10 Great Ways To Burn More Fat By Charles Volcalatte At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

You have your hands full with work, school, family or any combination of the three that you absolutely have no time to work out, right? Well, you should make time. It’s important that you do and I’m here to help you. In this hectic and stressful world we live in, the more we need to set aside time to exercise. Admittedly, it does take some serious creativity to do it.

Below, I’ve put together some quick tips to get your muscles moving and blood circulating in the quickest time possible. These have been especially designed for people on the go. Now you have no excuse.
Here are my 10 fat-burning tips for people on the go:

1. When you first wake up, commit to 10 minutes of continuous exercise. Pick three exercises and do them in succession without stopping, for 10 minutes. A sample workout would be: Monday-modified push-ups, followed by abdominal crunches, then stationary lunches; Tuesday, free-standing squats with just your bodyweight, double crunches for the abs, and close grip modified push-ups for your triceps. It’s a quickie workout that you wouldn’t have a problem completing.

2. Perform timed interval walking in your neighborhood or at lunch. Add a little challenge to your walking exercise by completing certain distances in less time than your normally do. For instance, if it takes 10 minutes to walk from your home to the bus point, try to make it in eight minutes. You can do this first thing in the morning before work, or squeeze this workout during your lunch break.

3. If you have stairs in your home or in your work place, commit to taking the stairs a specific number of times. Decide how many times you will take the stairs, daily or weekly, and commit to doing it, no matter what.

4. While seated, perform some isometric exercise to help strengthen and tighten your muscles. When doing isometric exercises, all you do basically is contract or tighten a particular muscle/muscles you want to workout and hold it in the tensed position for a few seconds, then relax and start over again. A sample exercise is to contract your abdominals for 60 seconds while you are seated. Try to breathe naturally as you do this. You can do the same thing with your leg muscles. Do about three sets per area. If you do this several times a week, you will have tighter muscles in just three weeks. Here’s a video that shows you how:

5. For about $15, you can invest in a pedometer. This handy device records the number of miles you walk per day. Add a little challenge by increasing your mileage. For example, if you log in a total of one mile as you go through your daily activities on a certain day, try to bring it up to two miles the following week. It’s a little game you can play that will help you burn more calories.

6. Tired at night and just want to sit in front of the TV? It’s okay, enjoy your show but don’t be a full-time couch potato. You can take periodic five-minute breaks and do some muscle strengthening and calorie-burning exercises. For example, on your first 5-minute break, do only abdominal crunches; on your next 5-minute break, do modified push-ups; and on your last 5-minute break, perform stationary lunges. The you can up the ante, instead of doing the set number of repetitions, try to do more with each subsequent break. Because you are watching television and the workout is split over a 30-60 minute time frame, it wouldn’t be such a daunting task to complete.

7. How about performing one exercise movement per day for seven to 10 minutes? Another incremental type of workout that is quick, simple and teaches consistency doing only one exercise a day for 7-10 minutes. For example, Monday—free-standing squats, Tuesday—b ench dips, Wednesday—crunches and hip lifts off the floor, Thursday—modified push-ups, Friday—stationary lunges.

8. Want things even simpler? Every time you have to walk somewhere, take the longest route, or you can even walk instead of drive if the distance is short enough.

9. Double-up the stairs. Every time you take the stairs, simply take a double step, or every other stair. The action mimics both lunges and the Stairmaster movement combined. It’s a terrific way to work out the legs and butt.

10. Perform any of the above with your spouse or a friend. There’s certainly someone you know who has the same “no time to exercise” dilemma. Why not pair up with each other? An exercise partner will give you more motivation and who knows, you might enjoy it so that you would be able to create even more time to exercise on your own!

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