Secrets for Losing Weight Fast

It seems that everyone is always asking me what the best ab workouts are to get a flatter stomach. One of the biggest misconceptions I deal with daily as a fitness professional is that almost everyone has varying degrees of excess body fat in the abdominal region, and is looking for the best way to burn off that extra stomach fat.

The problem is that most people are searching for the wrong exercises and workout types to lose stubborn belly fat. Most people are searching for some miraculous combination of abs exercises combined into the best ab workout ever invented that will burn off their belly fat faster than you can read this article.

Unfortunately, ab-specific workouts do NOT burn fat off of your belly. They only tone and strengthen the underlying abdominal muscles. What you really need to focus on is a full body strategic workout that will cause a much greater metabolic rate increase and fat-burning hormonal response from your training program as a whole.

In addition, simply doing cardiovascular workouts will not necessarily create the greatest metabolic response or hormonal response either. What you really need is a much more rounded training program that focuses on training the entire body with resistance training and multi-joint exercises in a higher intensity fashion.

This type of high intensity full body training combined with a healthy balanced diet full of nutrient density on a regular basis, is the real key secret to losing the extra stomach fat that covers up the abs. This is a much better plan of attack than just trying to do ab workouts and hoping that just doing a bunch of ab exercises like crunches and leg raises are going to make you lose your belly fat.

The amazing thing is that the majority of the population still believes that in order to get rid of belly fat, you need to do ab workouts every day using hundreds of reps. I see people giving this type of erroneous advice every day on all of the fitness forums. Please do not waste your time with this type of advice!

Now before you say “how can an abs expert not recommend abdominal exercises”, realize that I do strongly believe that a certain amount of ab-specific exercises mixed into your routines are beneficial. Ab exercises will help you strengthen and tone the abdominal muscles and are useful for other purposes such as a healthy back and posture when done correctly. But the fact remains that ab exercises are not necessary for fat loss.

A much smarter full body resistance training routine and a clean healthy balanced diet are the most important factors. Many of the full body exercises also indirectly work the abdominals and core due to the stabilization required in some of the more difficult variations.

Mike Geary
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/ab-workouts-do-not-cause-stomach-fat-loss-81080.html

Burpees are fun, even though they tend to make me a little dizzy sometimes. You need to take the following tips into consideration when wanting to do burpees for fat loss.

Burpees can be great for fat loss because in the end they are just another form of aerobic exercise.

If you’re reading this and wonder what the heck is a burpee, here is the basic routine.

1. You start in a squat position with your hands on the ground in front of you.

2. Then you kick your feet backwards to a push-up position.

3. You then immediately return your feet to their original squat position.

4. Without pause, you then leap up as high as you can from the squat position.

You are using a lot of muscles with you going down to the ground, kicking your feet back, and then leaping into the air.

More importantly, you are employing your quads and butt muscles that make up a large percentage of your muscle mass.

That exercise increases your heart rate and causes your body to burn calories so that it can supply energy to those muscles.

When doing burpees for fat loss you need to keep doing them for between 12 to 20 minutes.

Your body only really kicks into fat burn mode after roughly ten to twelve minutes of exercise.

Since burpees are quite strenuous activity, close monitor how you feel after a few minutes. Stop immediately if you feel light-headed or experience any discomfort or pain.

Doing burpees for longer than 20 minutes at a time could also put your knees at risk. You put a lot of strain on your knees when you leap up into the air and land back on your feet.

Like any aerobic exercise, burpees can be great for fat loss as long as you do them sensibly and do them regularly.

Tisha Diaz
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/doing-burpees-for-fat-loss-123556.html

Content:

This article seeks to give you a solid knowledge base regarding fat loss for beginners, no matter what your previous experience at weight loss.

Fist thing you do is take positive action!

Everybody who wishes to get leaner muscle should read this article. Yes, I know it says “Fat loss for beginners,” but sometimes we “experts” overlook what we once knew or we don’t practice what we now know. If you’re a beginner, this will be an introduction. If you’re experienced, let this be a review for you..

There are so many opinions about how to reduce your body fat that many people end up completely mystified and they don’t do a thing about it!

They’ve read about 27 methods to diet, 34 mehods to do cardio, 101 methods to lift weights and 79 supplements to take. But they still don’t know how to begin.

