Would Working Out Twice A Day Help Me Burn More Fat? Maybe Running In The Morning Then Going 2 The Gym @ Night?
Posted on November 06th, 2009 in Flatter Stomach
I work out 4 to 5 days a week for about 1.5 to 2 hours. I eat healthy and I want to lose more weight, especially belly fat. I weigh 125 and I am 5’4. When I go to the gym I do about 45 minutes to 1 hour of cardio then I use 8lb weights and do other exercises. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you 
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November 7th, 2009
Doing cardio is always important and it sounds like you are doing plenty of it. I would however suggest doing shorter interval workouts instead of long slow cardio workouts. When you shock your body it burns fat much faster. If you do the same type of cardio all the time at the same speed your body gets used to it and the workout becomes much less effective in burning fat. You want to keep your body guessing.
I would also suggest doing more challenging strength training exercises. There are studies that show your metabolism stays at a hightened level far longer after weight training then after doing cardio. So the lasting bennifits are better with weight training. I want to say it was something in the range of 12-13 hours of increased matabolism after cardio and 30 hours of increased matabolism after weight training.
Hope this helps
November 7th, 2009
A common misconception is that you can spot reduce (lose fat at certain spots) and is totally not factual. The reality is we lose weight differently with most people losing it in the arms, shoulders, and legs with belly fat usually being the last to go (while ironically it is where the body tends to store it first when you put on weight). However you can tone up those muscles when you do exercise such as sit-ups preferably on workout balls to add resistance especially when it gets easy, leg raises and a workout called 6inches. These help tone up your midsection while also helping posture and balance, they aren’t called the core muscles for nothing. Running or jogging also works out those muscles and increases lung capacity and is also great for burning fat. But the most effective means to burning fat is increasing muscle mass. The more muscle mass you have, the faster your metabolism will be. Implement a strength gaining workout where you try to max out (meaning you lift the highest weight you can lift and then go about 75-85% of that weight and do 2-3 sets of maybe 4-5 reps). As you increase muscle mass you will burn more calories at rest, than previously before. The most important thing to do during this time period is to make sure your getting enough calories to feed these working muscles, otherwise you will not see any gains. This means you must eat a properly balanced diet, and absolutely do not cut back on Carbs as they are the body’s main source of energy during physical activity.
November 7th, 2009
Do your cardio in the morning before you eat if possible. This tactic burns stored energy only (because you havent eaten yet) then in the after noon train with weights.
November 7th, 2009
Yup’ even a long walk burn your Fat everyday