The Start of Your Fitness Journey.
Hello and welcome to this month's blog post!!
In this post I'll be talking about how to burn body fat, including advice on dieting and workouts. Let's get started.
To start of let's talk about what body fat is and how we can lose excess of it, body fat is a type of fat found in your adipose tissue and is used as an energy source for your body, it also acts as insulation and cushions your body. It's located around your organs and under your skin. During exercise, the fat is broken down to release energy, causing the cells to shrink.
Facts Vs. Fiction
lies
1 - supplements can help you lose weight
2 - You need to starve to lose weight
3 - fast food causes obesity, bad quality food causes health issues
4 - weight loss diets work, don't listen to social media fads
5 - you need to be thin to be healthy, N-O
Facts
1 - weight training helps burn calories; you won't turn into the Hulk
2 - steady state cardio and HIIT are equally as important
3 - good sleep and water intake is good
4 - Spices are good for you, you don't need bland chicken and rice with broccoli
5 - quality over quantity, in both exercise and dieting
Fat burning advice.
- Moderate alcohol and greasy food
- learn to calm down
- become more active
- get some sleep (8 hours)
Dieting
what to eat
-Natural/Whole food
- Protein
- fruits and vegetables
what to avoid
- over salted/ overly sugar foods
- excess fried food
- processed food
- processed fruits and vegetables
how to plan your diet
1 -calculate your dietary needs using a trusted calorie calculator
2 - set reasonable goals and a timeframe to achieve them
3 - set a daily meal plan to help you achieve this goal
Good foods.
-Eat soluble fibers (Fruits/Vegetables/legumes/oats/barley)
- protein (meat/fish/eggs/dairy/beans)
- fatty fish (salmon/herring/sardines/mackerel/anchovies)
Exercise
Exercising isn't always easy, but it's also not as hard as social media makes it look. Something you need to realize is that you don't need some crazy, over-the-top, bodybuilding plan, in order to lose weight and be healthy. Here are some important things to note when planning to exercise.
-warmups and cooldowns are important
-strength training and cardio need to work together
-you don't need a gym membership or weights to work out.
now that you've realized that, here are the basics of working out.
-pushups
-sit-ups
-squats
-chin ups
-pullups
-jogging
Using variation of these 6 exercises, and changing the amount you do, is enough to get you started on your fitness journey.
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