You fill your head with so much information it feels like it’s going to explode, but then you never do something about it. You’re like a deer in headlights. Sound familiar? This can be called the “paralysis by analysis” syndrome.

Actually, down fat is not that complicated. You don’t must a PhD in training physiology to figure out that any kind of a workout is better than not working out . You don’t have to be a genius in nutritional biochemistry to analysis that an apple is better than ice cream and cookies. Becoming lean is simple. Working out. Eat better foods. Eat smaller portions. Isn’t this stuff just common sense? Didn’t your mother tell you this?

So what’s keeping you from getting started?

If you’re like most people, time and laziness is keeping you from losing weight. Or, you’re so afraid of doing something wrong, you decide to do nothing rather than make a mistake or look foolish.

What you must understand is that people who accomplish much and people who accomplish little BOTH have fears of some kind. The difference between the two is that the latter feels the fear and lets it immobilize them. The former feels the fear and does it anyway.

You can’t let the fear of failure sto you from accomplishing your goals.

Start the process. You can always fine-tune your program as you go. Genuinely, it’s better to aim and then fire, but its better to fire and then adjust your aim later than not to fire at all.

jeffrey wolf
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/fat-loss-for-beginners-part-1-283037.html

Excess body fat is an epidemic sweeping the US and much of the world. It seems everyone wants to lose weight and reduce the amount fat on their bodies. There are dozens of different plans available for doing that. But before you choose a plan to follow, you should give a few minutes thought to the different approaches they can take. Here are the 3 top approaches to fat loss. See which approach appeals to you, then pick a plan that uses that approach to get the best results.

The first approach is diet-only. That is, it is all about losing fat through changing the way you eat. This is the easiest approach for many people since it doesn’t require exercise or major lifestyle changes. In the beginning, this approach was very simple: eat less. Unfortunately, it turned out that eating less isn’t usually that effective.

So the diet-only approach has evolved to include all sorts of diets: low-fat ones, low-carb ones, calorie shifting ones, and so on. Its fair to say that each of these is effective for some people. But none of them seems to be effective for everyone.

The second approach combines diet with exercise and sometimes other lifestyle changes. They are generally more effective than diet-only approaches, since the exercise portion of the program causes you to burn more calories and perhaps build more muscle. In addition, lifestyle changes like reducing stress and getting more sleep are known to reduce your body’s tendency to store calories as fat.

While this second approach is generally more effective, it has a drawback. It is a lot more work, literally. Exercise means finding time and energy to work out. Lifestyle changes require effort and getting out of your settled routine. So the combined approach is a lot harder for people to stick with, even if it is more effective.

That brings us to the third approach. For many, the biggest thing keeping them from losing fat is not that they don’t know how, or don’t have a good plan to follow. It is a lack of motivation and determination to burn that fat. Finding ways to develop a mind set that ensures fat loss success is the third approach.

We know that our thoughts and attitudes affect our body. Think positive thoughts and you start to feel happier and more energetic. Think negative, defeatist thoughts and you become tired and withdrawn. Become absolutely convinced that you are going to lose that gut and your body tries to make it happen. This makes anything else you do to lose fat more effective.

So those are the three approaches. Choose the diet-only approach when exercise and more comprehensive changes to your life don’t fit in. Choose the second approach (diet plus exercise plus lifestyle changes) when you are really committed to losing the fat no matter what, and you are physically able to work out. Choose the third approach (developing a fat-loss mindset) when you are looking to get better results from what you’re already doing to cut the fat.

Bill Mann
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/3-top-approaches-to-fat-loss-523280.html

Product Name: Lipo 6Manufacturer: Nutrex Research (US)

RRP: £39.99

Recommended Dosage: 2-3 Capsules, twice a day (Fat Loss)

Container Size: 120 Capsules
Number of Servings per Container: 40-60

Cost for 4 Weeks of Use**: £37.32 to £55.99

Manufacturers Principal Claims:
“LIPO-6 by Nutrex is the first and only fat-burner that utilizes maximum strength liquid capsules for superior absorption and unprecedented results”

Product Description:

Nutrex Lipo 6 is a thermogenic fat loss supplement, thyroid stimulator and energy supplement. The supplement is in capsule form, with the ingredients delivered in liquid form.

Ingredient Profile:

Synephrine HCL 20mg: Synephrine is a drug used primarily fat loss, although the effectiveness is debated it is very popular and has been used as an alternative to ephedrine (a substance with a history of controversy). Synephrine is derived primarily from the fruit of a small citrus tree.

