Effective and healthy weight loss exercise is based on progressive resistance principle.  However, some people claim that progression in exercise will increase the risk of injury.  Some said that they are just best in maintaining same type of weight loss exercise with same intensity as they have benefited from them.

Once you understand the concept of healthy weight loss and right exercise, you will know that there are 3 common misconceptions people used to have about progression in weight loss exercise:

1) We have to Run to Burn Calories
In fact, you are no need to run to burn calories in any weight loss exercise.  Some people believe that only running can burn calories because of the intensity.  Yes, running is very intense and it places high demand on the heart to pump blood to the working muscles.

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It is no doubt that cardiovascular exercise brings a number of health benefits, including healthy weight loss when performed on a regular basis.  However, we need to make progression in cardiovascular exercise if you want to have good results in healthy weight loss.  Of course, we need to understand how oxygen transportation system works in our body before you agree with what I suggest and start the program in losing weight.

When you perform cardiovascular exercise, say jogging, your large muscles in the lower body require oxygen to perform the activity.  So, the heart will pump the blood which contains oxygen to the particular working muscles.  Your heart rate is elevated at that moment.  However, when time goes by, once the body is efficient at supplying oxygen to the working muscles, it does not have to work as hard as before and thus will burn fewer calories.  When you are in a program for weight loss, you want to burn more calories, right?  Therefore, you must also make progression in your cardiovascular exercise so that you can succeed in a healthy weight loss.

Below are few options to make progression in the cardiovascular exercise:
1) Increase the Speed
When you increase the speed, you will increase the intensity of the cardiovascular exercise.  It is better if you invest a heart rate monitor besides other exercise equipments so that you will know when it is the time to adjust your speed when you do any cardiovascular exercise, whether a walk outside or on a treadmill, or the revolutions per minute on a bike, or elliptical trainer.  If you do not have one, then you can take a manual heart rate.

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Our diet habit and lifestyles lead to our current body weight and fats situation, and body fats always go hand in hand with obesity.  It is normal for obese people to have high percentage of body fats.  Surprisingly, some people with normal BMI or slightly overweight also have alarming body fats percentage.

Being overweight always leads to chronic diseases especially cardiovascular issues.  In fact, every pound of your body fat contains about 5 thousands feet of blood vessels.  If you have 12 extra pounds of fats, your heart will be burdened.  It will have to propel blood through some 20 extra miles of blood vessels every 5th of a second.  This means the amount of extra strain put on our heart and the circulatory system will eventually cause you some form of diseases such as high blood pressure and heart disease as time goes by.

Why a person has overweight and high body fats percentage issue? Does it due to fats we consume daily in our diet? If this is the case, can we stop taking fats in our daily diet?  Is that working to reduce our weight and body fats?

Why We Minimize Fats Intake in Diet?
Always remember this weight loss concept for healthy weight loss purpose:
Calories Consumed > Calories Expended  = Body Weight Increase
Calories Consumed < Calories Expended  = Body Weight Decrease

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People tend to be stressed and lead to overeating when they are in a program for weight loss. This is because stress causes production of stress hormone, cortisol. When it is at high lever, it triggers signaling mechanisms within the brain to increase our appetite and we end out overeating, especially craving for carbohydrates and fats. Read more weight loss tips articles and you will understand more about you and your body weight.

Stress brought on by dieting is added to the personal and work life stresses that we face every day, often resulting in a vicious cycle of increased stress and increased food intake or overeating. You cannot succeed in a healthy weight loss program if you keep on overeating, right? If you tend to overeat in response to workplace or personal stress ordieting, you may find following tips do help in managing stress-related overeating:

1. Practice Waiting

Always postpone your instant gratification when hunger hits. Tell yourself you will wait 10 to 30 minutes before you eat. Meanwhile you can drink a cup of plain warm water to avoid chances of overeating. If your cravings are only stress-related, they will disappear most of the time when you allow yourself to become distracted.

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