The Weight Loss Motivation Bible : Sustainable Fat Loss Carolyn Hansen The Weight Loss Motivation System | Page 22

Moreover, if you regularly exercise this way your body will acclimate itself
to the process and ensure that your muscles are adequately stocked with
glucogen so that your body will not be required to tap into your reserves
of body fat despite the fact that you stick to your workout schedule
almost religiously.
I’ve had personal clients come to me and vent their frustrations, exasperated
that their body weight has barely budged despite almost a decades worth
of stationary cycling or treadmill use. None of this surprises me of course
because although I fell into the same trap in my youth while attempting
desperately to get my body fat percentage down to single digits in preparation
for bodybuilding contests, I learned a long time ago that true metabolic
exercising—the kind that raises the metabolism and forces your body to
burn fat all day long—requires an entirely different approach to putting
your long, torturously boring hours in the gym.
Add Muscle To Build The Metabolic Furnace
Instead of low-impact aerobic activity, the path to an increased metabolic
rate involves strength training. In other words, the kind of activity that
builds lean muscle. I know what you are probably thinking. Why would you
want to add muscle to your frame when you are already carrying around
extra pounds?
The answer is that muscle tissue is active tissue. It requires fuel to do its
work. Even when it is not flexing it needs to burn fuel to keep warm and be
ever ready to perform when called upon at a moment’s notice. Fat tissue,
on the other hand, has a much lower capacity to keep itself warm and can
perform no action that expends energy through moving mass around (which
muscles do wonderfully).
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