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The Weight Loss Secret

People have been doing diets and trying to lose weight for at least 100 years but to the largest extent most dieters have been unsuccessful. As we all know many people have been gaining more and more weight over the last 30 years and often this can be explained using just one reason.

What is the reason for most diets being unsuccessful? The reason is largely one of exercise. As we become a more sedentary society our weight loss plans are more and more centered around what we eat, when we eat and what to avoid. As important as food is this what to eat mentality makes it even more important to look at exercise as the key to losing weight and getting healthier.

Besides weight loss, one of the big reasons that people diet is to get healthier and this is a very important goal to be working towards. Eating well is a very important factor in getting healthier but when you have gone as far as you can in improving your diet, then exercise is the only other option to improving your health.

So when I talk about exercise how much is the minimum and what should I strive towards?

Exercise to me means that you sweat for 20 minutes. You start your workout with a bit of stretching and a warmup and after this initial warmup the real time starts. Don’t kill yourself in your workout but instead workout at a high level. On a scale of one to ten with a one being the energy to walk to the fridge and with 10 being a workout that you can not sustain for even one minute then you want to be at a solid 7. This means that you are pushing hard and do not know if you will be able to make it through the entire 20 minutes but you think you can.

Once you have walked, rode, ran or rowed yourself to a decent level of fitness with cardio it is time to look at weight lifting. Weight lifting is very important in weight loss as it will be the key to increasing the amount of calories that you need to sustain ourselves. The sedentary lifestyle that we live does not make it easy to lose weight because out metabolism is so slow. If you start doing some weights and gain just one pound of muscle it will take your body and extra 50 calories a day to maintain that muscle, let alone the number of calories burned in your weight workout.

It is not too hard to become an athlete to the point of helping you lose weight. anything that you do for exercise will radically increase your calories burned and help you lose weight. Start today and in a month you will be in much better shape to help you burn calories faster.

How Exercise Benefits Your Body

What happens, for example, when one uses his muscles too little? This leads to what has been dubbed, in this country, as a Flabby American. This means more than just flabby muscles. This means "flabby" or debilitated heart, blood vessels, blood, respiratory system, to name a few items. A flabby man suffers from an old sickly state, which has been given a fancy name: hypokinesis.

Hypokinesis creates a vicious circle: little activity brings about greater inability for activity, which leads to even greater restriction of activity, and the person begins to act sick or prematurely aged, avoiding physical exertion which used to be fun and now causes only pains and aches and makes one puff and feel tired.

Sometimes we can use help in our push for better health. There are some Green Tea diet medications that will help.

What can be done about this? This can be remedied in a simple manner—start exercising! Do it gradually, and gradually you will become again what you used to be when you were younger—almost!

The result obtained from exercising may be compared with that obtained during immunization. A doctor injects some substance which may cause a temporary indisposition, but makes you immune against even a deadly disease.

Each time that you exercise until you feel slightly tired is comparable to one immunization shot, only in this case it is immunization against fatigue and not against a disease. After each exercise session, you become more resistant to fatigue and you can do more than before. There is, however, a difference between immunization and training.

During immunization you usually have only a short period of partial mobilization of the body which results in a dramatic production of specific weapons called antibodies. Once immunization is achieved you don't need any more shots, sometimes for a few years, sometimes for life. During training, although the body is mobilized to a greater extent, the immediate results are slight and of a short duration. Thus, one cannot consider himself trained for life, or for a year or for a month, by just exercising on two or three successive days. One has to exercise frequently and continuously. Only in this manner can one obtain a lasting cumulative effect.

Few people realize the tremendous capacities of our internal organs. Let us cite just a few.

1. If all the capillaries of one individual were placed end to end they would form a string long enough to go four times around the earth, or close to 100,000 miles. And the heart which pumps the blood through all these capillaries weighs only ten ounces.
No wonder that, if the heart weakens, sludges may begin to form in the vessels.

2.    If we take from a sedentary man a bundle of muscle fiber equal in thickness to the lead of an ordinary pencil, and cut it across, there will be as many as 2,000 capillaries.

3.    A drop of blood of a man at rest contains 250 million corpuscles. During exercise it is increased by 7.5 million.

4.    At rest, about one gallon of blood per minute is pumped by the heart. During running this may increase to 10 gallons per minute.

5.    If all the blood corpuscles of an individual are placed on the ground they will cover an area of about 5,000 square yards.

6.    The surface area of the capillaries in the lungs equals the area of one-half of a tennis court for singles. Fantastic as these figures are, they may be even greater; and this result can be achieved through the fun of exercise.