Lose Fat, Get Stronger

Posted by Jacqueline at Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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So how do you lose excess body fat from pregnancy? Get Stronger. That's right you need resistance to lose fat . Why is this- well because of EPOC or Oxygen debt. Whatever fancy word you use it works. When you perform resistance training you will build muscle tissue which has a higher metabolic rate at rest than any other tissue in the body. When you perform anaerobic resistance training (push yourself to your heart rate limit) you are using so much oxygen that you heart rate and respiration will stay slightly elevated after you workout which again is the same as a higher resting metabolic rate. You will burn more calories in the long run from performing resistance training for these 2 reason. If you perform cardio and the machine says you have burned 200 calories in 30 minutes- great but that's it, nothing else. If you perform 20 minutes of resistance training and burn 150 calories- you will likely burn another 200 calories or more throughout the day due the effects of that resisitance workout. That just makes sense- workout less and burn more calories. Simple workout plans yielding real results- get over your cardio plateau. Baby Bump Busy Mom Fitness.

Jacqueline Gradish
Baby Bump Fitness

Labels: fitness, health

7 comments:

ladyviral said...: Losing fat after birth...

I am having problem losing fat now even... >_<;; November 3, 2009 6:05 PM
Maria @ Conversations with Moms said...: It makes a lot of sense. I'm trying to work on strengthening my muscles right now.; November 3, 2009 7:17 PM
Gillian said...: Slimply Slim helped me along a bit with doing pilates.; November 4, 2009 12:05 AM
Gillian said...: Slimply Slim helped me along a bit with doing pilates.; November 4, 2009 12:06 AM
Yaya said...: Picking up the baby over and over again is resistance training, right? ;); November 4, 2009 3:45 PM
Noreen said...: No need for equipment to do this, just a little space.
Body weight exercises will do the trick.
Push-ups
squats
split squats
lunges
high knees
mountain climbers
burpees
jumping jacks
jumping side to side
turkish get ups

Group three to five of these exercises in a row
Do the set for 30 secs of each exercise back to back
rest after each set a minute or two

try to work up to 30-40 minutes

good luck; November 8, 2009 2:03 PM
Jacqueline said...: First to Yaya- yes picking up your baby is resistance, but you need to train near your anaerobic threshold to lose fat efficiently- or basically try as hard as you can.
Maria- good for you, are you having any long term results now?

Ladyviral- if you are serious about losing fat anytime try www.babybumpfitness.com/busy_moms/; January 3, 2010 6:03 PM

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