How to exercise to lose weight

          Losing weight is all about your lifestyle. The best exercise to lose weight is the exercise you are doing. Choose an enjoyable activity and incorporate it into your life three to five times a week. The reason we exercise is that it helps to increase our metabolic rate so we burn calories faster.Also, studies show that for a few hours following exercise, we continue to burn calories at a faster rate.

          The truth is that you'll burn more calories with cardio (aerobic) exercise than with strength or resistance training. Strength training is important for the overall health of the body but the best exercises to lose weight are the cardiovascular ones. Cardiovascular, or aerobic, exercise generally uses large muscle groups, like abs, gluteal and quadriceps muscles, and works the torso and lower body. Several cardio routines (eg. walking, jogging, stepping, cycling) involve mainly the lower body, but some cardio-training (eg. elliptical training, power-walking, rowing, swimming, stair-climbing and cross-country skiing) involve total body workouts. Doing different activities recruits different muscle groups and you're less likely to develop an injury since doing the same thing day after day creates wear patterns on your joints.

          If you want to lose weight, shoot for at least 200 minutes of moderate intensity exercise a week. If you're a beginne start with 50 minutes of exercise a week and work up to 200. Anyone can lose weight. What's hard is keeping it off. It's so much easier not to eat calories than to burn them off. You can and do benefit from any sensible, painless, moderate exercise program. You can dance, cycle a stationary bike in front of your TV, go for a walk or play with the kids. Enough reading!

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