The secret to a great fat burning workout

Many people this time of year would love to burn more fat and the best way to do this is through a great fat burning workout. There are three kinds of workouts. There si a weight lifting workout where you are slowly conserving energy and trying to gain muscle. There is a cardio workout where you are burning all of the glycogen in your muscles and hopefully some fat as well and there is a Circuit training workout that will help you burn fat really quickly while gaining some muscle at the same time.

To do a great fat burning workout you will want ot geta bit of a warmup first by doing 5 or 10 minutes of cardio. You can warmup with either a bike or treadmill or even an elliptical trainer.

After you are well warmed up you can get to the point of starting your fat buring workout. The key to the fat burning workout is both to use different mucles to failure and to not rest between sets. Here are the exercises you can try to start with

Bench press - sets of 10 repetitions

Military press (overhead presses) - sets of 10 repetitions

Lat pulldowns - sets of 10 repetitions

Leg Presses - sets of 10 repetitions

Leg Curls - sets of 10 repetitions

Bicep curls – sets of 10 repetitions

Tricep extensions – sets of 10 repetitions

To do these you are going to try to work all of these together as a 10-15 minutes set and when you are finished you will be beat. This takes a lot out of you because you are working your whole body with almost no rest for yourself.

Once you have recovered for a couple of minutes do the whole set again. In fact a workout of circuit training like this will involve doing three full sets like this and will probably take about 45 minutes.

If you dare to do this kind of fat burning workout you will leave the gym feeling a lot shakey and veery sick. It is a tough workout but you will get a lot out of it so it is really worth it.

Here are some tips for getting the most out of this fat burning workout.

Drink lots of water – you will dehydrate quickly and it is a good idea to kepp the water flowing.

Try different exercises as you get used to this – Muscle confusion os the key to getting circuit training to work. If you are changing your exercises then your body will not get used to the workout and you will continue to lose weight trying this method

Compound exercises are important – Exercises like bench presses, military presses, lat pulldowns, and leg presses are used in my sample workout because they use more than one muscle group. Compound exercises tend to have primary muscles and secondary muscles. We are only counting the primary muscles like chest back or shoulders but these secondary muscles like biceps and triceps are getting a great workout as well.

Make sure that you are doing the sets in a very controlled pattern and the repetitions are slow. Because you are not giving yourself any long breaks between sets of exercises does not mean that you should rush your repetitions, you want to do nice clean repetitions with no cheating at all, even when you are tired

Finally chart your progress. As you do this kind of workout you will find that you are getting stronger quikly even though you are focusing on doing the exercises quickly.

If you want to learn more about fat loss workouts there is the Turbulence Training System as well as a book I consider the best fitness book