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Best Early Morning Exercise - Burn More Calories
You can burn more calories by moving your workout
to the early morning. The best time to exercise is early morning.
Weight gain can be a very slow process. For most
people, it is a matter of one pound here, one pound there, and the
next thing you know you're 10 pounds heavier. This is why almost
everyone, at one point or another, will want to lose 10 pounds. To
lose 10 pounds is very realistic for almost everyone, and is
achievable though some small changes in diet and by exercising more.
The vast majority of people, with their busy schedules, get little
or no exercise, so even a small bit of regular exercise should be
able to achieve noticeable results. If we don't have time to
exercise a great deal, though, we're going to want to maximize the
effectiveness of the exercise we do get, and a great way to do that
is by exercising in the morning.
There are two main reasons why you can more easily lose 10 pounds by
exercising in the morning. The first has to do with the fact that it
is much easier to build into your daily routine. One of the keys to
losing weight by exercise is to do it regularly, which many people
find difficult: it's always hard to find time. So a great reason for
exercising in the morning is that you'll have very little
distraction. In many ways, you are literally "making time" for the
exercise by starting your day earlier.
Now, in terms of your goal to lose 10 pounds, morning exercise will
be more effective because you will be burning calories from fat
already in your system. This principle is based, of course, on the
idea that you don't eat before you exercise. The way you're going to
lose 10 pounds is by burning fat, and when you exercise your body
normally burns both fat and carbohydrates. Now it gets a little more
complicated: your body's main and preferred energy source is
carbohydrates, so when you exercise you will (more or less) burn
carbohydrates first, and then your body will dip into its fat
reserves.
Carbohydrates come from your meals, so when you exercise at a normal
time of the day your body will have plenty of carbohydrates to burn.
In trying to lose 10 pounds, however, you're hoping to burn fat. If
you exercise in the morning on an empty stomach, you're burning
energy at a time when your body's carbohydrate levels are the
lowest, and therefore more fat will be burned with the same amount
of exercise. There have been studies that suggest over 250% more fat
is burned when you exercise in this state.
There is never any immediate way to lose 10 pounds - ultimately,
losing weight requires smart dietary decisions and a well thought
out routine of exercise. By exercising in the morning, however, you
will be giving yourself a distinct advantage in that battle to lose
10 pounds - you will be privy to not only a physiological advantage,
but also the practical one of conducting your exercise at the
beginning of the day without distraction.
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