In your quest to lose belly fat and create a life with permanent weight loss, has anyone ever told you to exercise less? You're probably wondering what the catch is. Well, yes, there is a catch and here it is.
Exercise less, but with more intensity. A lot of the weight loss and fitness industry recommends long, boring cardio workouts as the primary form of exercise for burning fat. Now this kind of exercise can burn fat, but it is not the most effective method available.
True, you do burn fat while you are exercising, but it can cause your body to start saving a reserve of fat to use during you next long cardio session. This means that if you want to burn more fat, you have to do more and more of the cardio exercises.
This doesn't work for me. Especially since I struggle finding the time to exercise at all. I need the most effective workout I can get that requires the least amount of time.
The way to lose belly fat and create the permanent weight loss results you are looking for is by increasing the intensity of your exercise.
This is because of the way the body responds to a stimulus. The greater the stimulus, the greater the response from the body, provided you give it time to rest and recover.
So you can work hard, or you can work long, but you can't do both effectively. If you're working hard enough, you literally won't be able to work very long or often. As you challenge your body to improve, you'll need extra rest to get the maximum benefit from your exercise.
When you are working with sufficient intensity, your body begins to primarily burn calories from the carbohydrates in your muscles instead of body fat. And after the workout is over, your body begins to burn existing body fat and calories to fuel the growth and repair processes that occurs.
And here's an amazing bonus. Your body can continue to burn body fat like this for up to 48 hours after the workout is over! Now you're working smarter instead of longer. And you're turning your body into a fat burning furnace. What a great way to lose weight naturally.