subject: Fat Burning Exercises In Less Than 20 Minutes [print this page] Its not uncommon to hate any form of cardio or fat burning exercise. We can assure you, youre not alone on that one but cardio is an essential way to keep fit and healthy and burn fat. The only real thing you can do is make it as quick and as exciting as possible. No more 2 hour long sessions on the treadmill or 10 mile runs, use our fat fighting tips to burn fat in 20 minutes or less.
Before you start getting too excited you should know that you still need to keep to a fairly strict and well-balanced diet plan to make your efforts pay off. The good news is that shorter but more intense workouts have proven to be much more effective than spending hours in the gym.
So without further ado here are our best fat fighting tips.
Make Use of Compound Lifts
When trying to lose fat as fast as possible its important you focus on the main compound lifts. These will keep you strong and work all the main muscle groups for maximum effect as well as burning the most amounts of calories.
Lifts such as squats, bench press and deadlifts will give you great strength gains as well as getting your heart rate going. Try performing 3 or 4 sets of 8 10 reps for a fast but effective workout.
Superset Upper And Lower Body Exercises
Supersets are a great way to speed up your workout as well as burn off more calories. We love them so much we wrote a whole article on them, you can read our guide to supersets.
By using opposing muscles you ensure you can complete your target number of reps and sets without over-working the same muscles and it really does give you a great workout.
Plus, youll be able to work harder in each exercise since the just worked muscle group will have a chance to rest while youre performing the other.
Keep The Weight Heavy
What a lot of people seem to do is when theyre training to lose fat they lighten the weights theyre using, this doesnt help one bit. In fact, its better to keep the weight heavy so that you maintain your muscle mass. By switching to lighter weights your body has no reason to keep the extra muscle tissue as it simply doesnt need it anymore.
Heavy weight actually makes for shorter and more intense workouts. Lighter weights would mean upping the reps and sets you perform which ultimately means more time in the gym to achieve the same thing.
Circuit Exercises
This is something you can even do at home. Make up a little circuit of exercises to do and give each one your maximum effort for 5 minutes then move on to the next exercise. Things such as sprints, star jumps, press ups and skipping are ideal ideas. Anything that rapidly increases your heart rate will fit in with this section.
