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Cross training is the integration of multiple disciplines or exercises into a single exercise routine. Many people know and accept the fact that exercise is needed for good health. Fat loss is maximized by your healthy diet, the exercise program you’ve chosen and the consistency of your actions in both your diet and exercise programs. The reasons for incorporating cross training into your exercise routine vary from person to person but two of them are to relieve boredom and another is to maximize the benefits of exercising.
Resistance (strength) training is important because strong and healthy muscles burn more calories when exercised properly. Strong and healthy muscles are also important in many of your daily activities. Some of the activities that require strength are carrying groceries, children, laundry, walking and good posture. Combine resistance training with a diet that provides fewer calories than you burn with your activities and your body will get the energy it needs by burning fat.
Adding cardio workouts to your exercise program lets you benefit in multiple ways.
1. You will be using different muscle groups than you do while doing your resistance training. Resting a muscle group for two days after exercising it gives the muscles time to both rest and grow. (Your muscles, rest, heal and grow during the downtime after you exercise them.)
2. Adding rowing, cycling, walking, jogging or some other discipline to your exercise program gives you variety so you will be more likely to stick with your exercise program to achieve your fat loss and health goals.
3. By using strength training every other day and focusing on different muscle groups, you are maximizing your efforts. When you add cardio training on the off days of your strength training, you are building up your heart muscle strength, lungs and increasing your blood flow which will help with your strength training.
Reserve the seventh day for rest so your body can return to its normal resting state. This gives your mind, body and nerves a chance to relax and heal or grow.
Make a lifelong commitment to cross training and eating healthy and you’ll be rewarded with a longer and healthier life
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Diets do not work BUT many people think a change of life style equals you on a diet. This article discusses how you can turn that belief into success.
I’m betting you’ve tried one or more diets in your life and as soon as you quit the diet you gained back what you’d lost and more. There is a very good reason for this.
Your diet probably reduced your caloric intake by 50 percent or more. Your body saw this drastic food intake reduction as starvation and stored part of everything you ate as fat and burned the lean muscle tissue in your body for energy.
As soon as you started eating at your previous levels, you started rebuilding your muscle mass and that plus the increased fat you gained during your diet pushed your weight higher.
This means fat loss cannot equal you on a diet.
The correct path would have been to reduce your calorie intake by no more than 20 percent and to increase your level of exercise. (I heard that groan.)
What you may not know is even minimal exercise, when done properly and consistently, helps increase your metabolism and active muscles burn fat when the calorie intake has been even slightly lowered.
Modestly reducing the calorie intake plus increased exercise is a double whammy that forces your body to burn fat. Fat loss is your undeclared goal anyway.
Ignore your scale while eating less and exercising more because lean muscle weighs more than the fat you are losing.
An additional benefit to those that choose an aggressive resistance training program is your muscles become healthier and their cellular age may more closely resemble the muscle health of a young adult.
Good nutrition through diet, vitamin and mineral supplements, increased water consumption, cardio workouts and resistance (strength) training will equal the fat loss you are seeking.
Most of us don’t understand good nutrition, portion control, eating 5-6 meals a day, what exercises to do, when to exercise and where all of this information can be found. I recommend you check out the NutriSystems Advanced program because they offer not only the foods in the right portions but counseling, support, a DVD on exercising and more so you on a diet can equal a successful lifestyle change.
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