Synthetic 99% Guggulsterones Z&E 1:1 20mg: Herbal Guggulsterones are formed from the extract from a tree, traditionally Grown in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Guggul is the tree which produces a resinous sap, this has been used for hundreds of years in traditional Indian medicine. In Modern medicine this sap is standardised for the active components Z and E guggulsterones. Guggulsterones have been shown to stimulate the thyroid gland, converting T4 into T3. The Guggulsterones included in Lipo 6 are synthetic, this should allow for greater purity and a more accurate dosage.

Yohimbe HCL 3mg: Yohimbine is a selective competitive alpha2-adrenergic receptor antagonist. In many countries it is a prescription drug and has a variety of uses for treatment of erectile dysfunction, weight loss, treatment of low blood pressure and to dilate the pupil of the eye. It is also claimed to be an aphrodisiac. It is used in weight loss supplements as it increases noradrenaline (norepinephrine) levels, one of the body’s lipolytic (meaning to disintegrate fat) hormones.

Caffeine Anhydrous USP 200mg: Caffeine acts as a stimulant and thermogenic in humans, and is commonly taken to boost energy or mental concentration. It will stimulate the central nervous system and the metabolism. Once metabolised caffeine can increase lipolysis in the body. Caffeine may also increase the effectiveness of other substances such as ephedrine or Yohimbe, and was incredibly popular in the commonly used ECA stack (ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin).

Bioperine 5mg: Derived from the fruit of the piper nigrum plant (black pepper) or piper longum (long pepper). It is believed to have thermogenic properties. Supplementation of piperidine enhances the bioavailability of various nutrients, including beta-carotene, curcumin, selenium, pyridoxine and coenzyme Q10.

Product Uses:

Fat Loss (Cutting), Energy Enhancement

Manufacturers Warnings:

Not for use by pregnant or nursing women. Seek the advice of a health care professional if your have any medical condition. Reduce or discontinue use if your experience tremors, nervousness, sleeplessness, headache or heart palpitations.

Potential Side Effects:

(Please Note this list may not be exhaustive) Increased Heart Rate, Sweating, Nervousness, Tremor, Irritability, headache, dizziness and flushing, Peptic Ulcers, Erosive Esophagitis, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, sleeplessness, dizziness, blurred vision, drowsiness, dry mouth, increased urination, loss of appetite, nausea and stomachaches

* At Manufacturers’ recommended dosage
** Based on RRP

Russell Davies
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/analysis-of-nutrex-lipo-6-fat-loss-supplement-120841.html

As a Sydney personal trainer and boot camp instructor I hear a lot of the same questions over and over, especially about fat loss – and I find that almost all of the people who ask me these questions are making the same mistakes.

 

Are you having a hard time losing those last couple of kilos? Do those last little areas of excess fat seem intractable?

 

Here are a few of the most common mistakes I’ve seen people make about fat loss, along with the solutions to these mistakes.

 

1. Failing to train consistently. The object of training for fat loss is to increase your metabolism. The higher your metabolic rate, the more calories you’ll burn off naturally. Your metabolism will not increase as much as you would like if you fail to train regularly. Train at least three times per week.

 

2. Not keeping track of your caloric intake. In order to lose weight, you have to burn off more calories than you take in. There is no training which can compensate for an unhealthy diet. Keep an eye on how many calories you are taking in – otherwise, you’ll have no idea when you are working out enough to have an effect on your weight. Keep a log if necessary.

 

3. Drinking too much. Alcoholic beverages are full of empty calories. While you can have an occasional beer, it is important to understand exactly how many calories you are taking in this way – also, your body cannot burn fat while metabolizing alcohol! You should cut down or avoid alcohol altogether if you’re trying to lose fat.

 

1 glass of wine (average): 130 Calories

 

Regular beer: 150 Calories

 

Pre-Mixed Smirnoff Raw, (all flavors): 230 Calorie

 

4. Not varying your exercise routine. When you hit a plateau, it is often because you need to switch up your workouts. Change your routine every six workouts. Once you’ve done the same exercise 6 times in a row, you should either:

 

a) Change the exercise

 

b) Change the reps

 

c) Change the sets

 

d) Change the tempo (lifting speed)

 

5. Giving up. Weight loss is not something which can be done overnight. You need to be patient and determined if you want to be successful. You’ll start to notice a difference after a few weeks or so –let this be your motivation to keep going. Above all, stick with it!

