Posted by Yulia Berry

If you do an online search for the best exercise to burn body fat you get overwhelmed with information. There are a lot of exercises to burn fat think about cardio, walking, spinning, swimming, dancing. Do not get me wrong all these above exercises to burn body fat work if you apply them. But the best exercise to burn body fat is weight lifting.

Perhaps you associate weight lifting only with building muscles and increasing strength. If your goal is to burn fat you need to do weight lifting. Do you follow a diet but you don’t train with weights yet? You are at a great risk; if you follow a diet without weight training you will lose muscle. If you lose muscle your resting metabolic rate will decrease and you will burn fewer calories.

I bet you don’t want to be a bodybuilder but let me tell you that bodybuilders are fat burning machines. The more muscles you have the more fat you will lose. I’m sure you realize already that weight lifting is the best exercise to burn fat. But I do also know that one thing stop you to put this information into practice. You don’t want to be a bodybuilder. Don’t worry about almost hundred percent of the bodybuilders are using anabolic drugs to get abnormally large muscles mass.

Keep in mind that you should do this for a very long time, with a very long time I mean all your life. If you stop weight lifting your muscles will shrink back to their original seize but muscles can’t change into fat.

Tips that work for the best exercise to burn body fat.

- An ideal workout duration is around 45 minutes. - Don’t train more then two days in a row. - It is a myth that high repetition burns more fat. - Don’t repeat the same weight lifting exercise over and over again, this is a deadly mistake.

You can say without doubt that weight lifting is the best exercise to burn body fat. However it is not the Holy Grail of fat loss. The secret to burn body fat fast is a combination of nutrition, weight training, aerobic training and very important motivation. If someone has told you that you can lose body fat fast by taking drugs or supplements then they have lied to you.

By Frederik Deglande