With your busy schedule and having more responsibilities than ever, you may wonder how could you possibly have enough time to work out in the gym and still have a healthy body that looks great.
Maybe your goal is not to be the next Mr or Mrs Universe, but you probably want to feel more comfortable in your clothes, have more energy, and overall just feel good about yourself.
You may think that you need to spend two to three hours per day in the gym to achieve all of those goals. Well, the good news is you can have more energy, fit better in your clothes, and feel better about yourself with workouts that are less than sixty minutes per day.
If you want to really maximize your calorie burn when you go to the gym, then I want you to focus on working your larger muscle groups. What I mean by this is, working out your legs, chest, and back.
You do not have to work all three of those in a workout, unless you really want to challenge yourself. But choose one of those muscle groups, such as legs, in a day, and focus on doing compound movements.
Compound movements for your legs would be exercises such as squats, step ups, lunges, and leg presses. If you are trying to burn the most calories in less time, then I would avoid doing isolation exercises and focus more on the compound movements.
The next question you may have is regarding cardio. Where does it come into play with this? My response to you is, you should do cardio after you do your weights and then, if you are going for maximum calorie burn, do interval training.
Interval training involves doing something with high intensity for a specified amount of time followed by rest. For example, sprint on the treadmill for thirty seconds and then walk on the treadmill for thirty seconds and repeat for twenty minutes.
You could easily get away with working out in forty five minutes (20 minutes weights/25 minutes cardio) and still get great results. Try it out and let me know how it works for you.
Those are some quick tips to follow when you are trying to burn more calories in less time. Hope those tips helped. The important thing is to keep moving periodically throughout the day and get your workouts in on a regular basis.
Contact me at greg@fiture.co. You can also visit my website at http://www.fiture.co I welcome comments and questions. I'd love to hear from you.
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