 

6. Spot reduction. I often hear people say “I’m feeling fat around my thighs – time for squats!” This kind of spot reduction of fat does not work, plain and simple. Your body just doesn’t work that way.

 

If you avoid these six mistakes in your weight loss program, I can promise you that you’ll start to see better results in less time.

 

Train Hard!

 

Dan Clay.

 

Dan Clay
http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/sydney-personal-trainer-shares-6-fat-loss-mistakes-752029.html

When I tell you about this newly discovered secret, you’re going to be so upset that you may even want to call your attorney. This secret is so powerful that the information should be given out at all Doctor’s offices and medical facilities.

I discovered this secret while searching the internet for a diet plan that would REALLY work for me. I’ve tried many different diet plans for fat loss and none of them do what I really want. What I really, really want is to be able to eat whatever I want, whenever I want and not worry about gaining weight.

After my struggle to lose weight and keep it off over the last several years I was forced to give up on all of the popular diet and exercise programs because I finally found the real reason why none of those programs ever work.

Through my research, I discovered an incredible female doctor from Arizona who has exposed a revolutionary breakthrough so powerful that all the diet and drug company gurus are out to shut her up.

You see, Dr Suzanne Gudakunst’s no diet fat loss plan could possibly put hundreds of diet and health professionals out of business.

Dr Suzanne discovered this secret a few years ago while she was focusing her studies on the colon and digestive system and how they affected nutritional absorption rates. She came to some exciting conclusions after conducting a few tests and studies of her own. She expanded her research and came up with this amazing discovery.

Doctor Gudakunst has gone on to correctly identify the correlation between plaque and parasites in the digestive tract and cases of obesity.

After six long years of research and study, this Arizona doctor was able to make available several all-natural methods for removing these dangerous plaques and digestive parasites. Her methods were used for some of the worse cases of obesity. These people were in eminent danger of losing their life; the results were 100% success.

She then went on to tailor her methods to see if the same results applied to those who were not obese but were just like me; a little overweight. Could a no diet fat loss plan be successful on someone like me? She found that her methods were just as productive in less severe cases with a 100% success rate.

Her treatment is so effective and powerful that it reverses some serious life threatening diseases. Diabetes, cancer and a multitude of other health problems and illnesses are linked to obesity.

Doctor Suzanne worked almost exclusively with patients on whom traditional medicine had given up. They had been told things like they only had a few months or years left to live. The ones who were not terminally ill were still told by their physicians that a normal life was just not possible. Once they used Doctor Suzanne’s treatments, they saw amazing results, completely opposite to what conventional medicine had told them.

There is nothing difficult about Dr Suzanne Gudakunst’s secret. You will not have to do any exercising or change the way you currently eat. I can tell you that after using Dr. Suzanne’s secret, I’ve lost more in one month than all of the other diet and exercise programs put together – and I feel incredibly energetic now. This has truly made a difference in my life.

The fact is the secret is merely a compilation of things already present in nature. The secret to this no diet fat loss program is simply a mixture of protective herbs, extracts and organic material that are found throughout our world. The key is in the precise combinations that create a solution to the world’s biggest problem of obesity and all the nasty little diseases and complications that come with it.

No matter how much weight you need to lose, ten pounds or a hundred you can do it thanks to Dr. Suzanne.

Obesity is an epidemic that is sweeping our nation and the whole world as 40% of the population is now believed to be obese.

Many experts were saying that corporate giants in the diet and drug industry would never allow the discovery of something like this to get released to the general public. They said this secret discovery will get swept under the carpet just like when they discovered that cars could go hundreds of miles on a gallon of gas.

There is no guarantee on how long this no diet weight loss will continue to be available. The huge drug companies as well as the diet food manufacturing industries are quickly trying to put a lid on Doctor Gudakunst’s secret.

Because Dr. Gudakunst’s secret worked so well for me, I recommend that you go to her website and check it out for yourself. Be aware though that there are some shocking graphics and information there. I was really ticked at the Drug and Diet Companies after I read all of the information she gave out.

Do not pass up the success stories that are posted at that site. Many people are having tremendous successes and are only too happy to share their stories. Read what others have to say about the no diet fat loss secret that has changed their lives forever.

