If you’re planning on losing weight fast, then you need to learn how to burn more calories than you are used to during a workout session. There are certain strategies that you could put in place that would help you burn calories more efficiently.
Below are 3 ways that you could burn more calories during your workout session:
1. Interval training
Interval training is one way that has proven to increase calorie burning. It doesn’t take a lot to do. All you need to do is create a short interval between moderate and intense period of workouts. Spend two to five minutes at a moderate or convenient pace, increase your efforts or intensity of the workout for about 2 minutes, and then repeat this cycle for the duration of your entire workout time. What this does is to throw your body out of homeostasis (metabolic equilibrium) and this requires your body to work at restoring balance for up to 24 hours, causing you to burn more calories even after the activity.
For instance, a recent study done in the USA involved an interval workout of four minutes of gentle cycling on a stationary bike with 30 seconds of sprint cycling. It was discovered that participants burned 200 more calories than usual throughout the day after this workout.
The key is to push hard during the shorter intervals and then recover with the longer ones.
2. Longer Workout Sessions
Interval workouts might be faster and all whatnot, but they’re also very tough, and are particularly ideal for people of advanced physical fitness. So if you can’t go through with it, then there’s no need to beat yourself up over it. All you need to do is simply increase the amount of time that you spend exercising.
When you do cardio for a long period, let’s say more than 2 hours, your body runs out of glycogen, a sugar stored in muscles to fuel activity. This will cause your body to learn how to burn fat instead of glycogen which will, in turn, make weight loss easier.
3. Nourishment
You must know that you’ll burn more calories with a vigorous workout, and in order to do these workouts, you will need ample energy. Now the best way to get this energy is by eating the nutrients your body needs for the workout, and these are mainly carbohydrates and protein, and probably a little bit of healthy fat.
For maximum energy, you could eat any of the protein foods available. Fruits like bananas and avocados could also come in handy. Make sure to eat at least 2 hours before exercising.
Conclusion
These are 3 very efficient ways by which you could burn more calories. For a greater challenge, you could try to combine elements of all three into your workout sessions.
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