How to Lose Body Fat - Which Exercises Are the Best?

How to lose body fat is a question that everyone iscalories to lose 1 pound of weight our theoretical 200
asking today. What do I do besides cutting back on mypound man would have to walk 15.35 days at 2 miles
calorie intake? Which type of exercise should I do?a day to lose 1 pound. In a years time by walking
Which will burn the most calories? Which is best toeveryday he would lose about 24 pounds.
help me keep the weight off permanently?Please understand I urge everyone who can who is
Believe it or not rollerblading will burn more calories pernot doing any exercise of any kind to take up walking.
hour than any other exercise but realistically howIts health benefits aside from weight loss are life
many of us will do that? So, among the kinds ofsaving and life preserving. However, if you are able
exercises people normally do for weight loss whichand want to lose weight faster go with a more intense
burns the most calories?workout.
The stair treadmill rates number one at approximatelyCommonsense tells us all that you are burning far
819 calories burned per hour for a 200 pound man.more calories when the sweat is rolling and you are
Coming in second is jogging at 5 miles per hour with adeep breathing. Some have said that a mile is a mile
728 calorie burn and then high impact aerobics at 637and that the difference in calories burned between
calories burned per hour. Walking comes in far behindwalking and jogging is minimal. However, some recent
at 228 calories at a 2 mile per hour pace and 346research has brought that into question.
calories at a three and a half mile per hour pace, all ofAccording to research done in 2004 at Syracuse
this for a 200 pound man. These are statistics thatUniversity in the Department of Exercise Science it
came from the Mayo Clinic so should be reliable.was found that you actually burn about 41% more
We have lost a little common sense in the weight losscalories running than walking. And, you have to add to
field over the years because, in my opinion at least, wethat those extra calories burned after the end of your
have mixed together weight loss and health benefitsexercise session. Your body remains revved up longer
and lumped them both into one category. People arethus burning more calories than it otherwise would
told to walk to lose weight. The truth is the far greaterafter a jogging session versus a walking session.
benefit to walking is in getting cholesterol and bloodSo, it would seem the more intense your exercise the
sugar under control and helping with high bloodmore calories burned. Surprised? No, not really, but the
pressure and stress.truth remains that the type of exercise that will burn
Actual calories burned in walking are minimal for thethe most calories for you is the exercise you will
time spent. Since it takes a calorie burn of 3500persist in day after day over the months and years.