According to the experts, in order to burn fat and get your metabolism up, you will need to spend a half hour or so doing moderate aerobic exercises at the gym or in the weight room. They say you will need to do this on an average of three times minimum per week. This as been the standard recommendation for fat burning by many fitness professionals for several years now.

Is this the best way?

This type of exercise can actually be counterproductive to burning fat. This type of exercise calls upon your stored body fat for energy during the sessions. While this seems like a good idea, it can actually cause your body to create more body fat in reserve after the workout is over,just to have ready for your next workout. Ouch!

By doing this your heart and lungs can actually reduce their capacity for work as they are getting more efficient at doing easy work, which reduces their ability to handle stress. You are not challenging your body to improve.

This can lead to a host of other problems including increasing a chance of heart attack. You are only working within your current aerobic capacity because you're never challenging it to go beyond what it's capable of. And anything that is easy will not yield results even close to what's challenging for the body to accomplish.

Good Things To Do:

Instead, you should challenge your body to increase its capacity, so that it is stronger and able to deal with stress more easily. The fastest and most efficient way to start up your metabolism, burn fat, and develop lasting health and fitness is to develop a strong resistance training regiment.

Resistance Training will;

*Add lean muscle to your body. Of coarse the end result we are seeking is to get stronger and build some muscle. When you start to add lean muscle to your body, your body will begin to burn fat in an efficient manner.

*Teach your body this repair and growth process and it will begin to improve itself. The repair and growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy. Combine this with calorie deficit practices that will allow you to burn fat all day long. These fat burning effects and results will continue even when you're sitting around doing nothing at all.

*Increase your heart and lung's capacity for work. By placing increased demands on your body, it is forces it to be ready for anything you throw at it. This makes you more resistant to cardiovascular health problems that plague most people...even those that exercise with aerobics frequently.

And the best part is, you don't have to spend much time working out to get these fat burning effects. You can actually get it done with 2 or 3 weekly workouts of 20 to 30 minutes each. It's easy to make this type of exercise part of your daily routine because of how efficient it is. It will help keep you lean and healthy for the rest of your life!

Muscle is the stuff that fat burning furnaces are made of! This I can promise you.