Move It To Lose It!

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That’s right. I’m talking about the big E word… Exercise!If we do not move around, then our entire body physiology changes for the worse. This is due to the fact that our entire body runs on motion. We are created to move around constantly.Moving stimulates weight loss by increasing your metabolism ten fold.

Muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in your body.Increasing the number of active muscle cells improves your ability to burn up that unwanted fat. We are not designed to just sit around being couch potatoes. On average, our ancestors walked 9 miles a day. Their physical fitness was the equivalent to today’s Olympic athletes. They had no choice. It was be fit or die!

We have a different choice now: Be fit or be fat, and die a painful slow death filled with disease.Statistics show that 50% of people in the U.S. have heart attacks. By following a green weight loss program, you are able to lose weight naturally and permanently. Exercise is a crucial part of living a “green” lifestyle. Exercise should be performed with a wide variety of activities. Your goal is functional movement that not only makes you look younger, but will also protect you from injuries.Studies have been done where the heart was worked at a variety of intervals. Not just long distance running, not just sprinting, but a combination. Here are three simple strategies to use exercise while working to enhance your metabolism:

• Walk as much as you can wherever you go. For example, park your car in the parking spaces far away from the store.

• Take the stairs instead of the elevator.

• Buy a pilates video and start doing it 4 times a week.

• Do interval training when running. Go fast for 1 minute and slow down for a couple minutes. Bump up the intensity and do it again.

Not only can the fat melt away, but your health will drastically improve when you exercise. Especially in the high stress world that we live in you can make a huge improvement to your quality of life.

Dr Charles Livingston is a structure/function doctor who specializes in advanced nutrition and weight loss. He is also the author and creator of http://www.greenlifeweightloss.com which teaches healthy “green” principles for shedding weight fast naturally.

 

 

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