Revealed: The Top Two Workouts For Weight Loss!

Help me lose weight! For decades now everyone from scientists to the man in the street have been trying to figure out the best workouts for weight loss and the best ab exercisesfor getting slim. The two exercises have proven despite a good deal of debate and controversy to be the top two exercises for weight loss. Here they are, the two best workouts for weight loss revealed:

On a treadmill jog for three minutes at an easy pace as a warm up, then increase the speed to a pace at which you find very demanding (about 90% of full effort) and try to maintain this for one minute. After one minute reduce the pace to that of around 50% of your maximal effort level for another minute, following this do another minute at the 90% effort. Keep doing this cycle again and again for a period of at least twenty minutes. you are likely to find this training session very tough however the boost to your metabolism and general health is going to be wel worth it.

1) Interval training for weight loss. For a a good few years experts claimed that taking part in some form of continuous activity such as running was the optimum way to burn belly fat. However more recent investigation have shown this not to be true and that gains from just doing 20 minutes of interval training alone get much better results as regards burning belly fat. Interval training involves short bursts of intense activity followed by brief rest periods. An example interval training session would be as follows:

2) Squatting. This is primarily a weight training exercise but as recent science has proven weight training is very effective in aiding weight loss. First of all the more muscle you have the more calories you burn even at rest as muscle tissue requires more energy than other types of tissue to maintain throughout the day. secondly, strength training not only burns up calories but also give your metabolism a real risk that will see it running fast for hours afterwards.

Why in particular the squat? The squat exercise requires you to make use of all of the major muscle groups of the body and can be devastatingly tough. Your abs are used to maintain stability as are many of the muscles in the upper body, whilst the legs are obviously performing a very dynamic movement. The squat has the effect of making the body inject into the blodd stream highly potent muscle building and weight loss homrnes as the squat is such a stressful exercise.

In fact one of the best workouts for weight loss would be a twenty minute interval training session followed by a few sets of squats. That would be an extremely effective mixture indeed. Now armed with your new knowledge go and shed some belly fat!