To become a fat burning machine and increase your fat loss, most people know, that you need to increase your metabolism by working out and adding lean muscle mass to your body. There will also be many other benefits that will allow you to live your life in a very healthy way. For the Fat Burning Machine method we are going to look at how you can use intensity, volume and frequency and progression to lose weight and keep it off forever.
Most people that I see exercising at the fitness studio that are doing weight training or resistance training are using too much of their time with the exercise but not working hard enough. You will only burn a small amount of fat with a low intensity workout.
The key elements to train for lean muscle and strength is the proper application of three vital elements.
The secret I’ve found is that the proper application of the three vital elements are are required in training for lean muscle and strength and this secret is often overlooked by the people who try it. These three elements are:
1. Intensity
2. Volume & Frequency
3. Progression
The intensity is how hard it is to perform for you, given your current physical condition.The volume and frequency are determined by how many times you perform the exercise and how much weight you use. The progression is related to how much the demands increase from workout to workout. You will become a fat burning machine with these 3 key elements. The Fat Burning Machine system will take you from beginning to lose weight to learning how to keep the weight off permanently.
It is very important that you do not workout for too long or schedule your workouts for too many times per week.
Two entirely different forms of exercise are fat burning aerobic and anaerobic exercise. They are really the total opposite.
The definition of Aerobic exercise is high volume and frequency, low to moderate intensity, and not much progression. Anaerobic exercise, or weight training, must be done with high intensity, lower weight and less frequently and also with metered progression to be effective. An Anaerobic exercise is the only way you will become a fat burning machine.
You will not increase your strength or your muscle building more than a few short weeks if you are only performing weight training at a low or moderate intensity level.
The goal is simply the combination of sufficient intensity, coupled with increasing either the number of repetitions of a weight training exercise or the amount of weight used each and every workout. Using these steps your body will become the ultimate fat burning machine!
When you are creating an effective and efficient workout routine for maximizing your workout and minimizing the time spent in the gym remember to pay attention to the details. Why?The resting time that follows is even more important that the workout is.When you get adequate rest and enough sleep you will become stronger and increase your muscles.
When you strength train in the proper way you are causing small injuries to your muscles. When you allow your body to restore itself, it will overcompensate and increase the amount of muscle that you have.
If you workout again before that process is completed, you’ll experience lackluster results, if any, muscle building or fat burning results. You will also be overworking your muscles to the point where they will not respond to your workout.
Typically you need a minimum of one to three full days of rest between well executed resistance workouts, so be sure you get this amount of rest.
Now upon hearing the idea that you’ve got to add muscle to your body to ensure that you will become the maximum fat burning machine, a lot of people, women especially, start thinking, “But I don’t want to get bigger, I want to lose weight!”
But this is such a shame, because it’s very unlikely to happen, and countless women are losing out on these fat burning benefits because of it.
You see, most men and almost all women just lack the necessary genetic makeup that is needed to produce the muscle gain that would cause them to look bulky or even overly muscular to most people. Muscle fiber makeup, muscle belly length, testosterone levels are some of these traits.
Those competitive bodybuilders you’ve seen on TV and in the magazines are the genetic cream of the crop for muscle development and they are typically on heavy doses of anabolic steroids, growth hormone, and other bodybuilding drugs.
Don’t be fooled by these images, or those that scare you into thinking this way. Did you know that lean muscle takes up less space on your body and is more compact than fat, and because of this you will in actuality be getting smaller.
It really doesn’t matter who you are, if you properly perform intense resistance training you will put yourself in the best position to excel in your loss of fat and you will achieve your fitness goals.
But make sure you understand and apply the three critical Fat Burning Machine principles I discussed above.
Here they are again: Intensity, Volume and Frequency and Progression.
If you don’t follow these three principles you’ll ultimately be unhappy with your results, both in your ability to burn fat and realize the lean, strong, and healthy body you deserve.