Exercies for weight loss?

Question

What exercise really seems to cut weight. Not a fast one, but cuts off a large amount of fat.

Answer 1

Exercises that burn lots of calories. Running, swimming, weight lifting, etc. Here are some ideas.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

You can do walking first then running. If you can go to the gym do some weight training to enhance your weightloss.

If you need to loose a lot of fat you need to balance cardio excercise and weight training. Making your muscles work will help you loose more fat because it needs more fuel to work your muscles.

Try to look for a workout buddy. This will help you be motivated to workout.

Drink lots of water and eat sensibly.

Good day!

Answer 3

Just run! To loose weight u should do a lot of cardio. But you have to make sure and eat good, if you dont get well then u wont loose weight. Food has 65% to do with loosing weight.

Answer 4

Different things work for different people.
However, excersises like squats target a large muscle area and burn a lot of calories. I do those if I'm watching TV or something.
Also, it's been proven study after study, running works. Works your whole body and gets the belly in shape. Think about runners you know-any overweight ones???

Answer 5

Personally, cardio. I saw pilates in there somewhere too, and that also works just as well. Just keep in mind that weight training is NOT the best way to lose weight. As I said before, I prefer cardio just because it helps you lose the excess pounds while helping to keep you free from heart disease, better than pilates, I think.

Answer 6

Alternate between cardio workouts and resistance workouts. Run on one day, weights the next. Cardio will burn the butter, while building muscle will boost your metabolism.

Try power lifting exercises... squats, deadlifts, presses, seated cable row, etc.
For cardio, hit the treadmill. Running is the most efficient way to burn calories. If you have joint problems (and running is murder on the joints), swim, or use an eliptical trainor.

Answer 7

The Best Exercises To Lose Weight
Exercise that pushes your heart rate closest to your targeted heart rate is the most suitable exercise to get rid of fat. You should exercise with sufficient intensity to raise your pulse rate, which in turn speeds up the fat loss process. The exercises that bring your heart rate close to your targeted heart rate will boost your metabolism, which will lead to fat loss.

Answer 8

Don t keep snacks near to your bed

Answer 9

Pilaties

Answer 10

Run for 2 hours a day.

Answer 11

The Best Cardio Exercises Explained
http://www.obesity-cure-tips.com/category/The-Best-Cardio-Exercises-Explained.html