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Burning fat involves both diet and exercise. Exercise is a critical aspect of the permanent fat burning program. When you exercise you are expending energy and your body is calling on its stores of food to burn to get you to doing whatever you are doing.
The key is to take in less calories than what you burn a day and by exercising you will be burning more calories a day. Exercise is also an activity that you can do for your lifetime. The key to exercise is to pick one you like and stick with it.
Let's look at five simple exercises that will help you burn fat permanently.
1. Cardiovascular exercises/activity.
Make sure you pick an activity that you like to do to do this. Walking is great but if you have been walking the same route at the same pace and the fat isn't budging then you need to increase the distance and the intensity. In other words, walk faster and go farther. You may need to increase the number of times you are doing it a week.
Also you can try walking and jogging together. Walk to a telephone pole and then jog to the next one. Biking is also great and so is swimming. The key is to keep up the intensity and distance and frequency.
2. Lift weights.
Either buy your own weights (you can buy used weights very reasonably priced at thrift shops and other stores) or join a gym. Try to lift weights two to three times a week for at least 30 minutes. This will help tone you up.
If you have never lifted weights before then you can buy a DVD to help you learn how. Simple bicep curls, tricep lifts and leg lifts are easy to learn how to do. Also if you join a gym, the people there will walk you through the weights and show you how to use them.
3. Broom exercise.
Simply get a broom and hold it straight up over your head, then lean to the right and the left. You should feel the effort in your so-called love handles.
4. Abdominal crunches.
Lay on your back with your knees bent and close to you, feet on the floor. Put your hands behind your head and lift up crunching and using your abs. Don't use your hands to lift your head. Let your abdominal muscles do all the work. Try to start out doing 10 then stopping for three minutes then doing another 10. You can repeat this three times.
If you do this exercise three times a week it will do wonders for toning up your abs. Increase the number you do as your abdominal muscles get stronger.
5. Squat thrusts.
Stand up then bend your knees and go down close to the ground, then extend your arms outward like you are doing a push up. Bring your arms back in and jump back up. Repeat this exercise as many times as you can and continue to build up. It's a hard exercise but does wonders for your buttocks, abdominal muscles, leg muscles and back.
