Losing Weight vs. Cutting Weight
For someone attempting to lose weight strictly through exercise and healthy eating, you can expect to lose 1/2 - 1 & 1/2 pounds per week...
Fitness Tip: Fat Calories
When it comes to calories, many people don't understand how many more calories they are consuming when they're eating foods high in fat...
Fitness Tip: Eating Out
Dividing your meal in half when it first arrives to your table is a great way to control your portion size when eating out...
Fitness Tip: Karvonan Formula
The Karvonan Formula can be used to determine your optimum heart rate training zone. It works like this: Take the number 220 and subtract your age, then subtract your resting pulse.
Fat Burning Zone
There's a big misconception that there is a fat burning zone that you want to stay within to burn fat.
Not Losing Weight?
When you’re exercising but not losing weight, it’s very frustrating, to say the least. For those people just starting an exercise program, it’s extremely important to stay motivated, and if your goal is to lose weight, but you’re not seeing a change on the scale in the first month or so, many people will quit. There are a number of reasons why a person just starting an exercise program may not see a change on the scale.
Don’t Skip Meals to Lose Weight
If your goal is to lose weight, one of the worst things you can do to your body is skip meals. Now that isn’t to say that a person can’t diet, but dieting does not mean starving yourself.
Formula for Fat Loss
Whoever said losing weight is simple? Well, it’s not—it takes diligence, hard work, knowledge and consistency. In order to lose weight, a person must cause a deficit between the calories consumed and the calories burned.
Ten Steps to Easy Weight Loss
We’re bombarded on a daily basis with the latest methods to lose weight. It’s confusing to say the least, so I decided to dedicate this edition’s column to that very subject in order to cut through the confusion. Listed below are the first five best, no non-sense ways to maximize weight loss.
Five Golden Fitness Rules
“What should I do to get in shape and lose weight”? Well, the answer depends on a lot of factors. What works well for one person may not work for another. However, there are some rules that are necessary and absolute like the following: