Who Else Wants To Speed Up Their Metabolism
Ask 10 people what kind of exercise you should be doing to burn fat quickly and speed up your metabolism and they will probably all tell you the same thing. They will say that, three to five times per week, you should workout on the treadmill, the elliptical machine, the stair climber, etc for thirty to forty minutes at a moderate aerobic speed. They will also probably say that a little more is better…. 4 times a week is better than 3 and 5 times a week is even better.
Many people will tell you this because that has been and continues to be the accepted recommendation for burning fat quickly by many fitness professionals. For about 30 minutes a few times a week, put your heart in a certain target rate and keep it there.
I am here to tell you there is a better way to speed up your metabolism. If all you are doing is burning some fat while running on a treadmill to nowhere, you won't make a complete physique transformation.
Here are just a couple of reasons why this type of exercise can actually be counterproductive to burning fat. Long duration exercise and lesser intensity aerobics use your stored body fat for energy, during your workout sessions. Even though this may seem feasible, it will not increase your metabolism and it can even force the body to store additional body fat for reserve to have on hand for the next workout.
Yikes! When this type of exercise is done frequently as typically suggested, it trains the cardiovascular system to be efficient and in this case that is not good. Once more, this may sound good, but your heart and lungs can actually reduce their capacity for work, as they are getting more efficient at doing an easy task (as an example, your long duration, low intensity aerobic workouts), which will reduce your heart and lungs ability to deal with physical stress.
This can lead to a host of other problems including higher chance of a heart attack. You are only working within your current aerobic capacity because you are never challenging it to improve on it's capability. And anything that is easy will not yield results even close to what is challenging for the body to accomplish. Instead, you should be challenging the body to increase its capacity, so that it is stronger and able to deal with stress more easily. How do you do this? Resistance Training is the fastest and most efficient way to speed up your metabolism, burn fat fast, and develop lifelong health and fitness that will add lean muscle to your body.
If you want life changing results in the quickest possible time, then get stronger and build some muscle. When you add lean muscle to your body you will turn your body into a fat burning machine!
Let's say that you were consuming the total number of calories that keeps you current body weight stable, but now you start to add lean muscle to your body with proper anaerobic training...then you will need to use some of those calories that you are eating to feed the new lean muscle and this will create a calorie deficit in your body.
In addition, when you stimulate your body with proper resistance training like I teach my students, the repair and growth process will call upon your stored body fat for energy. You will be able to burn fat fast all day long with this calorie deficiency along with the repair and growth process.
You’ll even get these fat burning effects when you’re sitting around doing nothing at all. Your heart and lung's capacity for work will become greater with properly conducted resistance training.
Your body will be forced to be ready for anything you throw at it, when you place intense demands on it. This allows you more resistant to cardiovascular health problems that many people are worried about...and that includes those that exercise with aerobics frequently.
What I have discovered is that you don’t have to spend a great deal of time working out to get the fat loss effects, speed up your metabolism and gain the strength and muscle…you can actually get it done with 2 or 3 weekly workouts that last between 20 and 30 minutes, and even less time at an advanced level.
Remember the key to raising your fat burning capability to the max is to speed up your metabolism.
You will increase up your metabolism if you use the physical exercises properly.
And it’s easy to make this type of exercise part of your life because of its efficiency…and it will help keep you lean and healthy for the rest of your life...muscle is the stuff that fat burning furnaces are made of! Of that I can promise you.

