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THE BETA SWITCH: THE NEW STUBBORN FAT SOLUTION FOR WOMEN
Resistance training increases lean muscle, thereby positively influencing metabolism and reducing fat stores.
Next, and equally important, for fat to be BURNED away permanently, it must first be MOBILIZED out of your fat cells.
Research suggests that it’ s particularly difficult to mobilize the fat from stubborn fat cells as opposed to other areas of the body. It’ s also been shown that a certain type of training is ideal to break down fat and get it primed and ready for burning – high intensity training.
High intensity training( whether cardio or resistance) is very popular these days and it’ s the type of training that will mobilize the fat from your fat cells and start it circulating in your blood ready to be burned off.
Once the fat has been mobilized, another step is required to be sure the fat is burned. If you do your high intensity training and stop there, it is more likely to simply be shuttled back into the cells for storage again.( That’ s the reesterification we talked about earlier.)
So, to actually get rid of stubborn fat, you need to add something else.
And this is where the much bad-mouthed go-slow cardio comes into play. Despite the bad rap it’ s been getting of late, adding strategically placed sessions of steady state cardio will do more for your stubborn fat stores that you’ ve ever imagined!
Finally, if you don’ t have a tight, trim tush, you may be shocked to discover that it can be caused by using the WRONG muscles when you exercise!
Pay special attention and make sure you activate your gluteal( butt) muscles when performing lower body exercises. You do that by incorporating some simple, yet little known, pre-exercise techniques to your training regime. If you don’ t activate the right muscles, you’ ll NEVER have a beautiful butt and toned thighs.
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