High Intensity Resistance Training - Best Fat Burning Exercise

Our entire body - every cell of it - needs energy. We are constantly burning either fat or carbohydrates depending on what we are doing. Just sitting at your computer reading this you are burning up energy, perhaps not as much as you would like, but you are burning energy nonetheless. It's not rocket science that if you were to get up from your computer and start running you will burn more energy than sitting reading. Let's suggest we are looking for the best fat burning exercise because we really want to lose fat. What factors are involved?

We all know that our bodies are complex. The whole process of digestion of our food and the burning of fat is not a simple process. How does the body turn proteins, carbohydrates and fats into cell building blocks and cell energy? Let's keep it simple, we are looking at fat burning only.

Burning Fat in our Muscles
Firstly the best fat burning exercise will involve our muscles. No other cells in the body burn as much energy as our muscles. The main energy sources are fat and carbohydrates. Both are broken down to supply calories as energy for the body. Depending on what you are doing the proportion of fat to carbohydrates will change. Carbohydrates are able to supply energy much quicker than fat. If you are sitting reading this article you will be burning roughly 50 percent fat and 50 percent carbohydrates, probably just a little more fat, anything up to 60 percent. Now start running. You immediately need a burst of energy and you will start burning more carbohydrates anything up to 70 percent. If you continue running for 15 to 20 minutes the body will want to preserve your available carbohydrates (since less are available), and the body will shift it's processes back to burning more fat up to the 60 percent level again. Use this knowledge to burn fat. For instance a low intensity exercise will burn more fat, but of course less calories than a higher intensity exercise for the same amount of time.

Resting Metabolic Rate
Obviously high intensity exercises burn more calories in a shorter amount of time. However as we plan our routine for the best fat burning exercise we need to keep in mind an additional factor - the resting metabolic rate. It's a little like your car engine, it takes time for the engine to cool. This is not a good example since your car engine is not burning energy while it is cooling down. But your muscles can be exercised to the point where they will burn energy for a period of up to 70 hours while they cool down, this is known as the resting metabolic rate or RMR. This is one of the factors not always taken into account by trainers in our gyms. Many of the clients in the gym do burn calories, but they do not exercise their muscles to the point where they raise their RMR enough to burn calories while they are resting.

High intensity resistance training
High intensity resistance training will raise your resting metabolic rate. This is the best fat burning exercise anyone can do. To be burning fat while you are at rest is the dream of anyone wanting to lose fat and this is possible given the right exercise routine. Unfortunately many gyms and their trainers just do not appreciate this fact. Not only does this form of exercise burn fat but you can achieve outstanding cardiovascular health as well.

What is not always understood is that high intensity resistance training involves taking the exercise you are doing to "momentary muscular failure", that is you simply cannot complete 1 more repetition.

What is also important is that a period of rest is just as essential as the exercise. The muscle needs time to grow and repair. This being the case an exercise requiring only 2 or at the most 3 routines a week is all that is necessary, and a full body workout should be able to be completed in 15 to 20 minutes.

Are we looking at the best fat burning exercise? Without a doubt there is probably no better routine available.

We are sure this position will not be accepted in many gyms and weight loss centers around the world. However many have found the high resistance training to be very effective in burning fat and losing weight. To explore this issue further and to obtain a routine that involves a full body workout visit my website below.

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