My advice is to check out this web site immediately. If the big diet and drug gurus have their way, this secret will be gone tomorrow. When a billion dollar diet and drug industry is at stake, this “no diet fat loss secret” might not be around tomorrow.

You can learn a great deal more by visiting the Doctor’s website.

Dr. Gudakunst’s Website.

Gary D. Frazier

No Diet Fat Loss

Gary D. Frazier
http://www.articlesbase.com/diseases-and-conditions-articles/no-diet-fat-loss-discovery-shrinks-diet-food-drug-industries-budgets-while-ridding-people-of-disease-and-sickness-617064.html

Ever wondered why there are so many diets around out there and people are just getting fatter and fatter. We now know that fad and repeat dieting don’t work, so what does!

I have put together 10 fat loss tips below and if followed will make things a lot easier for you on your road to fat loss.

Lets have a look at a few:

Burn Fat: Lift Weights - Muscle determines the speed of your metabolism - the speed of your metabolism depends on how much muscle you have. That’s why men burn fat faster than women… They have more muscle. Women could burn fat faster if they had more muscle.

Women are scared to lift weights because they will get bigger muscles!!

If only this was were the case. Women do not have the hormone levels to build big muscles, however they can replace the muscle tissue lost through years of crazy dieting, irregular eating habits and age.

Yes everybody is losing muscle, every year; every decade because we are getting older, but only people who let their muscles waste away have slower metabolisms as they get older.

Keep your muscles and keep your fat burning machine! The only way to do this is get strong and stay strong.

Toss The Scales - The scales tell you none of the things you need to know about your body and everything you don’t.

They don’t tell you how much fat you have under your skin, they don’t tell you how much skin for that matter. The scales can’t tell you how much fluid is in your body.

What your bones weigh and most importantly, how much muscle you have? However, weighing yourself can turn a perfectly good day into a miserable day?

Don’t let an inanimate, household item determine what kind of day you will have! They are not accurate so throw them away.

Muscle Vs Fat - Muscle weighs two times as much as fat yet takes up half the space. Muscle is responsible for burning fat. Muscle is small when compared with fat. Muscle never hangs off your body in unsightly lumps.

Muscle looks toned, tight, strong and lean. Muscle is tight and hard to the touch and muscle is heavy. Fat is lumpy and soft and flabby, fat takes up a lot of space, fat hangs off your body. Fat is also soft to the touch and does not weigh as much as muscle.

Always Eat Breakfast - Research has concluded that having breakfast is important to kick-start the metabolism for the day, the body slows down whilst sleeping and food first thing in the morning actually awakens the body ready for the rest of the day.

Also try eating more fibre at this time as it helps the digestive system work more effectively and will help keep the blood sugar levels spread evenly throughout the day.

Don’t Cut Back On Calories - Food has a heating effect on the body increasing your metabolic rate; don’t eat less than 1200 calories, as this will throw the body into a starvation mode. Your metabolism will then slow down to conserve the calories that you do have.

Try to avoid fad diets if possible as they restrict or reduce the nutrients flowing to the body, which in turn slows down the metabolic rate.

Eat Small Regular Meals - Eat five or six small meals a day as this will trick the body into thinking that there is an abundance of food and will stop your metabolism from slowing down, keeping your sugar levels at a normal level and this will stop you overeating.

Try eating the majority of your food earlier in the day, as the majority of the calories will be burned up while you are awake and active.

Count Calories - The way to keep track of weight loss is to buy a calorie counter and record your daily calorie intake for a week. Average out your calories for the day and then decrease the calories by 300 - 500 (No More) then gauge what happens.

By decreasing the amount of calories per day to this amount you should start losing weight. Don’t go any lower; check the mirror as well as the scales to judge your progress.

Don’t Repeat Diet - Research shows repeated dieting actually makes it harder to lose weight and easier to put it on because when you dump the diet and return to normal eating habits the drop in metabolic rate caused by the diet means that your old habits actually represent an excess in calories.

Not only do you regain the fat stores just lost, but also you may even gain an extra bit. If you find your weight loss starting to slow or stop over a period of time, increase your walking pace a little or throw in a couple of hills along your route.

Keep Track Of Fats - This may appear difficult to maintain and calculate but it isn’t. On nearly all packaged food these days there is a nutritional label with a fat indicator per 100gms of that particular food.

