Weight loss for health

Work, rest, and play is an advertisement mars bar chocolate have used to promote their product. And while the words go well put together my aim here is not to sell chocolate, rather to immerse you in the understanding of how when these 3 words are in action in life they will help you to burn fat faster.

Let’s start with work. I’m referring to exercise or energy expenditure or kilojoules used. Exercise done with the right amount of intensity and frequency can be looked at as work. In life we work to do the job and get the task at hand done and complete. When we exercise it should be used with the same theory, focus on the job, and get it done until it’s complete. We will always be working in our lives whether its working for someone else or you work for your self. With exercise it should be applied to your life the same way you will always need and have to do it, whether you like it or not, it’s a done deal. I think we need to start to get used to this idea as too many people are looking at exercise the wrong way, they think I’ll do it just for my wedding or just until we go on holidays or just until I lose 10 pounds.

Exercise is a lifelong job, so start to get employed or enroll in the activity you are going to start and get moving. Remember you can change your activity anytime you get bored or when the body adapts.

Choose an exercise or activity you enjoy, if you played basketball when you were young, you may decide to play another sport as you are older maybe. Golf can be a great sport to play due to the amount of walking you end up doing on the golf course.

The next word in action is rest and may well be the part you enjoy most. However here is the thing you can have a rest as long as you have earned it! Ensuring your exercise or activity has produced enough energy expenditure or intensity of work meaning you are huffing and puffing then you can take a break.

If you are weight training which should be part of your exercise routine, you will need to rest for 1-2 minutes between sets due to the intensity you are working at before you can complete the next set. You should also be having 1-2 rest day in-between workouts to ensure adequate recovery of the muscles and just remember when the muscles are sore they are growing and when they grow they help increase your metabolism and therefore start burning fat faster. Too often people go straight back into the gym and over train the muscle, if you don’t allow the body time to repair you will get poor results and suffer being de-motivated and possibly give up. Now you can see how effective rest is in burning fat fast.

Now it’s time for the fun part play most people think I just need to be a little bit more active and I’ll lose weight. Well the truth is the play part should be on top of what you already do with your exercise routine. Yes it will be energy expenditure however generally you won’t work your heart rate up enough to be burning calories. The play part is like a break or time out or can be you have now lost weight and you have more energy to be playing with your children or playing with your mates like you used to or more confident walking onto the beach in your bikini or shirt off and playing cricket in the summer sun. Now that you have added new lean muscle tissue to your body you will be burning fat while you play and that’s the additional benefit!

All in all work rest play to burn fat fast is combining all three together and once you have completed your workout you can enjoy a treat mars bar once in a while.

We hear a lot of the time people’s reasons for no exercise, and some may very well be valid. However once you understand the impact it is having on your body and rethink the major health benefits it can have to your body you may start to think twice.

Most people are aware of the major health implications of overweight and obesity but do they realize enough the answer can be solved through proper nutrition and exercise to gain major health benefits?

The only way to burn fat non stop is to add lean muscle to your body through weight training. To gain a great fat burning workout needn’t take much time nor should you worry about where you are located whether you are going on holidays or home with the kids. People who do weight training know this. You need to perform a variety of exercises that work the major muscle groups in the same workout to simulate growth of lean muscle tissue while speeding up your metabolism and providing an increase in cardiovascular conditioning.

Don’t despair this does not mean you need to go and join a gym. Equipment at a gym is useless if not used properly. The most important part is to understand how your body moves and create the movement pattern or exercise workout around these movements. All that is required is a few dumbbells or barbells and a bench or solid chair at home if you wish to get you started.

To prepare for the workout you need to have everything accessible to you in that moment, the great part about learning the routine that will work is you don’t need to worry about waiting at a gym for a piece of equipment to use. Best of all, the workout only takes about 15-30 minutes of your time, plenty of time left to do the things you love.

It is a good idea to get a setup at home so you can utilize anytime, so you don’t have any interruptions and can focus on your workout and rest periods. At home it also provides the advantage of not having to be too intimidated by working out with weights in front of guys or ladies.

Another reason people don’t fit in their workouts is due to travel. The advantage is once you have your program set you can then take it anywhere you go to continue to burn fat non stop. Most people say they are going on holidays and say my holiday will be my break from my workouts ‘No this is the worst thing you can do, keep going if your workout needs to be adjusted then ok. Its very easy to go on holiday not worry about it and only to come back and say I ate too much and drank too much and now I have to work it all off again. There are plenty of fat burning workouts you can continue with while you are on holidays.

Bodyweight exercise are often the best, for example push ups, squats, chin-ups, sit-ups, all work the major muscle groups and provide conditioning to the muscle to keep you going until you are back to your workout routine at home.

Excuses be gone decide to continue today on the path of burn fat non stop.