How To Lose Weight Faster And Make The Most Out Of Your Workout Sessions (3 of 4)

Work, work work!

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When you do your workout routine, make sure to follow it religiously. Don’t just claim to do so, actually do it. Just sailing through the regime won’t work.

Increase the intensity, shoot your heartbeat to 120-130 times per minute. That’s the only way how you can expect to see visible results. You can treadmill at 2.5 miles per hour scrolling through your Instagram or maybe ride the cross trainer for 20 minutes, watching a Friends episode alongside and I promise you, none of it shall work. The more you intensify your workout, the harder your body works to bring itself back to equilibrium and the faster your heart pumps all the blood.

So even if you’re performing your session for thirty minutes, do it religiously and hard enough to find yourself lying fatigued on the floor at the end. Don’t just do the exercises for the sake of doing them.

 

 

You Can Never Trust Technology

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The upcoming sentence might make you feel that you’ve been living under a rock, but sadly, it’s true. You cannot trust the numbers that cardio machines display that tells you how many calories you’ve lost.

In reality, at times you tend to lose a lot lesser than what is displayed. Looking at those staggering numbers into that little black screen and calling it a day is not a very good idea. Try using a fitness app that tracks and evaluates your output, they give a much more appropriate (though approximate) figure than the cardio machines ever will.

Or rather, just keep working out till you’re exhausted. Trust meters and miles more than calories, you can never go wrong this way.

 

 

Allocate, Alternate, Act

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While focusing on every muscle and engaging each one of them is necessary, it’s not possible to do it all at once, every day, for god knows how many months or years. It can become tiring or monotonous and we don’t want that.

Make groups, and each group should have a set of muscles as their aim to be worked upon. Keeping those muscles in mind, ask your trainer (or if you do it at home, google it) to assign a set of exercises that are necessary to perform. Keep switching between groups every day, periodically, and perform the said activities.

This way your routine stays spicy and your mind anything but lethargic. Allocate exercises, alternate them, and act!

 

 

Move every muscle

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Every muscle of your body is important. You might have a dream to flex your biceps and triceps in front of the mirror before leaving for work every morning, but that is certainly not possible with weak obliques or glutes. Point being, to flex those brawny muscles, your whole body needs to be toned.

Whenever we workout, half of the fat tends to get used up in the form of energy and the leftover strengthens into muscles. This is the reason why engaging your muscle is so important- not only does the process burns fat, but it also tightens the loose skin all over your body.

To achieve that, you have to make sure to engage every muscle during your workout. Design your workout regime in such a way that it hits and strengthens every nook and corner of your body.

 

 

Incorporate core exercises as much as you can

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You strengthen your core; you’ve pretty much strengthened everything.

Core exercises have this unique feature of engaging the maximum number of your body’s muscles. When you do planks, automatically your abdomen, back, and shoulders are struggling to help you hold your position steady. Or when you do dead bugs, you’ll suddenly find your obliques, hips, lower back, and abdomen working it through.

Core exercises are best for building abs, but hey- we all know we can’t have abs until we lose those layers of extra fat all over our body. So, if core exercises are proven to develop them, they must surely be designed such that they help you lose those extra layers of fat too!

They are the toughest to perform, but that disadvantage falls short when you look at its perks instead. Try to incorporate more of them in your daily regime, they help.