aimeerich wrote:What is the best exercise to lose weight fast?
Which Cardio Exercise Burns the Most Calories? Below are the top 10 cardio exercises which burn the most calories in 30 minutes.
1. Step Aerobics - one of the most favorite cardio exercises preferred by women. Step Aerobics mainly target your legs, hips and glutes, and can burn approx. 400 calories in 30 minutes.
2. Bicycling - stationary or outdoors is a great cardio exercises, depending on resistance and speed can but 250 to 500 calories in 30 minutes.
3. Swimming - like cross-country skiing is an excellent cardio exercises as it is a full body exercises. Swimming is a great cross-training for other cardio activities. Doing the breast stroke can burn approx. 400 calories in 30 minutes.
4. Racquetball - side to side sprinting makes racquetball and excellent cardio exercises. A 145-lb person burns over 400 calories in 30 minutes.
5. Rock Climbing - is not only a cardio exercises, but also uses arm and leg strength and power. Rock Climbing can burn up to 380 calories in 30 minutes.
6. Cross-Country Skiing - whether on a machine or outdoors on snow, is an incredible cardio exercises as it involves both upper and lower body. A 145 lb person can burn approx 330 calories in 30 minutes.
7. Running - Running is an excellent cardio exercises because all you need is a pair of quality running shoes. Running burns serious calories. A 145 LB person can easily burn 300 calories in 30 minutes.
8. Elliptical Trainer - is an excellent cardio exercises and a great way to build endurance. A 145 LB person can burn about 300 calories in 30 minutes.
9. Rowing - is both a cardio exercises as well as giving your arms an incredible workout. 145 LB person can burn about 300 calories in 30 minutes.
10. Walking - Brisk walking is a less strenuous form of cardio exercises. Walking can burn up to 180 calories in 30 minutes. Sprinting, adding hills or an incline can increase amount of calories burned. For the real high intensity cardio people out there who love the H.I.I.T training (High Intensity Interval Training), below are the top three cardio exercise which will provide amazing results!
1. Jumping Rope - This is one of the simplest, yet most effective exercises one can do. In just 15 to 20 minutes, jumping rope will give you an unparalleled total body workout. Jumping rope is ideal for cardiovascular endurance and enhances performance in virtually any sport - tennis, basketball, football, skiing, volleyball and more. This simple exercise is also great for eye-hand coordination, lateral movement, foot and hand speed and agility.
2. Sprinting - Sprinting not only burns HUGE amounts of calories while sprinting, it also keeps your metabolism flying for days after. Sprinting combined with running / jogging can bring amazing results
3. Spinning - These high-intensity workouts to music simulate a challenging bike ride, complete with hills, valleys and varying speeds, all dictated by the group instructor.
30-45 minutes of High Intensity Cardio is essential to see significant effect. Remember the effort should be continuous. If you are just starting out, you may perform for 20 minutes. But at least 30 minutes is required to burn calories efficiently.
hi Exercise is basically any of the bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness.You need to warm up your body.Do some stretching exercises first.Cardio is the most important one in losing weight.40 Min's of cardio is enough for you.There are many other exercise too like swimming,jumping,running etc.
Its good thing that you home gym but you must consult with a good professional trainer because we ignore many points during the training.. There are many videos of bodybuilding on YouTube, you must watch these videos before start training...
There are lot of exercises to reduce weight . You can do these exercises at your home. You can walk daily about 30 minutes in a day . You should drink green tea and should drink a glass of water 10 times in a day because green tea and water can helpful to reduces your weight easily.I think these are the easiest exercises for us.
I think You require to moderately hot up your body.Do some extending activities first.Cardio is the most significant one in mislaying weight.40 Min's of cardio is sufficient for you
I was wandering around the internet looking for such a forum as this. I will introduce myself properly in another separate post.
I had to stop and respond to this thread. I am a fully qualified Personal Trainer and Nutritionist, the reason I became both of those was to help people lose weight.
There are so many myths, so much confusing information out there. I am on a mission to stamp out those myths, put a lid on that confusing information and give people the exact information that they need.
