Most people realize by now, that working out to add lean muscle mass to your body increases not only your metabolism, but also you will have an increase in fat loss and you will become a fat burning machine.  When you live your life in a very healthy way you will enjoy many other benefits.  For the Fat Burning Machine method we are going to look at how you can use intensity, volume and frequency and progression to lose weight and keep it off forever.

Most people that I see exercising at the fitness studio that are doing weight training or resistance training are using too much of their time with the exercise but not working hard enough.  You will only burn a small amount of fat with a low intensity workout.

The key elements to train for lean muscle and strength is the proper application of three vital elements.

I have found a secret and it is this, to gain lean muscle and strength requires the proper application of the three vital elements and these are often ignored by those who try it.  These three elements are:

     1.   Intensity

     2.   Volume & Frequency

     3.   Progression

The intensity is how hard it is to perform for you, given your current physical condition.  The volume and frequency are how much weight you use and how often you perform the exercise. The progression is determined by how much the demands go up from workout to workout. With these 3 key elements you will develop into a fat burning machine.  The Fat Burning Machine system will take you from beginning to lose weight to learning how to keep the weight off permanently.

A key point in burning fat is that your do not exercise for too long or workout too many times a week.

There are two forms of exercise that are completely different and they are fat burning aerobic and anaerobic exercise. In fact, they are complete opposites.

Typically Aerobic exercise is defined by low to moderate intensity, high volume and frequency, and little progression. Anaerobic exercise, or weight training, must be performed at a high intensity, lower volume and lower frequency, and with progression to be as effective as possible. The one sure way to become a fat burning machine is through an anaerobic workout.

You will not increase your strength or your muscle building more than a few short weeks if you are only performing weight training at a low or moderate intensity level.

There are a combination of two goals and that is to use sufficient intensity along with an increase in the number of reps of a weight training exercise or the amount of weight used in each and every workout. Using these steps your body will become the ultimate fat burning machine!

You will want to maximize your workout and minimize the time you spend in the gym when your are creating an effective and efficient exercise routine and remember the other details.  Why?The workout is perhaps not as important as the rest period that follows.You’re not going to get stronger or more muscular if you don’t have sufficient rest and adequate sleep.

You see, when you strength train properly, you are creating tiny injuries to your muscles. When you allow your body to restore itself, it will overcompensate and increase the amount of muscle that you have. 

 If you workout again before that process is completed, you’ll experience lackluster results, if any, muscle building or fat burning results. Your muscles will not respond to your workout if you stress them to the failure point.

So make sure to get proper rest between workouts, which typically means a minimum of 1 to 3 full days of rest between properly executed resistance workouts.

Now upon hearing the idea that you’ve got to add muscle to your body to ensure that you will become the maximum fat burning machine, a lot of people, women especially, start thinking, “But I don’t want to get bigger, I want to lose weight!” 

But this is such a shame, because it’s very unlikely to happen, and countless women are losing out on these fat burning benefits because of it. 

You see, most men and almost all women simply lack the necessary genetic traits required to produce such muscle gains that would cause them to look bulky or overly developed to most people. Among these traits are muscle fiber makeup, testosterone levels, muscle belly length, and other traits.

The bodybuilders that you see on TV and in the magazines are competing and are the genetic cream of the crop for muscle development and also they are usually on large doses of anabolic steroids, growth hormones and other bodybuilding drugs. 

 Don’t be fooled by these images, or those that scare you into thinking this way. Did you know that lean muscle takes up less space on your body and is more compact than fat, and because of this you will in actuality be getting smaller.

It really doesn't matter who you are, if you properly perform intense resistance training you will put yourself in an excellent position to excel in your loss of fat and you will achieve your fitness goals.

But make sure you understand and apply the three critical Fat Burning Machine principles I discussed above.   

Here they are again:  Intensity, Volume and Frequency and Progression.

If you don’t follow these three principles you’ll ultimately be unhappy with your results, both in your ability to burn fat and realize the lean, strong, and healthy body you deserve.

 

 


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