Monday, February 1, 2010

What You Didn't Know About Your Metabolism

By Marry Dwight

Do you know how calories are formed? Calories are obtained from the food you consume on daily basis. Hence, the more your metabolism speeds up its process the more your body coverts the food taken into heat energy. Fatty foods are mainly the producers of calories in the body as they get burnt through metabolism the body gets the energy it needs to function.

Do you know that you can use three methods to speed up your body metabolism? These methods are through building your muscle mass, exercise and good dieting in the form of eating the recommended foods that aid metabolism.

Muscle mass is one of the body's mechanisms that most people usually get confused about. Dieters especially the female folks believe that muscles mass is a man affair. Hence, they just don't care about building their muscles mass. As women try to always build your muscle mass if you want to boost your metabolism.

Exercises such as running, swimming, jogging dancing and biking are forms of cardiovascular exercise you can indulge in to boost your metabolism. Cardio exercises are very vital in this respect because they help to use up much energy. This enables your body metabolism to speed up through out the day or after the exercise.

Are you thinking of engaging on resistance exercise? To effectively carry out resistance training, always begin with a simple method that can be performed 3 to 4 times in a week, for 20 to about 30 minutes per session.

This will help increase your body metabolism and develop your muscles as well.

Food can only function as a catalyst to increase of body metabolism when combined with other specific kinds of foods. This means that different classes of foods have to be used in a particular way if an increase in body metabolism will be achieved.

Do you know that with a body metabolism that speeds up at a very fast rate you can be in your office through out the day and yet your body calories can continue to burn? This is courtesy of the speed at which your metabolism runs. Carrying out physical activities can help you achieve this feat.

You may be wondering about the best way to increase the speed of your body metabolism. The fact that you know the speed can be increased to a fast rate is the first step. All you need is to take action. Perform exercises, eat good food and maintain an active lifestyle.

A cardio exercise serves to intensify the rate of your heart beat. The greatest benefit of cardio exercise is that it helps to increase the body's metabolism and sustains it for about a whole day after the performance of the exercise.

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