Both physical activity and exercise are essential to a healthy lifestyle.

It's a lifelong process!
To achieve permanent fat loss, you need to activate and build your lean muscle tissue - and maintain it throughout your life.

Two types of Exercise
There are two major types of exercise your body needs for permanent fat-loss results: weight training and cardiovascular training. Stretching and other types of training (martial arts, yoga, etc...) are also important additions for cross-training.

Weight Training
Weight training strengthens the muscles and maintains or increases muscle tissue. One of the biggest benefits of weight training is that you "wake up" the muscle cells. This creates more metabolically active tissue and increases your body's ability to burn calories. Weight training also strengthens the muscles around your bones, making you less prone to injury.

Research shows that just three weight training sessions a week can help you burn 150 more calories a day - enough to shed 16 pounds of body fat a year.

Cardiovasular Training
This strenthens the heart and improves the efficiency of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Weight bearing cardiovascular exercises (brisk walking, running, dancing, stair climbing, etc...) can help you keep fit and promote bone mass. It also helps you lose fat.

For Beginners
Go slowly at first. Train with weights three times a week, starting with lighter weights and higher repetitions. Cardiovascular training should be performed four to five times a week for twenty minutes a day. As you become more fit, increase your intensity and weights. Click here to download a 12-Week Beginner's Exercise Program.