Move at the Hips Please!

I once had a client ask me how to burn a greater amount of calories when exercising. After seeing her exercise, I noticed she had a tendency to limit her movements. Yes, she moved continuously but, the movements were either limited, or she moved only the smaller muscle groups.

I informed her that to burn more energy during exercise, she really needed to use the bigger muscle groups of the body. For her, it meant moving more at her hips, and less at the shoulders and arms.

Imagine the difference between squat thrusts, and performing arm lateral raises? The arm raises will burn much less energy because the muscles involved are small groups. Squats thrusts will burn more because she would be using the muscles of the thighs, buttocks, and all the torso together.

I think this is one reason why doing tons of sit ups will never beat performing aerobic workouts to burn more energy and help lose fat around the belly. Aerobic workouts include a whole host of general movements which require more effort; such as, standing, bending at the knees, lunges and squats, as well as twists of the torso.

Burning large amounts of energy can be acieved quicker if we put more effort into all our movements, whether exercising or doing daily chores!

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