How to Burn More Calories
When you’re trying to lose weight and transform your body, there are many factors to consider. You’ll want to work on your mindset, adopt a healthy lifestyle and take basic steps like increasing your daily calorie burn. In short, you’ll need to increase the number of calories you expend daily and try to eat less calories than you burn. This requires a commitment to exercise and setting fitness goals, which a transformational nutrition coach can really help you with.
Read on for a few ways to burn more calories in your everyday life.
Elevate Your Cardio
One of the best ways to improve your overall health and boost your caloric burn is cardiovascular training. This doesn’t mean jumping on the same machine every day and doing the same number of minutes. To boost results and caloric burn, you’ll need to regularly increase the intensity and duration of your workouts. In other words: UPLEVEL CONTINUOUSLY. The longer time you exercise increases both the calories you’re burning during the workout and the afterburn that follows. To boost intensity, consider doing intervals, circuit training or High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). In addition, strive to do longer workouts over time or even add a day to your routine.
Do Resistance Training
Resistance training is excellent for building lean muscle—the greater your lean muscle mass, the higher your caloric burn. Lean muscle revs your overall metabolic rate and even enables your body to torch more calories while resting. Try free weights, resistance bands, machines, or exercises that use your own body weight, like squats, lunges, planks, pushups, etc.
Hydrate Properly
Staying adequately hydrated aids promotes healthy digestion, muscle function and weight loss. Drinking water helps stave off cravings and fills you up. We often confuse thirst with hunger pangs; the next time you feel hungry when you shouldn’t be, try drinking a glass of water. You may be pleasantly surprised at the fact that you’re no longer hungry.
Get Your Zsss
Sleep is a pillar of our overall health, fitness and wellness. When we’re sleep deprived, this can lead to stress and cause your body to produce too much cortisol, which can sabotage your weight loss efforts. Cortisol is a hormone that manages our body’s response to stress and regulates metabolism. Overproduction stimulates appetite, causes cravings for sweet, fatty and salty foods, and ultimately, leads to belly fat. It can also cause your body to produce less testosterone, which may lead to a loss of muscle mass, and in turn, lower our caloric burn. Avoid this at all costs—make it a goal to get somewhere between 7 and 9 hours of quality sleep per night.
Ready to learn more ways to optimize your health and fitness? Consider working with a transformational nutrition coach to change your life and your body.
