How to Increase Metabolism – Top 10 Tips Part 1
You cut calories and you exercise. You do exactly what you have been shown and ensure that your calories in are greater than your calories out, producing a daily calorie deficit. You should be losing fat. But if you aren’t then perhaps you’re still not paying attention to an often forgotten factor of fat loss – your metabolism. Read More »
Increase Metabolism–Top 10 Tips Part 2
When it comes to learning how to increase metabolism, many people assume it’s all about physical activity. But physical activity is not the whole picture and if you’re looking at ways to boost your metabolism, you will need to combine diet and exercise properly. The following 3 food tips will help you on your metabolism boosting journey.
- Green Vegetables – One of the best metabolism boosting foods are green leafy vegetables such as spinach, broccoli and cabbage. These are great staple foods to add to your diet because they are nutrient rich and full of fiber and iron. Green leafy vegetables are not calorie dense and in some schools of thought it is suggested that more energy is used in digesting these vegetables than they contain which makes them calorie negative.
- Carbohydrates – Carbohydrates are often times seen as the weight loss enemy but that’s only half true. You shouldn’t be eating too many carbohydrates, but that is not a call to omit them completely. If you’re going to eat carbs, make sure that you look for wild rice, steal cut oats, and whole grains whenever possible. Avoid eating highly processed foods like white bread, white rice, and cereals that have more sugar than fiber content. To keep it simple avoid all white carbohydrates and only eat other carbohydrates within 1 hour of finishing exercise. Read More »
Increasing Metabolism – Top Ten Tips Part 3
The human body is an incredibly sensitive machine with world beating survival techniques built into its systems. One of those systems is learning to adjust to new environments in terms of food intake and energy storage.
The body will eventually adapt to an increased metabolism, recognize the new regime and then work out how to store fat within the new framework. Once we know how to increase metabolism we then need to train our body to maintain it’s newly found metabolic state. We can easily do this by altering the intensity of our physical activity and allowing for calorie spikes once per week.
- Exercise With Intensity – If you want to burn fat for longer and ensure your metabolism stays supercharged then you need to vary the intensity of your physical activity. This can be as simple as including fast running or fast walking intervals to your cardiovascular exercise and only allowing a 30 second break between sets when doing your evening strength exercises. The idea is to get your heart rate pumping, take a short rest and then resume again before your heart rate is fully recovered. Exercising in this way provides the metabolism with a massive stimulus and ensures your body burns fat even after your exercise has finished.
- Enjoy Cheat Days – Cheat days is perhaps the wrong term because there is nothing about them that is cheating. You simply need to have one day per week where you eat whatever you like. The body needs this caloric spike in order to shock it out of storing fat and by doing so you are sending your body the message that excess calories will be coming in on a regular basis. For any weight loss or weight maintenance plan to work in the long term you need to have cheat days or you will go insane. No one should deny themselves the foods they love for the rest of their lives and nor do they need to. Fall off the diet wagon once per week and you will stay slim for life. Read More »