Boosting Your Metabolism – 3 Tips To Boost Your Metabolism & Blast Your Belly Fat
Have you given thought to boosting your metabolism to help you burn off some of those excess holiday calories? If you’re like myself and you sampled a few too many chocolate chip Christmas cookies you have. If you want to get your metabolism humming along again, no worries, here are a few quick tips to get it up and purring like a kitten.
Tip One
First things first, the frequency of your meals affects your metabolism. Skipping breakfast, eating a huge lunch, and a king size dinner isn’t going to cut it (granted saying no to a juicy burger for lunch or a huge plate of pasta for dinner isn’t always easy;). Studies show that eating 4-6 smaller healthier meals a day (or three healthy meals and a couple healthy snacks) is a great way to go about boosting your metabolism. Another reason that eating a few healthy snacks during the day is a good habit to get into is that doing so will keep you from becoming so hungry by dinner time that you end up eating double or triple what you’d usually eat.
Tip Two
Weight training is number two on the list of ways to help get your metabolism cranked up. The key here is to make sure you’re doing the right exercises. Going to the gym and only working your arms or your calves, may help you develop those muscles, but do little as far as helping you burn fat and get you swimming pool ready. Think about working the big muscles of your body like your legs, back, and chest if you want to lose fat. Turbulence Training probably the best resource I’ve seen when it comes to detailing the right exercises to help you get the most from your workouts.
Tip Three
Finally, coupled with the other topics above, to really get going in high-gear you’ll need to add some form of higher intensity of cardio training. You definitely want to avoid the old school cardio treadmill workouts that take for ever to complete. Think interval training. Interval training involves short spurts of higher intensity cardio work, followed by slower periods of cardio training that you can perform by either walking, running, or biking. 5-10 intervals, with each high intensity interval lasting 15 to 30 seconds (depending on your fitness level) and you’re set. Best thing is that it’s easy to implement and only takes 20 or so minutes two or three to complete.
There are definitely more details, but no matter how you slice it if you want to begin boosting your metabolism, you need to start implementing bits and pieces of all three tips mentioned in this article.
