The key to any successful weight loss program is boosting your metabolism, which is your body fat internal burning mechanism.
1) Boosting Metabolism through Exercises
There are two types of exercises that can help in boosting metabolism: Aerobic and strength exercise.
Aerobic or cardio exercise is one of the exercises that can help in boosting your metabolism. But more important is it helps forming a good base for a healthy lifestyle. In a long run, doing aerobic exercise regularly will strengthen your heart, lungs, and improve the whole cardiovascular system and thus reduce the risk for chronic deceases such as diabetes, high blood pressure etc.
Strength exercise or weight training is the most important exercise in helping boosting metabolism. The reason is simple. We can build lean muscle through strength exercise. Recent study shown that 1kg of lean muscle in your body can burn 16 to 23 calories, while 1kg of body fat can burn only 1 to 1.4 calories. By increasing 3kg of lean muscle in your body, we can have extra 60 calories burned daily or 21900 calories burned in a year. This means your body weight can be reduced by 2.8kg in a year time by just increasing your lean muscle by 3kg. Isn’t it wonderful?