Best Fat Loss Exercise
Written by John Alvino on August 14th, 2008If I had one dollar for every time someone asked me, “What is the best fat burning exercise”, I’d be a rich man today. I always respond the same way to this question. “There is no one best fat burning exercise. In order to have sustainable fat loss results, you must have several effective exercises to choose from.” This is a slightly more complicated (yet more honest) answer than they were expecting. I then have to explain that if you only performed one exercise to burn fat, in addition to being mentally bored, your body would quickly adapt and become stale after a few short weeks.
To get you started right away, I will share with you one of the best fat burning exercises. In addition to this exercise being incredibly effective, it can be performed anywhere without the need for any equipment. It is also very time efficient. Just five minutes of this exercise can burn more fat than a 30 minute jogging workout!
The exercise that I’m going to teach you is called the Advanced Burpee. Since the effectiveness of this movement is greatly determined by technique, I will describe to you in detail how to perform an Advanced Burpee properly. Below, I will explain how to do the movement, step by step.
1) Stand with a shoulder width stance. Squat down and put your hands on the ground in front of your feet.
2) Now, quickly kick your feet back and lower your chest and hips to the ground. This move will essentially put you in the bottom position of a push up.
3) Then, push your chest away from the floor while simultaneously thrusting your legs back up into the squat position with the hands still on the floor.
4) Finish the exercise by jumping up in the air as high as you can. Upon landing, drop back down into the squat position and continue for the desired number of reps.
You can integrate this exercise into your routine in many different ways. Explaining all of the program design options is beyond the scope of this article. I will, however, provide you with one simple option, so you can get started immediately.
Here is your routine: Perform as many Advanced Burpees as you possibly can during the five minute time period. Only high quality reps count. Pace yourself. Be sure to record the number of reps performed. Then the next time you repeat this workout, try to get more reps then you completed previously.
Continue this pattern until no more progress can be made. Once this point is reached, it’s time to change your workout.
You now have an extremely effective fat burning routine that utilizes one of the best fat burning exercises. Even better, it takes only five minutes to perform. Work hard and challenge yourself! You”ll be rewarded greatly for it.
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