Exercises to lose weight are every bit as important as following a healthy, reduced calorie diet. Many times however, our schedules are so hectic that it is hard to fit in the recommended full hour every day for exercise. So are there easy exercises to lose weight that do not take an hour to do every day, yet provide real results? Yes, there are exercises out there that are easy to do, and do not take a lot of time and really work!
There are basically two types of exercises, strength training and aerobic exercise. All exercises fall within the range of one of these types and each type of exercise works differently with the body to contribute to overall weight loss and toning. Aerobic exercises burn fat and calories while strength training tones the body while increasing the speed of your resting metabolic rate. It is important to fit both types of exercises into your work out routines for optimal weight loss.
Exercises to lose weight quickly contain both aspects of exercises in one. Exercises such as step aerobics are great way to increase your heart beat (aerobic activity) while toning your body. Step aerobics target trouble areas such as legs hips and thighs and can burn up to 800 calories in an hour. This means that even if you do as little as one twenty minute session per day, every other day, and you can burn over 1000 calories per week all while gaining muscle.
Walking is another excellent way to burn calories while toning your lower body. Walking can burn up to 500 calories per hour (depending on how fast you are going) and tones the calves, hips and buttocks muscles. Add a deliberate arm movement while walking and you can also help to tone your upper body.
If you can not find ways of exercising in traditional ways because you are stuck in an office all day, doing office exercises to lose weight can help as well. Take a five or ten minute break a couple of times per day and climb up and down office steps non-stop. You will increase your heart rate while adding muscle tone to your lower body. Or, try standing in front of a chair without wheels and place your arms behind you grabbing on to the arms of the chair. “Dip” your body downward until you are almost setting in the chair and use your body weight to push yourself back up. This is a great way of toning your upper body while in your cubical or office.
There are plenty of ways to find exercises to lose weight that do not create a hassle in your every day life. If you constantly strive to find new ways to fit even small amounts of exercise into your routine, you will almost definitely see results within just a few short weeks. Not only will you start to look better, you will find that you have more energy and you will feel healthier too!
Exercise instructor, counting down to 3
Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was It was published in an undated (Jan 2010) Squidoo blog titled “Fastest Way to Lose Weight.” And it was published as an illustration in an undated (Jan 2010) Squidoo blog titled “Free Printable Exercise Log – Get in Shape for 2010!” It was also published in a Feb 15, 2010 Body-Building Supplements. blog with the same title as the caption that I used for this Flickr page. And it was published in a Mar 27, 2010 Health Knowledge blog with the same title as the caption that I used for this Flickr page.
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Jan 12, 2011 blog titled “Mancarea si exercitiile: 5 sfaturi pentru a fi eficienti.”
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For the past several years, my family has spent a week, in early January, at the Club Med village in Punta Cana, on the southwestern shore of the Dominican Republic. (Our first visit to Club Med was back in 1985, and some photos of last year’s trip can be seen here.)
This year’s visit coincided with the awful earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti — about 260 miles away, on the eastern coast of the island of Hispaniola. From what I understand, the fault line went straight west, in our direction, but then cut south at approximately the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In any case, none of the vacationers at Club Med felt even the slightest tremor; we got all of our news of the ensuing events just like everyone else, by watching CNN. But because we expected the capitol city of Santo Domingo to be chaotic and congested with relief efforts, I decided to skip a daylong trip that I had tentatively planned to photograph the churches and markets of what turns out to be the oldest city in the Western hemisphere (settled in 1497 by Christopher Columbus’ brother).
In recent years, most of my photographic efforts have focused on the vacationers who fill the beaches and pool — especially the children, who come from Canada, France, Venezuela, and various other parts of the world besides the United States. So I decided to focus on something else this year, and … well, you can judge the results for yourself…
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