Workouts

When you need to give your metabolism a much needed boost to burn off those extra calories, try out one of these five trusted methods of turning the heat up on your calorie burning power.

1. Exercise More

   According to Gary Miller, Ph.D., an associate professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest University, exercising more often can help to spike your metabolism. “It’s not a huge spike, but it makes a difference,” he says in an interview with Cooking Light magazine. To maximize your weight loss potential, try exercising before eating.

2. Work Out with Weights

   During weight training, muscle tissue is stressed then repaired, causing a bodily reaction that boosts metabolism. To maximize your fitness levels, try using Strength Training Workouts coupled with weight lifting.

3. Practice Portion Control

   Eating large amounts of food overloads your metabolism with a surplus of unusable energy. Use a food scale or measuring cups to identify the right size of your favorite foods.

4. Eat Smaller Meals Often

   Some experts recommend eating smaller meals throughout the day, known as grazing. “Grazing helps normalize blood sugar levels rather than producing three large spikes, which is what happens eating three meals a day,” says Nick Flynn, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry at Angelo State University.

5. Laugh!

   When researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, put people into a “metabolic chamber” (a small room that measures heat output in order to calculate a person’s metabolic rate) and showed them funny videos, the subjects’ metabolic rates rose by 10 to 40 calories.

Lift three times a week.
Two will offer some benefits, and one is better than nothing but isn’t going to do much good. By contrast, more than three is not likely to give you enough time to recover in between workouts, which is when the strengthening of your muscles is happening. (Government recommendations for heart health include 30 minutes of the equivalent of brisk walking most days, so you might want to add a few days of that to this routine—it’s not going to interfere with recovery from the weights.)

Focus your attention on the body as a whole.

Alwyn Cosgrove, a coach, gym owner, and writer says machines that isolate the calf, biceps, and tricepts aren’t going to do much good. “Muscles are like a web and work as a system,” he says. “They’re designed to work together.” Doing exercises like presses, rows, and pulldowns lets those little muscles work the way they’re supposed to: in concert with the bigger ones. In addition, make sure you’re taking care of your body as a whole by stretching, maintaining a proper diet, getting enough sleep, and keeping hydrated.

Use a weights and intervals program.

Cosgrove says a weightlifting program coupled with intervals—alternating high-intensity bursts of riding a stationary bike or running with a recovery period—is preferable to plodding along at the same slow pace. “When it comes to fat loss and enhancing the way you look, time is the limiting factor,” he says. Change up your routine to the get best results possible. Alternate using a Dip Machine with jogging, or focus on various muscle groups in exercises in different speeds and intensities.

In the quest for physical well being, it is imperative that we get the right amount of exercise. Furthermore, we should also consider the quality of that exercise. The more muscle groups we work, the better of we’ll be, and that’s where the Ultimate Body Press comes in. If you’re looking for a well-rounded workout, you needn’t do so any longer.

While the Ultimate Body Press is a simple-looking piece of equipment, the benefits it offers are massive. With each exercise, you’ll work multiple muscle groups, greatly facilitating your daily workout. Ideally, we want to get the exercise we need in the shortest amount of time, and with the Ultimate Body Press, this dream can come true. Workouts can last as little as ten minutes, but they will give you a metabolic boost that lasts for hours.

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