Your metabolism is a key to continued and permanent fat loss. It is regulated by your resting metabolic rate (RMR), physical activity, and your food intake. Your RMR counts for 70% of your calorie burn daily. Your RMR is directly influenced by your lean muscle tissue. The more lean muscle you have, the more calories you burn at rest as well as during activity.
Muscle is your fat burning engine, it: Burns more body fat while you are at rest. Burns significantly more body fat while doing any activity. Improves your training performance, which increases the fat burn during activity and after activity. Makes you look leaner. Makes you stronger for everyday life.
It is critical to use resistance (weight) training and to eat adequately to maintain or create new lean muscle tissue, which keeps your metabolism high. By just restricting calories alone, you will lose actually muscle and hurt your metabolism.
Muscle is one of the greatest tools you have for building the physique you want, it gives you a lean looking physique and burns fat and calories for you — how nice.
Circuit weight training is ideal for increasing metabolism and stimulating the growth of lean muscle tissue. Circuit training is basically performing a series of exercises in a row, with minimal rest.
Depending on your current fitness levels, you want to use medium to high repetitions with weights that are challenging. Make sure you train all of your muscle groups with compound and whole body movements for balanced development and functional strength.
You have to consume enough of the right types of foods to ensure that you maintain muscle and recover from your training sessions. Protein is critical for repairing and building muscle. If you skimp on the protein, you will lose muscle, which will lower your metabolism.
Protein is made of the essential building blocks that support everything from your muscles and skin to your hair and nails. Carbohydrates are crucial to giving you the energy to perform at your best in life and while exercising.
Fat is consumed in a carbohydrate flame! It is the kindling that sparks the fire. Fats are essential for your energy and optimal function and must be included in a healthy diet. Especially important are the omega 3 fatty acids that induce fat metabolism and optimal health.
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