Ever notice how people at the gym tend to head straight for the treadmills and other cardio machines in order to lose weight? They walk and walk and even run forever and never reach their final destination. Well, I'm going to give you a real exercise routine that achieves your goals and in a lot less time. But, first let's understand what we are trying to achieve.
To lose a single pound of fat you must expend 3,500 calories of energy. This is a pretty daunting task when you consider that the average person only burns 2,000 calories in an average day and that most of us are more than one pound overweight. Cardio exercises are alright for losing weight if you want to do it very slowly. If I spend an hour on the Stairmaster I'm only burning about 500 calories. This means that if I want to lose a single pound of fat I've got about 6 more hours walking upstairs to nowhere.
Fortunately there is a significantly better way to maximize weight loss and it is lifting weights. Yes, in a half hour of doing cardio exercises you will lose more than a half hour of lifting weights. But, the benefits of lifting weights are broader reaching. You see, muscle actually burns fat because it weighs more and causes the body to work harder throughout the day.
But, if you do multi joint exercises that work numerous muscle groups at once you will actually exert such effort that your body goes into a metabolic shock and burns calories at a higher rate for days on end.
The exercises you need to do are: bench press, dead lift, clean and jerk, pull ups, chin ups, squats and others.
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