“Stubborn Fat.” You know what I’m talking about – the kind of flab that sticks to you in those hard-to-lose places: The lower abs, the lower back, the “love handles,” the back of the arms, the upper-thigh/butt area – yeah, THAT fat! How do the bodybuilders and fitness models do it? How does weight loss exercises works? I mean, how do they get that hyper-ripped, thin-skinned look that reveals every ripple and sinew and mound of chiseled muscle definition?

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Weight Training attacks your fat stores in a couple of ways. First, the act of actually working out, as you probably expect, burns calories. However, with weight training, your body continues to burn extra calories long after the workout is complete. How? Well when you weight train, you are actually causing damage to your muscles. Your body needs to repair this damage and that burns calories. So you’re actually burning calories long after your weight training session is over. Finally, simply having muscle requires extra calories. One pound of fat burns 3 to 4 calories per day, one pound of muscle however, burns roughly 50 calories per day. Add 10 pounds of muscle to your body and you’ll be burning an extra 3,500 calories per week, even if you just sit around all day.

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Aerobic cross-training refers to using two to three different types of aerobic exercise during an exercise session. For example, if you plan to exercise for 60 minutes, you might start with 20 minutes of walking or jogging, followed by 20 minutes of biking, and finish with 20 minutes of rowing.

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It’s a given that effective weight loss is much more then simply going on a “diet”. To really lose weight and (hopefully) keep that weight off, you need to add exercise to the equation. For Most people, weight loss exercise means aerobics – running, jogging, kickboxing or some other type of routine where you get your heart racing for 30 to 45 minutes.

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