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Guide to Lose Weight With Exercise
The American College of Sports Medicine recommended 30 minutes a day of moderate aerobic activity to ward off the risk factors. It should be clear that this recommendation is to promote health, and is not a direct passport to weight loss.
Maintaining a caloric balance, that is, eating the same calories spent on the day to lose weight you must burn 2500 calories per week just by doing some physical activity. Of those 2500 calories, at least 800 must be burned by high intensity exercise.
Therefore, aerobic exercises are not the only ones that must be made in weight reduction programs, and generally makes low intensity. Unless sandwich short periods of high intensity, active breaks, ie, moving slowly to recover.
One sure way to increase the intensity physical exercise is doing strength training. Read the rest of this entry »