May 9th, 2010 | 
Author: In this article I will share 9 easy exercise tips for losing weight.
If you follow these tips, you will get the results you want from your exercise regimen.
If you have any health conditions, talk with your doctor before you begin an exercise program.
Exercise Tip #1 – Take It Easy
If you’re new to exercise you should ease into it. Your body will make you pay for doing too much too fast won’t let you slide for doing too much too fast won’t forgive you for moving too fast.
Some soreness is bound to happen. Extreme soreness is avoidable.
You don’t want to go too easy, but you don’t want to go all out at first.
Exercise Tip #2 – Be Consistent
You can see very good results by exercising 5 days minimum week after week. Your results will be much slower if you habitually miss workouts.
Being consistent is the single most important tip I can offer you.
Exercise Tip #3 – Put In Some Work
After an initial 3 week break-in period when you first start working out, you need to ramp up your intensity.
There is no need to try to kill yourself, but you do need to give it some effort.
Give a mediocre effort, you get mediocre results.
Exercise Tip #4 – Lift Some Weights
In most health clubs the cardio equipment area is usually the most crowded. Weight training is often the missing part in most exercise programs.
Resistance training burns calories, builds muscle and elevates your metabolism.
By building muscle you burn more calories whether you’re moving or dormant(ip).
Exercise Tip #5 – Lift Free Weights
Free weights are far better than machines for building muscle tissue and improving your strength.
The reason is because when you lift or move objects in your daily life, those objects aren’t usually fixed to a machine right?
When you lift free weights, you use your muscles in the same way you naturally use them in your day to day life. You work more muscle fibers, burn more calories and build muscle faster.
Exercise Tip #6 – Add Supersets
If you have some prior weight training experience, introduce supersets into your program. When you superset you do at least two weight training exercises back to back with little or no rest in between.
This keeps your heart rate elevated and gives you a cardio workout while you’re working your muscles. Supersets burn lots of calories and can help you lose fat quickly.
Exercise Tip #7 – Do Some Intervals
Most people do steady state cardio at a moderate intensity level. They usually get on a treadmill, an elliptical machine or stationary bike for 30 minutes or more and keep their heart rate within a certain zone.
Interval training can help you burn fat fast!
Basically what you do is mix moderate intensity periods with short high intensity bursts. Repeat that cycle about 6 to 10 times or so.
Here’s an example of an interval workout:
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- 5 minute brisk walk to warm up
- 2 minute run
- 30 second hard run
- 2 minute run
- 30 second hard run
Repeat that cycle until the workout time is up.
There are an inexhaustible number of ways to customize an interval workout.
It doesn’t matter if you’re using a treadmill or a stationary bike… You can do an interval style workout.
Interval training burns lots of calories in a very short period of time. A good or 30 minute interval session done right can burn more total calories than a workout 2 or 3 times longer.
Be careful when you first start doing interval workouts. If you go all out from the beginning you risk injury. At the very least you’ll be very, very sore for days.
Exercise Tip #8 – Have A Little Fun!
You can go skating, play Wii Fit, play basketball… All those activities burn calories. Go dance once a week – that’s great exercise!
Exercise doesn’t have to be boring!
Exercise Tip #9 – Measure Body Fat
An effective exercise routine will make you burn fat while adding or maintaining muscle. This means you won’t drop a bunch of pounds consistently.
If “pounds lost” is your barometer for success, you will be demoralized if the numbers don’t drop fast enough. Then you’ll stop exercising.
Don’t toss your scale, but use a tape measure and body fat measurements to assess your progress.
I hope you enjoyed these exercise tips for losing weight. Have a plan, know what you’re doing and stay consistent.
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One Response to “Exercise Tips For Faster Weight Loss”
I recently lost over 60lbs and went from size 42 waist to a 34. Exercise was a huge factor, but I would have to say what we eat and when is a more crucial factor. I try to eat 5-6 smaller protein-rich meals with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Also, I eat my biggest meal of the day in the morning and taper off with subsequent ones throughout the day. This helps get the metabolism going and keeps the appetite under control. Obese people often eat less than I do, except they skip breakfast, chug sugary sodas all day, snack on greasy carb-laden junk food and then gorge before dinner and up until bedtime. By doing that, you are essentially telling your body to store fats and metabolize foods at a slower rate.