What your looking for here is a figure below 10 gms and nearing 5 gms would be the ideal. So purchasing and consuming foods around this range you’ll be on your weight loss target.

The Low down On Fats - It is stored in the fat cells of the body. The number of fat cells is estimated to be around 50 billion for the average person. It can be up to 100 billion for the obese person.

Fat cells are like storage tanks of energy to be used for later use. It has been shown that obese people who binge eat may stimulate baby fat cells to sprout to increase the number of fat cells.

Believe me, once you start applying these 10 tips to your everyday weight loss regime you will start to notice the difference in a short period of time.

Gary Matthews
http://www.articlesbase.com/wellness-articles/10-things-you-must-know-about-fat-loss-131214.html

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I co-wrote this target heart rate article with Craig Ballantyne because we want to get the message out to everyone who keeps struggling with this outdated mentality that they must be in some sort of “fat burning zone” if they want to stand any chance of losing body fat with their workouts. We’ll show you why targeting a specific heart rate to be in this so-called fat burning zone is actually the opposite of what you should be focusing on in your workouts if you truly want to get lasting fat loss results.

One of the worst myths in the fitness industry is that you need to maintain a specific heart rate range in the fat burning zone in order to lose fat. But this is simply not true. Unfortunately, this false belief leads people to choose low intensity steady state cardio routines that are ineffective and cause most people a major lack of results from their workouts.

The quicker you get rid of the “target fat burning heart rate = the best workout” mentality, the faster you will actually start to get real results with fat loss and changing the shape of your body for good.

In the Turbulence Training workouts, you actually burn more fat and more total calories when you are OUT of the gym due to the high-intensity and variable intensity nature of the training methods in these programs. This phenomenon is not due to the elevated heart rate you experience during the workout (even though your heart rate will be increased from the supersets and intervals), but rather from the metabolic and hormonal response you achieve from the more effective workout compared to your ineffective “fat burning zone” workout.

Over the last 10 years, scientific research has indicated a couple of very important things to us about exercising for body fat loss. First of all, lifting heavier weights while exercising leads to a higher caloric consumption by the body in the period for about 1-2 days following the workout when compared to lifting light weights with high repetitions. So that’s why 6-8 repetitions per set is better than 12-15 reps per set when it comes to stimulating the metabolism for losing fat permanently. That’s one of the cornerstones of the types of training routines in programs that actually get results, like Turbulence Training.

Another important aspect we have learned from scientific research in recent years is that highly variable interval-type training is far superior to slow, steady-pace cardio exercise for fat loss and post-exercise induced calorie burning. In the long run, if you focus on the internal metabolic response your body is getting from your workout routines, instead of how many calories you burn during some sort of magical “target fat burning heart rate zone”, you will achieve MUCH better fat loss results. So not only is it more result-producing, but it is also more time-efficient to use short high-intensity interval training workouts instead of slow, long, steady-pace cardio sessions.

The only time you might need to know your specific heart rate is during the recovery period of the interval training. It is important to take enough time during your recovery intervals in order for your heart rate to drop back down significantly (allow it drop to approximately less than 60% of your max heart rate).

That way you are able to get more quality work done when it counts. You do not want to start your next high-intensity interval too soon, nor do you want to exercise too hard during your recovery intervals.

All of these details are provided in the interval training guidelines within the Turbulence Training program. And we’ll show you how to properly structure your intervals so that you allow enough recovery time between each. With these guidelines, you do not have to worry about monitoring your target heart rate or anything fancy like that. It’s just not necessary. Just follow the TT instructions, and you will do great.

So here’s the bottom line:

If you want to start actually getting the fat loss results you’ve been wanting for so long, do not worry so much about your target fat buring heart rate zone during exercise. Instead, make sure that you are working at a high-intensity and a variable intensity (according to your individual capabilities of course) during each weight lifting and interval training session.

The TT workout guidelines will give you all of the details you need on the specific rest periods to use between supersets and intervals. With these guidelines, you will start to see vastly improved results from your workouts within weeks of implementing the changes.

See below for a special free report on cardio training alternatives that create a much better metabolic environment for fat loss than traditional cardio routines.

Mike Geary
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/why-the-fat-burning-zone-does-not-cause-lasting-body-fat-loss-89562.html