5 Of The Best Weight Loss Exercises Ever
Losing weight successfully and keeping it off entails so much more than a proper diet, you have to have regular physical activity, too. Hopefully, you’ve started being active many years ago. But if not, well, now is the perfect time to start!
These weight loss exercise suggestions all do wonders to the human body, not only by getting your blood going, your heart pumping and your breathing maximized. They also increase your stamina while strengthening, toning, and trimming the whole body.
1. Yoga
Yoga has gained popularity over the years as the number of celebrities and fitness gurus promote their efficacy in keeping the body lithe and trimmed.Yoga is not only a great stress-buster and flexibility-improving exercise, it’s also a great way of losing and controlling weight. Studies have revealed that yoga practitioners generally weigh less than individuals who don’t do yoga at all.
2. Walking
Walking is the ultimate go-to workout, not only toning your core, but also your gluteal, quadriceps and hamstring muscles. Plus, walking is very easy to do, not expensive at all and can be done anywhere. Hippocrates was totally right in saying walking is man’s best medicine.
3. Cycling
Cycling offers low impact but efficient exercise. Not only is it a great cardio workout for both the lungs and the heart, it is also a good exercise for the upper and lower body muscles.
You work your legs from pedaling, you work your arms from turning, and your position and posture to maintain balance also aids in burning calories at an extra faster rate.
4. Step exercises
Step exercises, which are basically aerobic workouts that utilize a raised platform or step, are great cardio workouts which make your heart pump faster and improves lung function by maximizing your ability to breathe.
Step exercises have positive effects on the mental health as well, alleviates stress and because the exercise is usually done in a group, also improves social interactions. Lastly, step exercises have the additional advantages of being low cost, recommended for all ages and having no restrictions.
Weight loss isn’t going to happen fast without strength training sessions. Contrary to popular belief, strength training does not make you ‘bulk up’, so you don’t have to worry about looking like a bodybuilder anytime soon.
Rather, strength and weight training only makes you build lean muscle mass to burn fat. In addition, it also increases metabolism for fast weight loss, strengthen bones, elevate mood and mental health, prevent injury and boosts the libido.
How to Beat a Craving
Show the craving who’s boss! Conquer it, you gotta if you’re gonna win your weight — weightloss is a battle. And you should come out victorious. How? First, you have to beat the cravings.
For me, here’s some things I do to beat cravings:
1.) Look at a tonnnn of thinspo before you eat, if you’re really really craving something to eat. Guilt yourself into not eating. It sounds harsh, but it works! See the pictures of all the tiny girls and picture you looking like that; and don’t only tell yourself you wish you could look like that, tell yourself you’re going to look like that.
2.) If the craving is still putting up a tough fight, try looking at your stomach before you eat. Pinch the fat there (if you’re like me and have any fat there), or guilt yourself by looking at your stomach while you eat. Tell yourself “Look, I’ve already got a ton of food right here in these fat rolls. Why should I eat this cookie? I don’t need it; I’m full. I am, really.” Pretend that each bite of an unhealthy food item is going to give you an entire ‘nother fat roll. It sounds strange, but it works.
3.) If that craving still won’t go away, step on the scale. Sometimes numerical motivation is what you need to remind yourself that you don’t need to eat this.
4.) Still not working? Don’t just imagine the body you’re aiming to have. Tell yourself that that is the body you’re going to have… but eating that cookie is not going to let you have it. Wishful thinking and prospects of the reality of the future are very different. Don’t just be a wishful thinker; make it happen. The cookie is the enemy. Food itself isn’t the enemy, but calories are; so we want to avoid all the higher-calorie foods as much as possible.
5.) [This goes for if you’re having a craving, or just in general, as well] Drink water before meals. Always. It fills up your stomach a little and makes you feel full faster. Also, another great tip regarding cravings and water: If you’re having a craving, chew on ice cubes (1, 2, 3 — they’re 0-calories, so take however many you need) until the craving goes away.
6.) If you have time, take a nap. When you wake up the craving will be gone and you won’t be as hungry anymore. You’ll probably forget all about it.
7.) When you’re trying to avoid snacking, just brush your teeth instead. Who wants to eat when their mouth feels so clean and spotless?
8.) If none of this has helped, then when you get a craving, try just doing 50 crunches or 100 jumping jacks (some simple exercise), and then that will probably have killed the craving (and some calories, too!).
*The absolute best way to beat a craving is by exercising. You’ll feel great and fit and you won’t be hungry — you’ll just be tired (and maybe a little thirsty, of course).*
Hope this helped. =)
(Source: anorexicbeliever)
