You may start your weight loss exercise right away if you are under 35 and have no any health problems.  Anyway, if you have high blood pressure, smoke, over 35, and are overweight, please consult your doctor first before jump into any weight loss exercise to lose weight.  Besides, it will most helpful to you if you understand well about weight loss concept before any program for weight loss.

Before you start any weight loss exercise in any program for weight loss, the following tests could be held to assist in ruling your heart disease, uncovering muscular or skeletal problems, determining your starting fitness level, and monitoring your heart function while you exercise.

Medical consultation
This includes questions about smoking, stress, and fitness.  You will be asked about any heart disease in you or your family.  Please bear in mind to bring up any problems you have had with your feet, ankles, knees, hips, or back.  After understanding your medical history, your schedule and method for weight loss exercise could be adjusted to meet your individual needs.

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A fitness evaluation is important if you want to start a program for weight loss. This is because it can help determining more precisely your present fitness level and help you establish clear fitness goals.

Below are some fitness evaluations generally carried by people before start a fitness program.

Body composition test
This fitness evaluation tells the percentage of fat to bone and lean muscle mass in your body.  In a hydrostatic tank, you exhale as much breath as possible and are weighed underwater.  Because fat floats and bone and lean muscle do not, the more fat you have the less you weigh underwater.  This fitness evaluation helps determining your ideal body weight and how much fat you might need to lose to reach that weight.  Anyway, you may use body fat analyzer as alternative way to know your body fat and lean muscle mass percentage.

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Do you know what it is like to be on a diet rollercoaster – you try one diet after another, losing weight, and gain it right back.  It is time to stop dieting forever if you really serious about losing weight.  Why? This is because diets only change what you eat, they do not change your habits that help you losing weight and keep it off forever.

When you eat less than 1000 calories or below your BMR level per day, your body will think you are under starving and slower your metabolism accordingly to conserve your body fat.  As consequences, your body weight will be bounced back, even heavier than before when you take back normal consumption of food.  As such, you will not get optimal losing weight results in the program for weight loss.

Losing weight through diet is not working in the long run in any program for weight loss.  Lean muscle tissue is so important for people who want to have good results in losing weight as lean muscle burns 16 times more calories than body fat.  However, our lean muscle tissue will decrease as we age, and thus diminish our metabolism.  When you diet, it might turn out you lose more lean muscle tissue and worsen the condition.  Please have further information of benefits of strength training if you want to preserve your lean muscle tissue.

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It is normal for people to do cardiovascular exercise, rather than strength training if they want to lose weight through exercise in any program for weight loss.  There are not many people know that only strength training can really help in building lean muscle and thus boost your metabolism and enable calories burning 24 hours a day.

Of course cardiovascular exercise is very important to maintain our overall health, and we should perform it regularly.  Anyhow, strength training is much more effective to be performed for losing body fat purpose.  Please have a look at benefits of strength training article if you would like to know more about it.

If you are just about to know regarding strength training, here are 6 common questions and misconceptions about it that might help you:

1) Will I bulk up?

This is a commonly asked question especially for the women who want to perform strength training.  The answer is “no”.  The potential of muscle-building for men is enhanced by the presence of testosterone.  However, it is not so easy to become bulky even with the testosterone.  It is more clearly that women have very little opportunity bulking up as they do not enjoy the benefit of similar testosterone levels.

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