Fat Burning Weight Training

Without added introduction, lets get Luke Fisher's Top Fitness Tips started!

1) Drink Water. This relatively plainly commandment has untold condition benefits from habitancy of all ages. Studies show that nearly 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated, and that is a scary thought. Human beings can only go three days without water before they die. Lasting dehydration means that habitancy are within a day to two days away from dying. If that is not scary, I don't know what is. But, there is hope! It is called the faucet! midpoint habitancy should drink nearby 8 glasses of water a day, more if it is hot or they are exerting themselves more than usual. Being well hydrated has numerous condition benefits, and more studies have shown that Lasting issues such as back pain, joint pain, muscular inflammation, fatigue, grogginess, hunger pangs, and many many more can all be solved by being properly hydrated. Therefore, drinking water is the singular most important step to condition that you can do for yourself.

There are other benefits as well to drinking more water. When weight lifting, the increased water content improves muscle repair and recovery. Think of it as opening someone else lane in a highway. The nutrients enter your muscles faster, thus repairing them faster. When doing an endurance activity like hiking, biking, running, etc, the increased water not only transports energy faster, but prevents fatigue due to water loss. Water also serves to curb hunger pangs. If you get hungry and it is not time to eat yet, drink a glass of water and wait five minutes.

2) Eat six small meals a day. The reasons for this are also numerous, but I will go over the main two: Metabolism and muscle building.

Metabolism is what burns fat in your body when you are not exercising. Basically, all the things your body needs to do takes energy, and fat from food supply that energy. The efficiency that your body burns those fat for energy is your metabolism. Now, the word efficiency is deceptive when dealing with metabolism, because "efficient" for your body is burning as few fat as potential for the maximum amount of energy. This goes back to our survivalist days and the needed to get all we could out of what we ate, but nowadays we do not have the risks that old cavemen had. However, our bodies have not adapted, and so we are still stuck in survival mode, which makes many habitancy overweight. By eating six small meals a day, it tricks the body into reasoning that there is a plethora of food available (which, wow, there is! Ever seen a Safeway?) The body then leaves crisis mode and stops trying to hoard all the caloric energy we get. This results in more fat burned doing mundane things, and more fat burned while exercising. plainly changing your meals from three to six, and not changing the amount of food you eat, can set you on the path to weight loss. Cool, huh?

The second helpful thing is muscle building. While the body's metabolism is revved up by the six meals, so is the body's capacities. Construction muscle takes calories, and a lot of them, but it needs them for the entire repair process. Therefore, expanding your caloric intake slightly while eating six meals a day can give your muscles the fuel they needs to properly repair. This is especially true with weight training because the repair needed by the muscles is colossal when captivating heavy weights.

3) Do not count calories. Simple, right? But how many habitancy do it? Counting fat takes away from the main task of nutrition: fueling your body. Too many get caught up in the idea that fat in food is all that matters. But let us take a closer look at that idea. Analyze the differences in the middle of an apple and a bag of fruit snacks. They both have a similar amount of calories. But which one is healthier? If you said the fruit snacks, get out of my office. The apple is healthier because of the nutrients it gives the body, regardless of the amount of fat there are. Besides, there are these sneaky diminutive buggers called "empty calories" that will completely ruin your day if you are not careful. Imagine the fruit snacks again. What do they do for your body? Do they have any vitamins? Minerals? Fats? Protein? Carbs...aha! So they have carbs...but wait, what kind? Sugar? Yes, sugar, and processed sugar at that. "Empty calories" are fat that hold no nutritional value for your body, like those in soda, candy, and other heavily processed foods. So, why count fat if they do not count?

4) If it comes in a box, do not eat it. Seems like all these days gives you cancer. Eating meat does. Not eating meat does. The air does. Smoke does. Just being near a smoker does. (pretty soon, just reasoning about a smoker will give you brain cancer. Mark my words.) So how do we avoid this cancerous world of ours? Well, you can not, but you can slow the process for sure. The first step is, ironically, backwards. Get closer to nature, but not in the naked hippy in a tree kind of way. Just do not eat processed food. I talked about "empty calories" in #3, but it's more than that. The process of processing contains so many market chemicals that it is practically criminal. In fact, the government made a law that stated how much of the stuff associates can legally have in their food. There is pus, blood, and other bits in milk, preservatives in bread, and do not even get me started on chicken nuggets. Quick quiz: If you can uncover the "nugget" on a live chicken, I will give you 0 dollars cash.

The safest way to eat is local. Some of you might have to trust me on this, but surface the city there are these nifty places called farms. They grow stuff. Long story. Point is, these farms take their furnish to Farmer's markets, and habitancy buy level from the ground. It is much best than buying a pepper that was shipped from Mexico and coated in preservatives and pesticides. Take that, cancer!

5) Protein is good. Forget what you have heard about the dangers of protein. all is bad when taken too much, and protein is no different. Truth is, the body needs protein for important things, like Construction muscles and breaking down other minerals/vitamins (along with fat - more on that later). However, the midpoint someone needs anywhere from.75 grams to 1.5 grams of protein per lb of bodyweight, scaling according to their activity level. If you lift weights, eat more protein. If you are an athlete, eat more protein. But if you're an midpoint Joe or Jane that spends some time jogging, cycling, or doing light stuff in the gym, then you do not need 1.5 grams per lb. It is all about balance.

6) Carbs are good. Uh-oh. Every time you say that, a personal instructor at L.A. Fitness dies. Hmmm...carbsaregoodcarbsaregoodcarbsaregood. Seriously, though, carbs are the not the enemy. Processed, sugary, "empty calorie" carbs are. Good carbs, like Whole Grain bread, granola, flaxseeds, fruit, etc, are fine. They supply the body with the energy it likes to use first. The energy pyramid the metabolism uses looks like this: Carbs, Protein, Fat. Without boring you, the speculate is due to ease of break down. It is easier to break down carbs into energy than protein, and protein moreso than fat. Now, this changes when the body has to use the protein to repair muscle tissue, so if you lift a lot, it looks like this: Carbs, Fat, Protein. All the time Carbs first. So, eat the right ones, like in this article: http://www.goodcarbs.org/#what_are_good_carbs

7) Fat is good. Not to be confused with being fat. I am talking about the meta-nutrient. Fat is Required by the body to break down minerals, vitamins, and expedite the delivery of other important things like amino acids. If your body doesn't have fat, it doesn't function, period. Have you heard the buzz nearby Omega-3 Fish Oil? Well, that's fat. A fat that makes your heart healthier and prevents bone decay. Wait, what?

8) Knowledge is power. Do not take all I say to heart without properly researching it first. When it comes to nutrition, knowledge and a cynical eye are your best friends. As omnivores, we evolved to inspect our food and surroundings. Look up favorite eating habits. Try to enunciate the last three ingredients in a can of soda. Ask a farmer if he uses pesticides or herbicides. Ask the grocery store boss where the food comes from (hint: if he doesn't know, that's bad). One quiz, I All the time like to ask myself is, "Can I see this in the wild?" If the answer is no, then I ask, "Could I make it in the wild?" If I can't answer whether of these questions, I do not eat it. Our bodies are still stuck in the stone age, and until we can transform Calcium Disodium Edta or Phenylalanine into something useful, we should eat stuff from the stone age. After all, when have you ever seen a fat caveman?

Nutrition is more about a lifestyle than a fad. That is why I did not say the word "diet" in here at all. Eat healthy, live healthy. No fads about it.