Simple Exercise
Exercise encompasses a lot of wives tales and jargon, but you only need to know that it means you are doing "something" other than sitting...doing nothing. Your diet is not the only thing that you need to consider for changing or for maintaining.
Exercise must also be what you incorporate with your diet in order to reach your goal(s), or to maintain when you are ready. Anything - quite literally - can be exercise. It's not important for you to perform specific exercises to lose fat. But there are specific methods for each type of exercise program you undertake. Gaining strength or muscle size mandates a lot of resistance.
You do not need to lift heavy weights unless you are trying to promote muscle size or strength. You should know that most people have lost a lot of muscle by doing nothing. It only takes 2 weeks "after" you stop lifting weights to begin losing any muscle you created during your weight lifting.
The simplest exercise is walking, and you most absolutely "will" lose fat by just walking! If your idea of exercise is watching TV or playing games all day, surprise! You are burning fat! But, you still must know if you are eating the right number of calories for whatever activities you do daily. Garrison Body can show you how to lose half a pound a day by just walking, and you don't have to walk like you are in a marathon. Just walk at your normal pace.
If you are more interested in playing games or watching TV, you "could" still lose some fat. The "secret" to losing fat is to KNOW how many calories you burn daily, then you will KNOW how much food to eat. But you must have a Calorie Calculator that is accurate. Head over to the Garrison Body Proprietary Calorie Calculator and you will visually see the calories you burn, which will also show you how many calories you should have eaten for the day you are calculating. Be sure to write down everything you eat and all your activities time so you will be able to enter all the data in the calculator.
Walking can burn up to 500 Calories per hour. 2 hours of walking (even if you break up the total time of walking so you don't do it all at one time) would be more than adequate to burn "enough" Calories daily and lose fat fast. But, before you tell others that you found somewhere that everybody burns 500 Calories an hour, that is not true! You need to understand that weight, speed and incline have everything to do with how many Calories you burn walking. If you can keep a steady pace of 3 MPH walking, you will burn close to that 500 Calories per hour, possibly more.
By far, the best way to walk-off-fat is to walk at your typical pace - on a flat surface. You read that correctly. You do not need to have a bunch of hills or stairs to climb while you are walking. Just find somewhere you enjoy walking and go for it. You should have a heart rate monitor that you can wear and check often so you can visually see your heart rate. You want to make sure you are at 60% or less of your MHR while walking.
What is the Best Workout Program?
That question mandates more information.
- If you are trying to build muscle, there is a specific workout program for that.
- If you are trying to lose fat, there is a specific workout for that.
- If you are trying to increase muscle size, there is another workout for that.
- If you want to "maintain" your current weight and dimensions, there is another workout for that too.
Regardless of the 4 different types of workout programs you wish, NONE of them can give you great results if you mix them up.
If you are thinking that you can trick your body into doing anything you want, That won't work. When you attempt to force your body to eat very little, you are starving your body. When you starve your body from nutrition, it WILL eat anyway! Guess what it will eat? Muscle!
Your body has limits, requirements and methods it uses to comply with whatever goals you have. If you combine those goals, your results will be poor - at best. Clarity is critical. Pick 1 type of workout and stick with that for 12 weeks (3 months). That is usually the time it takes to go through an entire routine. If you follow the guidelines and expertise of Garrison Body, you will see results fast and realize that you want "more"! For those who think they are already at their peak, surprise! You "can" do more.
When you consider a workout program, you must also consider which 1 of 4 types of programs you wish to address. You will NOT address them all at once. You need to select which program you want to target and perform the exercises accordingly.
You could increase strength, increase muscle "size" or lose fat with any of the programs other than "maintenance". But only as a "side-effect". In other words, you might see a "little" size and / or strength gain, but not significantly. But that does not mean you should combine the various types of workouts. Doing that just reduces your results to extremely limited results.
Take a look at the various workout programs available and see which one you wish to target. When you are ready, use the Garrison Body Professional Workout Program Creator. You enter your 1 repetition maximum (1-Rep Max), the specific machine for each muscle group, and the calculator will provide the precise weights for each exercise that you may print and take with you every time you work out.