The Best Way To Fire Up Your Metabolism,
Burn Fat Fast & Developing Lasting Health
By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss & Fitness Expert & Creator of 'Fat Burning Furnace'
Ask ten people what type of exercise they should be doing to burn fat and fire up their
metabolism and they’ll all probably tell you the same thing. They’ll tell you that you
need to do 30-40 minutes of moderately-paced aerobic exercise on a treadmill, elliptical
machine, stair climber, etc. for 3-5 times per week.
They’ll probably also tell you that more is better…4 times per week would be better than
3, and 5 times per week would be even better.
People will tell you this because that’s been and continues to be the mainstream
recommendation for fat burning by many fitness professionals. Get in a certain target
heart rate and stay at that heart rate for 30 minutes or so, several times per week. I am
here to tell you there is a better way.
Sure, you’ll burn some calories while you’re running to nowhere on a treadmill, but you
won’t make a complete physique transformation with this type of exercise alone.
In fact, this type of exercise can actually be counterproductive to burning fat. Here are
just a couple of reasons:
Long duration, lower intensity aerobics calls upon your stored body fat for energy during
the sessions. While this may sound good, this can actually cause your body to create

more body fat in reserve after the workout is over to have ready for your next
workout. Yikes!
What's worse, this type of exercise when done frequently as typically suggested, trains
your cardiovascular system to be efficient. Again, while this sounds good, your heart
and lungs can actually reduce their capacity for work as they are getting more efficient
at doing easy work (your long duration, low intensity aerobic workouts), which reduces
their ability to handle stress.
This can lead to a host of other problems including higher change of heart attack. You
are only working within your current aerobic capacity because you're never challenging
it to go beyond what it's capable of. And anything that is easy will not yield results even
close to what’s 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 is this done?
The fastest and most efficient way to rev up your metabolism, burn fat faster, and
develop lifelong health and fitness is to add lean muscle to your body through
resistance training - period. You want life changing results in the quickest possible time?
Get stronger and build some muscle. When you add lean muscle to your body you’ll be
literally turning your body into a fat burning machine!
Let’s say that you were eating the amount of calories that allow you to maintain your
current bodyweight, but began to add lean muscle to your body through proper
resistance training…you’ll need to use some of those calories you’re eating to feed the
new muscle, creating 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. This calorie deficit combined with the repair and growth process will allow you
to burn fat all day long, every day. You’ll even get these fat burning effects when you’re
sitting around doing nothing at all.

Also, properly conducted resistance training actually increases your heart and lung's
capacity for work. By placing intense demands on your body, it is forced into being
ready for anything you throw at it. This makes you more resistant to cardiovascular
health problems that plague most people...even those that exercise with aerobics
frequently.
And the beauty is I’ve discovered that you don’t have to spend much time working out to
get the fat loss effects, and strength and muscle gains that will create this
environment…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.
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 it...muscle is the
stuff that fat burning furnaces are made of! That I can promise you.
Rob Poulos is a celebrated fitness author, fat loss expert, and the founder and CEO of Zero to
Hero Fitness. Rob created the world's most efficient method for fast and permanent fat loss
with his "Fat Burning Furnace" system to help those looking to put an end to restrictive fad diets,
long boring cardio workouts, and the need for super-human willpower for good.
Claim your free copy of Rob Poulos's "7 Secrets Of Permanent Fat Loss & Fitness" at his
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