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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Workouts To Burn Fat: Critical Tips for Muscle Gain

By Brad Morgan

When you are busy taking care of children, working, going to school, or anything else our busy world demands, trying to burn fat doesn't always fit neatly into your schedule.

An alternative many people turn to is short workouts. Do three or four ten minute workouts produce the same effects as one long one?

You often hear that it takes the body about twenty minutes to start burning serious calories and fat, so wouldn't that make shorter workouts ineffective? What is the best way to burn fat on a tight schedule?

According to the American Heart Association, you can receive the same benefit from several shorter workouts as you do from one long one. This is true if they add up to the same amount of time.

This means that if you do four ten minute workouts, you are doing the same great things for your body that a single forty minute workout can do. To make it even more effective, the AHA recommends that you make these short workouts as intense as possible.

If you are going to try short workouts, they need to be difficult in order to burn fat. The following tips can help you challenge your body:

1. Run like the wind.

For ten minutes, run faster than you normally do. Walkers, walk more briskly. Make sure to get your heart going.

2. Do a gym machine for ten minutes.

If you are at the gym or have equipment at home, jump on and exercise extremely rigorously for ten minutes.

3. Run up a hill or a set of stairs.

Then walk back down and repeat until you hit ten minutes.

4. Jumping Jacks: you'll feel like you're in gym class again!

5. Jump rope.

Any movement is a potential mini workout. The key is to make sure it is intense enough so your body works and so you burn fat. Adding some weights to your routine also helps.

Don't let your body get bored; if you do, it is harder to burn fat. Do a few minutes of light walking to warm up, and then do some of the moves below:

* Deadlifts

* Pushups

* Pushups

* Tricep dips

* Pushups

You can do sets of each or combine them to create compound moves. These work more muscle at the same time. Examples of compound moves are: squats combined with overhead presses, lunges paired with chest presses, and knee lifts with tricep kickbacks.

Even short workouts need warm up and cool down periods, but they can be as simple as walking. Walk briskly for a few minutes to warm up, and walk at a slower pace to cool down. Stretching is also important so you don't strain your muscles.

Exercise only works if you do it. Fitting in four or so ten minute workouts a day is effective. You will get in shape, burn fat, and have time to spare!

Working out for shorter periods of time can also be much more motivating and can help you stick with your exercise program.

Doing a forty minute workout can be a hardship when you have a busy schedule. But ten minutes is manageable for everyone. - 17274

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