How to Instantly Speed Up Your Metabolism
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When a person finishes a typical low intensity aerobic workout, the workout is over and all the benefit to be gained has already been received. On the other hand, when a person finishes a properly designed resistance training workout, their body’s metabolism is running at a much faster pace, as it tries to catch up after the intense activity it has just been put through.
This increased metabolic rate can be dramatic and can last anywhere from several hours to a couple of days. The reason this happens after your workout is that this kind of resistance training requires your body to heavily utilize your anaerobic energy system, specifically your stored muscle glycogen. This is your most inefficient energy system (meaning that your body has to burn more calories in order to operate within this system).
After the workout, your body has just had its glycogen stores largely depleted and it sets out to replace them as quickly as possible. It frantically takes the food that you eat and uses it to refill its glycogen stores, in preparation for the next time you force it into the glycogen energy phase. You are training it to expect your workouts and thus store and conserve muscle glycogen in the meantime. Not only that, but your body is now back to its normal daily activity which probably consists mostly of low intensity activities like sitting at a desk, driving a car, walking, etc.
Because you are partaking in low intensity activities your body is now operating in the aerobic phase, which means that a higher percentage of energy burned will be coming from fat. However, your metabolic rate is now dramatically faster because of your resistance training workout. Combine the fact that you are in the aerobic energy zone (which primarily uses fat for your energy needs) and the fact that you are constantly burning more calories because your workout has increased you metabolic rate, and you have become a fat burning machine!
Whether you are running errands or sitting on the couch watching TV, your body is burning more calories than it would have been had you done a typical “fat loss” (low intensity) cardio session. Of course the more active you are throughout the rest of the day, the more you will benefit from your new metabolism, but even if you are not active, you have still increased your resting metabolic rate. Because of this, resistance training should be considered the foundational base of any training program that seeks to achieve a physical appearance goal whether it be fat loss, muscle gain, or anything in between.
The icing on the cake is the fact that a good weight-training program stimulates the body’s production of growth hormone, which further increases the body’s preference for burning bodyfat as energy. Growth hormone puts your body in a fat burning, muscle maintaining, anti-aging state. Eating according to the instructions in the diet manual will further stimulate your body’s natural growth hormone production, enabling you to keep its levels naturally optimized nearly 24 hours a day.
So as a result of performing a properly designed weight workout instead of a traditional cardio workout, you have:
This increased metabolic rate can be dramatic and can last anywhere from several hours to a couple of days. The reason this happens after your workout is that this kind of resistance training requires your body to heavily utilize your anaerobic energy system, specifically your stored muscle glycogen. This is your most inefficient energy system (meaning that your body has to burn more calories in order to operate within this system).
After the workout, your body has just had its glycogen stores largely depleted and it sets out to replace them as quickly as possible. It frantically takes the food that you eat and uses it to refill its glycogen stores, in preparation for the next time you force it into the glycogen energy phase. You are training it to expect your workouts and thus store and conserve muscle glycogen in the meantime. Not only that, but your body is now back to its normal daily activity which probably consists mostly of low intensity activities like sitting at a desk, driving a car, walking, etc.
Because you are partaking in low intensity activities your body is now operating in the aerobic phase, which means that a higher percentage of energy burned will be coming from fat. However, your metabolic rate is now dramatically faster because of your resistance training workout. Combine the fact that you are in the aerobic energy zone (which primarily uses fat for your energy needs) and the fact that you are constantly burning more calories because your workout has increased you metabolic rate, and you have become a fat burning machine!
Whether you are running errands or sitting on the couch watching TV, your body is burning more calories than it would have been had you done a typical “fat loss” (low intensity) cardio session. Of course the more active you are throughout the rest of the day, the more you will benefit from your new metabolism, but even if you are not active, you have still increased your resting metabolic rate. Because of this, resistance training should be considered the foundational base of any training program that seeks to achieve a physical appearance goal whether it be fat loss, muscle gain, or anything in between.
The icing on the cake is the fact that a good weight-training program stimulates the body’s production of growth hormone, which further increases the body’s preference for burning bodyfat as energy. Growth hormone puts your body in a fat burning, muscle maintaining, anti-aging state. Eating according to the instructions in the diet manual will further stimulate your body’s natural growth hormone production, enabling you to keep its levels naturally optimized nearly 24 hours a day.
So as a result of performing a properly designed weight workout instead of a traditional cardio workout, you have:
- Successfully burned more total calories and more fat calories
- Raised the rate at which your body burns energy for at least the next several hours and possibly as long as 48 hours
- Increased the amount of bodyfat burned for the rest of your day regardless of your activity level the rest of the day.
- Increased your body’s natural production of growth hormone, unleashing its amazing anti-aging and fat burning capabilities.