Calories burned during exercise

If you add exercise to your diet plan as opposed to just using a weight loss plan to slim down then you will lose weight quicker and have a better chance of keeping it off long term due to the additional calories burned during exercise. This is due to the fact that exercise burns calories so the more you do and the less you eat the larger the calorie deficit each day. And this equals weight loss.

In order to benefit the most from your exercise plan you need an understanding of which exercises burn the most calories. Generally the most vigorous exercises that use most parts of the body will mean the most calories burned during exercise . Some forms of exercise will give you higher calories burned during the period of exercise. Others may provide more fat burning benefits.

Almost all exercise will build muscle giving you the added advantage of increased calories used by the body even at rest as muscle burns more calories than fat.

Calories burned

Metabolic Rate is the rate at which the body burns calories. If you consume 2000 calories a day and burns 2000 calories a day you will not lose any weight. If you create a calorie deficit you will lose weight. So if you are consuming 1500 calories daily but burning 2000 you will see some weight loss.

There are other ways apart from exercise that you can speed up metabolism. The secret of weight loss lies in knowing what  your metabolic rate is and what you can do to manipulate it.

Building  muscle is a good way of permanently increasing your metabolic rate.

How calories are burned with exercise

As well as the calories burned during exercise the added benefit of using exercise to raise metabolism rates is that exercise will in addition increase the amount of muscle in your body. For each extra pound of muscle you build, your body uses around 50 extra calories a day! Regular weight training sessions can boost basal metabolic rate by about 15%. Muscle is metabolically active and burns more calories than other body tissues even when you are still.

By  training with weights for only 3 times a week for about 20 minutes you will build muscle.

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