If you want to burn fat while you’re exercising, and frankly if you’re exercising and you don’t I’m worried for you, then you’re going to want to get your heart rate to a minimum of 70% of its maximum. You can work out your maximum heart rate by subtracting your age from 220 and then multiplying it by seventy percent. As long as you stay within this range while you’re exercising you’re going to get the most out of whatever exercise you choose to do.
Contrary to popular opinion, training certain parts of your body will not burn fat from those specific regions alone. So, sit ups aren’t going to burn off your belly fat over everything else. You’ll tone the muscles in your tummy by doing sit ups but if you’ve got a lot of fat there anyway you’re not going to see them. When you exercise you’ll burn fat all over your body at the same rate and certain areas which naturally retain more fat than the rest of your body will be the last to have the fat burnt off them.
This isn’t an excuse not to exercise though! Far from it. This should be all the motivation you need to exercise. If it’s burning fat off your whole body then no matter what exercise you’re doing, providing you get your heart to 70% of its maximum level and keep it there you’re going to get leaner all over! It’s the first step in exercising your way to a thinner you!
Don’t forget that the most effective weight loss occurs when you compliment exercise with a healthy diet! So half an hour a day of heart pumping exercise without ruining it with cake or a chocolate bar will be your best chance of slimming all the way down the fastest!
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