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There is a tremendous amount of value in doing intense physical exercise. Study after study has shown that exercise benefits the heart and the cardiovascular system - while speeding up the body's metabolism. Of course, one of the most noticeable benefits of regular exercise is its ability to burn fat.
Weight-loss may be one of the biggest motivators for people to get into exercising. After all, apart from eating the right foods, exercise is the very best way to keep the pounds off, regardless of one's genetics or other lifestyle habits.
For anyone who has gotten into and stuck with an exercise routine for a matter of weeks or months, you know why you keep up the routine: it just feels good to exercise. Your brain releases additional endorphins when you exercise, which is like a natural opiate or drug that just makes you feel good. This feeling can last for hours after the period of exercising is over.
But, back to the fat-burning characteristics of exercise. One natural question is whether all exercises burn fat at the same rate. The short answer is: no.
If you are looking for 3 exercises to burn the most fat, try these exercises:
1. Freestyle swimming:
Swimming is one of the healthiest exercises you can do because it works many muscle groups at once, all while providing a low-impact workout (which is good for your knees). It also provides an excellent workout for the heart. The number of calories you burn depends in part upon your weight, the speed at which you swim, and your swimming rate (i.e., fast vs. slow swimming).
Let's take freestyle swimming as an example. Depending on their speed (fast vs. slow), people of the following weights burn these ranges of calories while swimming:
130 lb. person: 415 to 590 calories/hr.
180 lb. person: 570 to 815 calories/hr.
2. Walking the stairs:
If you choose to run up or walk down stairs as a way to burn fat, you may want to limit this activity to a few days per week; it can be harder on the knees than many other exercise activities. Still, stairs are a nice option because many people already live or work near stairs, turning them into the means of a free workout.
Here are some examples of the rate at which you will burn fat calories with stairs exercises:
The above-mentioned two exercises are cardiovascular exercises. They help you burn fat calories while engaging in the exercises themselves. However, you can also lose fat by building up more muscle through weight training. You see, as you build up muscle, you replace fat with muscle. And, a body with a higher percentage of muscle (as opposed to fat stores) will burn more calories even when at rest.
So, try building up the strength in your arms and legs each day by using dumbbells - or even via good-old push-ups, sit-ups and pull-ups. The increased muscle density in your body will help you to burn away those calories even when you are eating, sleeping, studying or resting.
