Simple Health Tips

Simple Tips to Help Optimize Lean Muscle Building and Fat Burning

Keep your workouts short and sweet:

Keep you workouts short, preferably less than 30 minutes.  Stick to compound movements like squats, lunges, push ups and pull ups.  Remember the more muscles you can stimulate at one time the more calories you’ll burn and better the results!

When working out, pay attention to how your body feels.  Push it only as far as you’re comfortable.  If you haven’t worked out at higher intensities before, listen to your body.  If you push yourself beyond exertion, you won’t be able to recover adequately.  A good sign is how you feel after the workout is over.  If you’re still  tired and dragging yourself hours after the workout, you probably over did it.

Eat clean:

Make sure that you’re eating the right combination of macronutrients, which are your proteins, carbs and fats.  Most people eat too many carbs.  Remember, just because it’s healthy, doesn’t mean that it’s not going add fat on your body.

Cut out all refined/processed foods.  Stick to whole foods that you’re body was meant to eat.

Consume enough protein, about 0.7 – 1 gram of protein for each pound of lean body weight is a good estimate.  Protein helps keep you satisfied longer.

Keep your eye on how many carbs you’re eating.  That includes fruit as well.  Fruits are good for you, but most of them are also quite high in sugar (fructose).  So keep your fruit intake moderate and if possible to stick to fruits with lower sugar concentrations and higher antioxidant levels like berries.

Don’t stay away from fats…especially good fats.  Eating ample amounts of good fat will help you stay healthy and actually accelerate your body’s own fat burning process!

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