Wednesday, December 30, 2009

What You Didn't Know About Your Metabolism

By Marry Dwight

Do you know what metabolism is? It is probably true that you believe it is something you can not understand. This should not be so, because metabolism is a simple concept to comprehend. In a nut shell metabolism is the capacity with which your body breaks down calories. Did you get that?

Do you know that you can use three methods to speed up your body metabolism? These methods are through building your muscle mass, exercise and good dieting in the form of eating the recommended foods that aid metabolism.

Muscle mass is one of the body's mechanisms that most people usually get confused about. Dieters especially the female folks believe that muscles mass is a man affair. Hence, they just don't care about building their muscles mass. As women try to always build your muscle mass if you want to boost your metabolism.

Exercises such as running, swimming, jogging dancing and biking are forms of cardiovascular exercise you can indulge in to boost your metabolism. Cardio exercises are very vital in this respect because they help to use up much energy. This enables your body metabolism to speed up through out the day or after the exercise.

Are you thinking of engaging on resistance exercise? To effectively carry out resistance training, always begin with a simple method that can be performed 3 to 4 times in a week, for 20 to about 30 minutes per session.

This will help increase your body metabolism and develop your muscles as well.

Studies in nutritional science has shown that utilizing food as stimulants can force the body to start producing a mass of fat burning hormones that won't only enhance the body's metabolism rate, but will also burn fat thereby helping to reduce weight.

The best method to apply in shedding weight is to increase the rate of the body's metabolism as much as possible to the highest rate you can get to. Doing this will be more beneficial than just reducing your calories intake.

You may be wondering about the best way to increase the speed of your body metabolism. The fact that you know the speed can be increased to a fast rate is the first step. All you need is to take action. Perform exercises, eat good food and maintain an active lifestyle.

A cardio exercise serves to intensify the rate of your heart beat. The greatest benefit of cardio exercise is that it helps to increase the body's metabolism and sustains it for about a whole day after the performance of the exercise. - 14130

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