Saturday, May 23, 2009

10 EFFECTIVE STEPS TO LOSE WEIGHT

1. Get a good balanced diet plan from an expert nutritionist, to shred your excess flab.
2. Eat a heavy breakfast, do not have 3 staple meals, split the portion into 6 meals a day, this will increase your metabolic rate.
3. It is 60% diet and only 40 % exercise to loose weight
4. Exercise like walking and swimming which uses the bigger muscle group is only popularly known as cardio, these exercises will increase the endurance of your cardiovascular system and burn the excess calories, but will boost your metabolic rate only for a limited time.
5. Only strength training which builds lean mass, will boost your metabolic rate, because muscle is the only active tissue which demands energy. To build muscle you must eat sufficient protein because amino acids are the building blocks of muscles.
6. Use light weights and work all the major muscles of the body, such as lats, pecs, deltoids, biceps, triceps, q’ceps hamstring and calf.
7. If you don’t have weights , try 10 pull ups in your house, 15 push ups, use heavy books and work your shoulder, biceps and triceps, for the lower body do 20 squats and 20 lunges, do calf raises near the wall- google up the terms, you will learn the exercise.
8. Along with this do not neglect your abdominals, instead of starting with crunches start with core exercises- google up the exercise called “iron man or plank” hold it for 2 mins every day and “side stand” do this for 1 min on the left and right side every day, you will have a slimmer waistline. But learn the technique well on the net before trying it.
9. Eat a heavy breakfast and a lightest dinner, also make the dinner early. Try sticking to low calorie, fiber rich foods, than refined sugars and junk. “Moderation is the key to loose weight”.
10 Do walking or swimming 30 mins everyday apart from the strength training program.

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