What Is The Fastest Way To Burn Calories?
Perhaps the question I hear asked the most is, “How do I burn calories fast.” While it would be great to give you a definite answer to this question I’m afraid there is no super fast way to burn a load of calories, it takes time.
But don’t be put off and leave despondent, here are some ways to increase your calorie burning efforts…
1 – To burn the most calories in any type of exercise you need to use exercises that use the quadriceps muscle, that big muscle at the top of the thigh. Due to the size of this muscle, any exercise that involves them burns up a lot of calories.
To get these muscles working you should include exercises like squats, deadlifts, presses, lunges, sprinting, snatches into your workout to burn as much as you can. Or if the gym isn’t for you, get on your bike and get busy. Try to include as many up hill/inclines as you can, or select a gear that you find hard to push, this can also work get those large muscles working.
2 – One intense hour of rowing can yield anywhere from 800 – 1000 calories burned as this works the back muscles and chest. While not as big as the leg muscles they are the second large muscle group of the body.
3 – Jumping rope at a vigorous rate can get this high as well; however, it is much more demanding on your knees and ankles. This might not be ideal if you suffer from weight problems.
4 – High intensity interval training is also claimed to raise the amount of calories you burn. Here’s an example sprint for 45 seconds. Walk for 2 minutes, sprint for 45 seconds, walk for 2 minutes. Repeat this five times. If you do want a bit of variety you can do the same on an elliptical machine/cycling machine. The goal is to absolutely hit the wall and then recover and then do it over. This training can be grueling, but you can reduce your length of time you have to exercise for to shorter amounts and still get the same results.
5 – Swimming is also a great exercise for high calorie burning, because it exercises every part of the body, your legs, arms, lungs, etc. Plus, but you’re exercising in water rather than air, the added resistance really adds to burning calories because you are constantly trying to maintain balance in the water and keeping afloat.
While it’s important to know how to increase your calorie burning its equally important to know your “Basal Metabolic Rate”, this simply tells you how many calories you burn a day. A lot of people talk about burning calories but don’t realize how many calories they should be eating daily.
You can use the BMR calculator over in the right hand column to work out yours now. Now that you have this number you’ll now know the limit you can safely eat each day to maintain your health without putting weight on.
While it might sound simple if you don’t overeat in the calories department you won’t have to burn them off later through sweat and tears.
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