How to turn your body into a fat burning furnace

I keep hearing about how I should add muscle if I want to lose weight. If I'm already overweight, why would I want to keep or build muscle?

First off, let’s start with this exercise. Let’s get that ugly image of the big, veiny, overly-muscular bodybuilder OUT of your head.
Now, replace that picture with the lean, toned body of your choosing - the one you aspire to achieve.That's what will happen when we adD muscle - more specifically, when we add muscle fiber, or their constituent parts, muscle filaments. Filaments are tiny strands, just like the filament in your average light bulb. In order to build a better body, I'm talking about maximizing the number of muscle fiber filaments.

Here’s why.

These tiny strands of muscle each carry a powerful calorie-burning furnace within them. Your body manufactures thousands of these filaments after each productive workout. Now imagine how fast fat would melt off your body if you were adding thousands of these fat burning furnaces each day.

That's exactly what you do when you train with intensity and resistance. (It's also one of the secrets of breaking the dreaded fat loss plateau)

Don’t worry about turning into the Incredible Hulk. These filaments are tiny, so you're not actually growing muscle at a rapid pace, you're just bolstering what's already there by increasing muscle density.

You're simultaneously strengthening your body, increasing your endurance and increasing your metabolism.

Not to mention the "toning" phenomenon that occurs. Because your muscles reshape your body due to the added filaments, you look outstanding and fit as the fat melts off... resulting in the elusive six pack

Remember, as beneficial as cardio activity is to fat loss, strength training can deliver the same benefits and then some!

Proper strength training not only increases your metabolic rate, so you burn more calories each day, it also helps you injury-proof your body and improve your posture and structural integrity so you're not walking around like Quasimodo. It also builds up bone density and helps prevent osteoporosis.

You get the idea.

Back to fat loss...

Strength training can be performed in a myriad number of ways, but to start, I'd suggest bodyweight exercises such as squats, pushups, sit ups, and other exercises that you don’t need a fully-equipped gym for.

I know what you're thinking, "oh no, not that gym class crap!"

Right. Not that gym class crap. Here's the deal.

While your run-of-the-mill PE class may have been fine back in 4th grade when you didn’t exercise anyway, you're not going to get great results with the gym class stuff now.

There are certain rhythms, cadences, forms, rest periods, sequences, tempos and combinations that will make the difference between luke-warm results and blazing fat loss. We present these in our fast fat loss book Black Book of Secrets. The program we provide, as powerful as it is, can be modified easily if you are a beginner.

Here’s a link to the program you can literally do right now. In fact, I insist you stop reading this article and perform the workout. Don’t worry, it’ll still be here when you finish.

Now, the rapid fat loss that occurs in response to strength training is multi-fold. I'm focused on 2 main topics in this article. The first was the addition of muscle filaments, which burn calories on their own.

The second topic is the step before the filaments can be added. These are the actual biochemical and mechanical processes that occur to produce and add the filaments in the first place.

During resistance exercise (which obviously takes energy to perform AKA burning calories) we break down muscle fiber. We cause damage to muscle cells which must be repaired post-workout. In other words,

Muscle is not built during the workout, it's built after the workout.

The rebuilding of the muscle is where new filaments are formed, and this happens after the workout... during the next 24 - 36 hours.

"Repair Mode"

The 24 - 36 hours after the workout are the golden hours where the "city is rebuilt."

The rebuilding process is done through biochemical reactions that burn a lot of calories.

This is where protein comes in. Proteins are the bricks that your muscle filament is built with. Carbohydrate plays a huge role at this point as the cement.

Imagine a house being built on a hot day in July. Dozens of bricklayers out in the sun and sweating. Those are the “workers” in the muscle. Sweating, forming muscle filaments from the protein bricks and adding those filaments to the house…

…and burning calories!

Now imagine what would happen if the workers were to run out of bricks. What happens? The workers sit down, cool off and relax. No more calories burned, no more muscle being built.

How do we make sure we have those bricks to keep the process going? How do we make sure we have enough bricks and cement (of the highest quality) to get the best job done?

That will be in part II of this article. (Sign up in the box in the upper right hand corner to receive part II and our special report The Dark Side of Dieting before everyone else!)

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