Basal metabolic rate (BMR), my goodness that sounds like a long confusing phrase that someone who just wants to lose their belly fat needn't know about! Well, sorry but bear with me for a minute, BMR is at the very heart of losing belly fat and is the secret key to getting the body you deserve. Here is why:
BMR equates to the amount of energy your body burns off whilst at rest. This energy is burnt off by simply keeping the vital organs of the body alive and functioning properly. If this rate is low then you don't use up many calories, if it is high then the body uses up a lot of calories. Clearly for weight loss purposes a high BMR is very desirable, what it means is that even at rest when you are doing nothing you can be burning through calories and contributing to weight loss. So, how can you increase your basal metabolic rate? here are a few tips that will point you in the right direction:
1) Interval training. Aside from the health benefits of exercise on the cardio-vascular system as well as the calories that you use up whilst you exercise, exercise also increases the BMR so after you whilst you exercise and after you finish your BMR is higher. Just what the doctor ordered for burning belly fat. Interval training is more stressful than long continuous training such as jogging. It requires you to perform short bursts of exercise followed by short periods of light exercise and increases MBR much more than old fashioned long continuous forms of exercise.
2) Weight lifting. Similar to the previous point but lifting weights gives an even greater boost to BMR which lasts for even longer, so make sure you put this on your belly burning to do list. What is more the more muscle you have in your body the higher your MBR will be because simply your body ha more tissue to take care of, so keep pumping iron!
3) Drinking tea and coffee. Both of these have been shown to raise BMR and are both also proclaimed to have certain disease preventing qualities such as anti-oxidants. Another simple yet effective technique.
4) Regular food consumption. I think we can all agree that the bodies main job is to keep itself alive and functioning properly. To that end if the body is made to feel it is starving then it will lower its MBR in order to hold onto the energy that it does have to ensure it can stay alive longer. This is known as the starvation response and is why drastic calorie cutting does not work! The body will try and hang on to every calorie and fat cell it can in order to stay alive. At the other end of the scale however, if the body is happy and believes it has a comfortable supply of food that it will quite happily raise its MBR and burn off excess calories. So, eating regular meals and not skipping breakfast is a must in order to burn belly fat fast!
5) Eating spicy foods. Spicy ingredients such as chillis contain a certain chemical that triggers the speeding up of the MBR, so that is another handy trick.
Now, that you an idea of a few really simple yet effective ways to raise your MBR, why not go ahead and put them into practise no-one else is responsible for burning your belly fat, only you!
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