Change Your Weightlifting To Burn More Fat

Change Your Weightlifting To Burn More Fat
BY：SamElli

Still trying that same workout routine but not seeing the results you want? One likely cause could be that you’re not doing enough to raise your metabolism, therefore not seeing the fat burning/muscle building results you are expecting from your workouts. The first step is as simple as just looking at your workout routine and deciding what it is you need to change in order to burn more, and increase your metabolism. The first step is looking at how long of a rest period you take in between sets during resistance training.

Technically the body needs at least 30 seconds of time in between sets for your muscles to rest and recover. But if you’re not seeing the results you want, make sure you’re getting as close to a thirty second rest period as possible, but don’t go over that time limit. That way you force your body to increase metabolism to cope with the stress of the workload you’re putting upon it.

Another way to increase metabolism and fat burn is by not alternating days when you do lower and upper body work, but rather working both in one session. By doing both lower and upper body workouts in the same day you actually increase the amount of growth hormones flowing throughout your body, and growth hormones burn fat. Therefore mixing up your exercises and doing upper and lower body workouts at the same time is the best way.

You can actually see even better results by alternating upper and lower body workouts in between sets even. Like doing a set with your biceps, and then switching to calves. Alternating between sets allows your muscles longer recovery time, allowing for you to do a longer workout, and as long as you adhere to the thirty second rest period, you’re still raising your metabolism.

And the final quick way to increase your fat burning and metabolism is by doing more sets with fewer reps per set. Common misconception has it that more reps builds more muscles, but actually instead of doing say 10 reps and 3 sets, you’ll actually burn more muscle by doing six reps and eight sets.