The Classic Standing Barbell Biceps Curl

You notice that suddenly you are having more and more trouble getting into your favorite pair of jeans.  It’s the waist.  The waist just won’t buckle.  You take a deep breathe, suck in your gut, lie on your back, and quickly fasten the button.  Wait.  Who are we kidding?  It’s time.  It’s time to get serious about a weight loss program.  But what is it that the average persons does?

Why Most People Fail When It Comes To Losing Weight

They usually think two things, both which are guaranteed to fail far short of what you are expecting it to do.

1) Diet

2) Exercise by Just Jogging.

Why Diets Don’t Work

The reason why diets don’t work is because they are only a temporary drastic change in normal, natural, healthy eating by means of sudden calorie reduction by eating less often.  As soon as you get off of the diet, you will tend to binge and thus go back to your former fat self.  Better is the regime of eating 5 to 6 frequent and balance meals of about 600 calories per meal where you never get hungry and you circumvent the tendency and temptation to snack.

Why Just Jogging (or Any Excessive Aerobic Exercise) Is Not The Best Way To Burn Fat

Too much jogging (or any excessive aerobic exercise ) burns up fat and breaks down muscle tissue, thus over time, this type of activity over time slows down your  fat burning metabolism triggering your body to store fat all over your body, creating the phenomenon of the “skinny fat person”.  This is the person who looks okay with his or her clothes on, but once he or she takes them off, you can see rolls of fat around the waist, thighs and rear.  You just become a slightly smaller version of your former self.  If you are a pear-shape, you just become a smaller shaped pear.  Your are slightly smaller, but you still look chubby.  (Can anybody say Richard S – I – M – M – O – N – S .)

More Muscle Means A Faster Fat Burning Metabolism

Few people know this but the more lean muscle that you develop the faster you burn fat.  Muscle is the most fat burning metabolically efficient tissue in the body.

The Bigger Your Muscles The More Fat You Will Burn While Resting

The key type of exercise that I am recommending, and the fastest and most efficient way to a shapely and well-sculptured body is through progressive weight resistance using barbells and dumbbells for at least 30 minutes a day, for four times a weeks, interspersed with 20 to 30 minutes of jogging or aerobic activity on the other 3 days of the week.  After a 30 minute workout with weights, your body is burning fat for up to 10 hours afterward, and in some cases more, after you have finished exercising.  This means that you will be burning fat even later while you are sitting on the sofa watching television.

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Yours in health,

Charles Prosper

“The 12-Week Fitness Guru”