Articles tagged with metabolism
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Shrink Fat Cells, Lose Weight and Keep Working
You have to keep working to burn fat and lose weight. Fat cells will shrink when you burn fat but they will fill up again when you are inactive for a long period of time. And, the body fat will come back with a vengeance! Keep body fat off your body by building and [...]
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Top 5 Metabolism Boosters
Metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories. Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the number of calories you would burn if you did nothing all day (or the amount of calories your body needs to maintain itself). I am going to give you some basic tips to keep your metabolism active and ramped up. [...]
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Top 5 Training Mistakes
1) Winging It: This means having no written goals, training journal; no way of tracking progress. It’s when you just show up to the gym and go from one machine to next, or use whatever equipment is available at the time. Winging it is when you don’t know where you are, where you’re going and what [...]
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Top Reason Womens’ Metabolisms Slow Down
The number one reason that womens’ metabolisms slow down is loss of muscle mass. It is definitely true that age, genetics, diet, etc. also play roles in the speed of a woman’s metabolism. But, the top way to keep your metabolism humming is to build and maintain muscle mass throughout your life. Muscle tissue is [...]
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5 Ways to Beat the Worktime Snack Attack
Dinner is traditionally eaten between the hours of 5 PM and 8 PM. Not before. Not after. Since the majority of us don’t have the luxury of living off Seinfeld residuals, we have to go to work, and sometimes that means we can’t eat at normal hours, or in any sort [...]
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Eat Properly To Lose Weight
The type of food you eat and timing of what you eat is very important for your metabolism. Your body needs adequate amounts of the macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats) to function properly. Increasing lean body mass is critical in order to permanently speed up your metabolism. The body has to work harder to maintain muscle [...]
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Slow Metabolism Does Not Cause Weight Gain
Don’t blame your weight gain on your slow metabolism. Your weight gain is due to you eating more calories than you burn, or a caloric surplus. There are some medical exceptions to this rule but let’s not deal with those situations now. For most of us, we gain weight because we eat too much and exercise [...]
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The Slow Metabolism: Fact or Myth
"I am doing everything right and it's not working!". If you have ever thought the aforementioned - usually cried in paroxysms of grief after an unfortunate run-in with the Scale of Self Destruction - then you have inevitably wondered 'Maybe I have a slow metabolism?'. The Set-Point Theory One of the most hotly debated theories in [...]
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Burn Fat While Watching Television
Exercising and burning fat in front of the television is a task that we can do all the time! It is an excellent way to make the most of your precious time and a cure to the common complaint: “I’m too busy to workout” from people. If you want permanent fat loss and weight loss, you [...]
