With the sedentary lifestyle that most of us live today, combined with the increasing ease that we can get fast food with low nutritional value, it is no wonder we are getting fatter and fatter.
Despite the seemingly endless supply of information, programs, and diets out there, we seem to be getting fatter and fatter. Despite our greatest efforts to face the harsh facts, there really are only two thing that will assure you a slim and healthy body.
Diet, and exercise.
Of course these are both broad and highly debatable terms. I’m using them here in their general sense. Diet is anything you eat, and exercise is anything you do. The old school thinking is that in order to lose Fat, you’ll need to eat less, and exercise more.
But is it really that simple? Or perhaps a better question is does it have to be so cut and dried? The short answer to both of these is a resounding no. The kind of foods you eat are much more important that how much you eat. Exercise as well is a qualitative thing. The right exercise is much better than too much of the wrong exercise.
The best exercises are the ones that give you both a cardiovascular workout, and increase your lean muscle mass at the same time. Doing the cardiovascular exercise is good for burning fat while doing the actual exercise, while the increase in lean muscle mass helps to boost your metabolism, so you can actually burn fat while watching TV.
The good news is that the best exercises to lose Fat are also the easiest, quickest, and cheapest. They are simple to learn, and only require a few minutes a day, and you can do them right there on the floor where you’re sitting now. (Unless of course you are reading this at Starbucks or someplace, then you might get some strange looks.)
I’m talking about simple body Fat exercises. Here’s a one powerful one to get you started.
Hindu Squats
These have been known by many cultures for many years to have tremendous benefits. It is basically a squat, using your body Fat. Start by standing, with the Fat on the balls of your feet, about shoulder width apart. Take a deep breath, and squat down. As you do so, push you arms behind you, and swing them so your fingertips just brush the floor at the lowest point of the squat. Swing them so they are moving forward, back to front, as you cycle through your squat. Breath in as you go down, and breath out as you stand back up again. Keep your Fat forward, on the front parts of your feet.
When you first start doing these, you will likely only be able to do ten, maybe twenty. But you’ll quickly be able to do more and more. Once you get to the point where you can do a hundred without stopping, you’ll be in great shape. A few minutes every morning is all it takes. You can usually finish one hundred in the course of one or two songs on the radio. That’s only five or ten minutes.
This will build up your upper legs, your buttocks, your lower back and your lungs. This one exercise will do wonders for your metabolism, and have a powerful effect on your self esteem as well. Jut make sure to start slowly, doing only as many as comfortable. Don’t push yourself. If you’re like most people, you’ll get up to twenty or thirty or so in a week, fifty in a couple weeks, and maybe a hundred in a month or so. If you continue to do these on a regular basis, doing five hundred every morning is not out of the question. Even that will only take you twenty minutes or so. And the health benefits will be astronomical. Those that have started to do these know the awesome benefits that are far and above simple health and fitness that come with these simple exercises, and soon so will you.
