Uncover The Way to Increase Your Metabolism and Burn Fat Like an Active Teenager
One of the most effective methods to boost your metabolism is to build muscle mass. People who wish to burn off their surplus fat have a couple of options. They could perform lots of cardio exercises like cycling each day. Or, they can boost their metabolism.
Raising your metabolism is well within your reach. Each pound of muscle on your body burns somewhere between 35 and 50 calories each day. An elite athlete in an intensive muscle building program may add around two-thirds of a pound of lean muscle mass in a week. Of course, with steroids, slightly over a pound of muscle mass could be added.
For the average one who isn't engaged in an elite training program and is not using prohibited drugs, your muscle building results will be less impressive.
An average person may go to the gym around three days a week. Doing some resistance training for 20 to 30 minutes at the gym could add about a quarter of a pound of lean muscle mass in any week. Of course, how intensely you exercise and what muscle groups you exercise will make a big difference here. You may very well be able to add muscle mass more quickly in the beginning.
What does all this muscle building resistance training mean when it comes to losing fat?
Let's take it little by little. After a week of resistance training you will have gained about a fourth of a pound of lean muscle mass. You've raised your metabolism by about 10 calories a day. Doing these workouts for four weeks increases your metabolism by around 40 calories every day. Well, that does not look like much. Is all this exercise going to be worth it?
These results are, indeed, worth it because the effects continue to accumulate from month to month. Working out for only three months will boost your metabolism by over 120 calories every day. Did you realize that this is the equivalent of jogging more than a mile every single day? And, that extra 120 calorie expenditure takes place when your muscles are at rest. Every time you do anything those new muscles will use all the more calories.
Now, not all those calories are burning fat. Muscles burn both fat and sugars for energy. The proportion of fats they burn varies. During sleep your muscles are resting. Some say they are using around 80% fat for energy. Muscles working hard use more sugar for fast energy and can burn around 30% fat or so. What result does this have on getting rid of your extra fat?
How much will this increase metabolism?
After three months of muscle building resistance workouts, your metabolism will have risen. This elevated metabolism will burn about two-thirds of a pound of fat every single month. Of course, any physical exercises you get will help burn off all the more fat. Because you are up and around and able to go to the gym, you're going to burn off more fat than that.
Doing this resistance training has permanently raised your metabolism. Your new muscle mass is burning up fat and helping you slim down. The best part is that you are slimming down automatically even without having to continue your time consuming aerobic exercises.