You will probably hate me for saying this but losing weight is extremely easy! The difficulty is accepting what you have to do to lose that weight and maintaining it.
There is one simple calculation you need to bear in mind to lose weight and that is this:
energy in <energy out
In simplistic terms what you consume in energy needs to be less than the energy you expend or even simpler again, the food you eat needs to be outweighed by the exercise you do. Dieting alone simply will not make you lose weight, not the correct type of weight that is.
You need to exercise in order to burn fat!! That is the important factor here, burning fat weight, not just losing weight! What I mean is, if you go on fad diets that for instance advise you to eat just 1000 calories per day to lose weight then you will, in most cases, lose weight! But....! You will be losing lean tissue, essentially muscle, which is a very unhealthy way to lose weight. So the key is, always keep in mind, to lose weight effectively, safely and correctly you need to burn fat! not lose lean tissue.
There is an explanation for why you lose lean tissue on most diets but I won't go into all of that here in this topic.
I will try and stick to the question asked by the OP, what are the exercises to reduce weight?
If I can firstly rephrase that question, the question should really be "What are the best exercises to lose body fat" remember, that's what we need to burn in order to lose weight healthily. Provided that is, you have excess body fat to lose, if you are already low on body fat percentage then there are health risks associated with going to low, so I don't advise you lose any more!
If you want to lose body fat alone, you need to exercise within the aerobic energy system. The aerobic energy system utilises body fat as it's energy source rather than glycogen which is stored in the muscles and liver. But if you are an untrained, unhealthy individual the body will not utilise that body fat as energy straight away, it takes too long for the body to convert fat into energy so it first uses any energy that is stored in your body from the food you have eaten that day.
It can take anything up to 40 minutes for the body to start using fat as energy! So, you may think that when you are exercising you are burning fat when in fact it may be the case you're not! Not initially. Once the body realises that this is going to be a long training session it starts to then use that excess body fat to burn as energy.
So, to get to the point, the most effective way to utilise body fat as your energy and reduce that body fat (the correct type of weigh to lose) you really need to exercise for atleast 60 minutes! On a treadmill or cross trainer etc, that will utilise body fat most effectively.
The only problem there is that, 60 minutes on the cross trainer or treadmill can seem quite daunting and monotonous and even boring so you will probably lose motivation. Although, if you're serious about losing weight, that should keep you motivated but and i'm going to be harsh, people are just too lazy unfortunately to want to do it and they just look for quick fixes!
So there is another way to do this to make sure that you stick at exercise. You should do at least 30 minutes continuous exercise on one piece of cardiovascular equipment such as the treadmill or cross trainer and a steady pace, you shouldn't be out of breath, that is important, you should feel that you are working but you should still be able to hold a conversation! That way you know you are working effectively withing the aerobic energy system. In most cases after about 14 minutes the body will start using fat as it's energy source, so you will have another 16 minutes of fat burning exercise!
Once you have done that you should then do some resistance training. In other words, lift some weights, I don't mean heavy weights. I mean you want to work the type 1 muscle fibres and work in the endurance zone to help tone up your muscles, aiming for anything between 12 and 20 repetitions.
The more lean muscle tissue you have, the far better you will burn fat and keep it off!!!
There are so many other considerations in this though, here are just a few:
Your Diet Your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) Your body composition Blood Pressure Diabetes Age Lifestyle
The list could go on, this is why Personal Trainers are not an expensive commodity but a worthwhile healthy investment, he or she will work closely with you to make sure you utilise the correct energy systems. Not only that, they will prevent you from a plateau! Your body in a surprisingly short space of time will adapt to any imposed demand so you need to keep progressing, a Personal Trainer will know all about periodisation and they will make sure that you continuously are achieving results.
Anybody can lose weight, if they really want to, that is the biggest hurdle to overcome! The simple fact is, in order to lose weight and maintain it you have to exercise and eat a well balanced diet.
Apologies for such a long post but I hope that goes some way to helping.