BSA CareXpress Urgent Care is here with one more blog to help you stick to that new year’s resolution to lose weight. Diet is the most important aspect to losing weight, but exercise is also key to losing weight and maintaining a healthy body. But which exercises will help you lose weight in the fastest way possible? Now, it should be noted that ANY exercise is good for weight loss. But if you're curious about which ones promote weight loss the best, read on.
Interval Training: The type of exercise most experts recommend to lose weight is interval training. What’s Interval Training? Interval Training refers any kind of exercise where your heart rate spikes and then comes back down again. Generally, this means working out hard for a set amount of time and then resting letting your heart rate come down before ramping back up.
Weight Training: If Interval Training doesn’t sound like a good fit, the next best thing is weight training. Weight Training is any exercise that includes, well, weights. Either your own body weight or with weights. Weight training builds muscle and burns fat. This type of training has the added benefit of increasing your resting metabolic rate. Meaning you’ll burn more calories as you rest than if you practiced other types of exercise.
Running: The easiest one to get into, the cheapest one to start, running is an exercise you can start today. Any running will help you lose weight when it’s coupled with a proper diet. But if you really want to crank up the weight loss, you need to find a hill. Running up a hill will work the glutes and legs. Two of the largest muscle groups in your body.
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