8 Top Tips to Burn Body Fat

Are you struggling to lose weight and wondering to yourself how do I burn body fat and get this weight off me the most lasting and effective way?Wonder no longer as the simple yet life changing answer if here…Start including strength training (or even just start working out!).So many of you probably avoid strength training because you have a major fear that it will bulk you up and you will develop large and bulky muscles right?Well you can take that idea out of your head now because that is the last result you will achieve!Being female means that you cannot bulk up from lifting weights the same way a man would.This is because you produce between 10 to 30 times less testosterone.Instead you will define and sculpt your muscles and what woman doesn’t want a tight, sculpted physique?The best way to burn body fat and get amazing results is to lift weights 3 times a week, coupled with interval training to get optimum results.Your body will then start to burn body fat and gain lean muscle helping you feel strong and look radiant.As your muscles mass increases so does your metabolism, which means for every pound of muscle that your body gains it will burn up to 50 calories each day, turning your body into a fat burning furnace.Strength training for women is not only aesthetically good for over all confidence but if you delve deeper into this subject you will find that there are far more benefits.1. Increased strength enables you to perform an everyday activity that requires lifting, pushing and pulling, so as you age you are able to cope far better with the everyday tasks in life.

2. Your tendons and ligaments become stronger, which supports your joints and decrease the chance of injury from other activities. A recent 12 year study showed that strengthening the lower back muscles had an 80 percent success rate in alleviating or even eliminating lower back pain.

3. Your metabolism will increase, so as you start to age you will be able to avoid the middle age metabolic sluggishness that unfortunately starts to occur at this time in your life. The main rule to keeping the pounds off in later life is not to cut back on your food intake but to keep up a good strength training program.

4. Osteoporosis is a major concern for all women around the world; it’s a condition that affects far more women then men. Strength training can dramatically increase your bone density reducing the risk of osteoporosis.

5. Strength training can help keep your heart healthy, lowering your LDL (bad) cholesterol and raising your HDL (good) cholesterol and also lowering your blood pressure.

6. Improved glucose utilization (the way your body processes sugar) by 23% in only 4 months, which means reduced risk of type II diabetes.

7. Extensive research has shown that lifting weights reduces clinical depression and lifts your mood. Enabling you to cope with whatever life throws at you.

8. The effects of lifting weights also help promote a good night’s sleep. This will help with concentration and managing everyday stress during your waking hours.Unfortunately some women who do lift weights are told to lift very light weights. This recommendation is often taken to the extreme, and they will perform many repetitions with extremely light weights or even (dare I say) tin cans or water bottles which still to this day are recommended by trainers and certain fitness magazines.Without sufficient load (weight), the muscle will not change, and the goal of “tone” and “shape” cannot be achieved. A change in the shape or tone of a muscle is created in the same way that size is created, with hard work and consistency!

In order to shape or tone your muscle, you must perform 10 to 12 repetitions and lift a weight that is heavy enough to take your muscle to fatigue’. In other words a weight that is heavy enough that by the last repetition you couldn’t possibly do another one without compromising your form.How well you lift is just as important as how much you lift. Sloppy form can lead to injuries and can greatly decrease the effectiveness of your workouts. For the best way to burn body fat aim for full body resistance based circuits that targets your entire body.I still hear the words ‘Spot Reduction’ far too much these days, it is completely impossible to spot-reduce fat.The region of the body that first reveals a noticeable decrease in body fat is pre-determined and is established by a person’s unique genetics.Targeting certain areas of your body will not make fat disappear, in fact it can have the complete opposite effect! For example, performing large amounts of crunches will not make the fat from your stomach disappear.WARNING! You can actually build muscle mass underneath your fat which can make that particular area look a lot bigger.

The only way to get a sexy flat stomach is to follow a good training program that will help you to burn body fat.On a final note, do not rely on the scales to track your progress.When you lose fat you will see a significant change in your overall body shape’ but this may not equally reflect the change in body weight’.You will however be able to fit into a smaller pair of jeans, which I’m sure you’ll agree is far better than seeing the number on the scales go down. This is because muscle is denser than fat and although it may weigh the same it manages to squeeze itself into a much smaller space in the body.So next time, think twice about jumping on the scales and aim for a goal where you can see and feel the difference instead!So there you have the no nonsense answers to the questions you’ve been asking yourself about how to burn body fat to feel and see the difference!You truly can go from Burning Fat to looking and feeling Scorching Hot!What are you weighting’ for? Get lifting…