A lot of diet programs make impressive claims about how you can lose anywhere from 20 to 50 pounds in a month. What they don’t tell you is that weight loss like that is only possible if you’re losing water weight, muscle weight, and body fat. Most people want to keep the muscle they have, and getting dehydrated is bad for your body, so what’s the best way to burn just body fat?
Exercise Plan for Burning Fat
A solid exercise and weight lifting routine is a good start. Focus on high-intensity exercise in short bursts for best possible results. Studies have shown that short bursts of high-intensity exercise such as sprints, interval training, or circuit training will not only get you in good shape and burn calories, but can also increase your bodies natural HGH (human growth hormone) production.
You’ve probably heard of actors, such as Sylvester Stallone, and athletes, like Alex Rodriguez, who’ve been caught injecting themselves with Human Growth Hormone and thought that it was some kind of a steroid. The fact is that all of our bodies produce HGH, but as we age the amount of HGH production decreases. This decrease in HGH can lead to lower energy levels and increased body fat.
The level of HGH that your body produces is safe and you should do everything you can to increase your natural HGH production, as HGH is reported to decrease body fat, increase muscle mass, increase bone density, increase energy levels, improve skin tone and texture, increase sexual function and improve immune system function. Those are all good things!
If you like to jog, a good strategy to maximize HGH production is to warm up for 5 minutes, then alternate sprinting as fast as you can for 30 seconds, and jogging for 90 seconds. Repeat at least 6 times (more is better) and then cool down for at least 5 minutes.
Weight lifting is already more suited to HGH production, but don’t pause for too long between reps. Your goal is to push your muscles until they burn for best results!
Eating Plan for Burning Fat
Many newer diet programs use a form of carb rotation to encourage your body to burn fat. This involves eating little to no simple carbs on some days, and increasing your carbohydrate intake on other days. This keeps your body from getting too comfortable with your diet and deciding that it can pack some of those calories away in the form of fat, and it also encourages your body to burn fat at the same time.
By combining a solid exercise program and a reasonable eating plan, you give yourself the best chance to lose unwanted body fat and to reach your goal weight. We recommend getting on a good diet program, as following a blueprint can make weight loss much easier. One great plan that uses both of these approaches is the Fat Burning Furnace.
