Daily Aerobic Exercise
Nothing is more important for losing fat and getting fit than aerobic exercise. Aerobic means continuous exercise like walking, jogging, bicycling, aerobic routines. If you’re serious about losing weight, make aerobic exercise a daily habit just like brushing your teeth, showering and other habits you never miss doing. When’s the last time you missed brushing your teeth in a 24-hour period? Probably never, right? That’s the kind of commitment true fat loss and fitness takes—you just don’t miss. You make time for it and do it. The important thing is to get at least thirty minutes a day of moderately intense aerobic, fat-burning exercise.
Make the commitment. Find the time, make the time, take the time and just do it. Shoot for seven days a week. Six if you can’t do seven and five if you can’t do six, but five is the minimum. Some exercise coaches say seven days is too much. I disagree, but you may agree, and if you do, take a day off. Or two. Whatever suits you best, but the minimum is five days. Why? Because we all have a 24-hour metabolism cycle. To burn fat more effectively 24 hours a day, we want to exercise—heat up—our bodies on a daily basis to permanently change our metabolism. Exercising less than 5 times a week won’t do enough to change our metabolism and really burn fat. We have to get good aerobic exercise daily, or a minimum of five days a week, to see dramatic, permanent fat loss.
Get aerobic exercise daily, even if it’s raining. If it happens to be raining when it’s my time to exercise, I put on my rash-guard shirt and a pair of shorts and get out there. I don’t care! What do I care if I get wet? I make it fun and get my exercise, hell or high water. Had some of my best, most fun workouts in the rain. No excuses!
Top choices for aerobic exercise are walking, jogging, Spinning, aerobic exercise routines and stair stepping. All of these must be done continuously for a minimum of 20 minutes to work.
Another great exercise tip is to exercise in the morning. When blocking out time to do your daily exercise, make it in the morning if possible. If this means getting up an hour or 90 minutes earlier, do it. Why is morning so important? Because when we exercise in the morning, particularly first thing, we’re charging up our metabolism right from the start of the day. This keeps it elevated throughout the day, so we’re burning extra calories even when we’re not exercising. If we wait until the afternoon or later to exercise, our metabolism tapers off sooner and we lose the benefit of burning extra calories.
For fit exercisers, anaerobic or strength/resistance exercise has fantastic payoffs. But for pure fat burning, you cannot beat daily aerobic exercise.
