles working and working continually so they increase the amount of calories that are burned. By doing aerobic exercises daily you will increase your chances for weigh loss immensely.

Do not short cut your workout as even with as little as 12-20 minute aerobic workout you have some health benefits. With this little of a workout you will see a decreased blood pressure, decreased blood cholesterol, lower resting heart rate and a overall better feeling. This is good but not enough for you to see a large amount of fat burning away. Stick to the aerobic plan and burn the fat and loose weight quickly and safely.

By: John M. Bito

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