And as a result, you may find yourself very out of breath or tired as your
body strives to meet this increased demand. Naturally, of course,
catabolism will be involved, and your body metabolism will increase.
But over time, say a month or so, your body will simply become more
efficient. It will have become stronger, and will be able to supply your
energy needs much more efficiently; you may not even break a sweat!
What’s happened here is that your health has improved; your body has to
work less hard to provide you with your energy needs.
Ironically, this can actually obscure your metabolism-boosting efforts;
because, as you know, you want to tell your body to start the catabolism
process. But if your body is efficiently working, it won’t really dig into its
reserves (e.g. fat cells) in order to provide you with the energy that you
need.
So the trick is to keep variety in your workouts. Many people choose to
cross-train for this very reason. It not only targets different muscle
groups, but it keeps your body from finding a groove whereby it tried to
help you by slowing down metabolism.
Remember: your body doesn’t read books like this; it doesn’t need to, and
it doesn’t care.
It has no clue that a speedier metabolism is “good” or “bad”. Now, as far
as you and I are concerned, we know that a speedy metabolism is a good
thing in our weight loss efforts.