The Best Recipe For Fat Loss

From the desk of Tammy Zubasic....

We get asked this question a lot.  What is the best way to lose fat? 

Cardio, yoga, zumba, spinning, weight training? Should I be lifting heavy weight for fewer repetitions, or lifting lighter weights for more repetitions?  Should I workout everyday or every other day?

The answer (drum roll please)……...none of the above.

Research out of the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma has found that 5 exercise sessions per week done with a combination of strength training, endurance training, and interval training only resulted in 1.5 pounds of fat lost after nearly 3 months of exercise.  

That is a lot of work for only 1.5 lbs of fat lost. Now we are not trying to claim that there are no benefits to exercise – quite the contrary.  Exercise specifically strength training has the following benefits:

• Preserves muscle mass with advancing age – a key factor in independence into our senior years
• Leads to enhanced aerobic and anaerobic fitness – two other key factors in successful aging
• Creates important biochemical changes – reducing disease risk and mortality rates
•  Improves cognitive function and mood – resulting in an enhanced quality of life
• Exercise also acts as gas on the fire, which will result in greater enhanced fat loss than dieting alone. With that being said dieting alone will result in weight loss, but unfortunately this weight loss results in just a smaller version of the person you were, can you say "Skinny Fat". By incorporating strength training into your life you will get that lean sculpted body you desire.

In order, to see fat loss you must create a calorie deficit and the best way to do that is through restricting the amount of daily calories your body brings in and by exercising to burn a few more each day. That being said nutrition is 80% of your results, exercise is only 20%. You will never out exercise bad nutrition. Get your nutrition on target by using a system like dotFIT, which is what we use here at Defined Fitness, and incorporating some strength training into your weekly routine and watch the pounds roll away.

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