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May 02 2008

Increase Your Overall Metabolism

Published by lroeder at 1:56 am under All Posts, Exercise Edit This

Strength training, I don’t mean using barbells and big weights, just toning and strengthening your muscles, is the best way to make sure your metabolism goes up and stays there all day long. You don’t need big muscles, just tones muscles to do the job. When you do some basic strength training you build muscle. Muscle needs more calories to live, therefore you constantly burn more calories, even when you’re doing nothing at all.

You don’t need big weights and barbells to do strength training. Just you. Some examples of strength training are crunches, leg lifts, squats and push ups. Walking up steps is good for strength training, builds up your leg muscles and can be done slow to tone more of the muscle, or fast to get some aerobic benefit out of it too.

If you want to boost your strength training a little you can get some wearable weights and put them on your arms and legs when you do your strength training routine. More muscle means more calories burning all the time.

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