If you want to lose weight, boosting your metabolism is vital. Your metabolism is measured by your metabolic rate, or the rate at which your body uses energy.
Weight Training
Lift weights. Because muscle uses more calories than fat, strengthening your muscles will make you into a more efficient calorie-burning machine, even when you're at rest. 3-4 times a week, do 2-3 sets of 10-12 repetitions on each major muscle group (abs, biceps, glutes, quads).
Strength training helps to increase your resting metabolic rate (RMR) by increasing the amount of lean muscle on your body. Your RMR is the number of calories your body requires to perform basic functions, such as breathing, circulation, and digestion.
Cardiovascular Training
Exercises like running, jumping and aerobics, (anything that gets the heart pumping), can help boost your metabolism, as well as burn calories.
One thing is true for both aerobic and HIIT training: the higher your stamina and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), the more your body will break down its fat stores into energy. Both methods with will contribute to making your metabolism run more smoothly. Still, HIIT exercises are up to three times faster than aerobic endurance training at boosting VO2max
Benefits of having a faster Metabolism
Gives You More Energy
When your body starts to digest something, it spends some energy stored in your body. If your body has good metabolism, it means your body will spend less energy on digesting food.
On the other hand, if your body does not have a good metabolism rate, it will spend a lot of energy digesting the food, and as the metabolism is not good, it will also take a long time to return the spent energy.
Reduces The Risk of Heart Disease
Having a good metabolism means that most of the food in your stomach will be digested, and the ones that are not digestible will come out of your body through feces.
So, there will be less fat and sugar in your blood. Those two are the biggest enemies of the heart. With a fast metabolism, you do not need to worry about this and, in return, reduce the risk of any heart-related disease.
Removes The Toxins From Your Body
Having a good metabolism means your body will swiftly digest food. This will help regulate your bowel movement, helping remove toxins that have been stored in your body.
This effect can further be enhanced if you consume foods that have diuretic nature.
Toxins can cause many problems in your inner organs, and removing them will help your organs become healthier and more active.
Increase the Immunity of Your Body
Blood is the prime source of your body’s immune system. It contains white blood cells that help protect your body from all sorts of viral or bacterial infections.
A good metabolism helps improve your blood circulation. This means all parts of your body will have a sufficient amount of white blood cells, and whenever there is an infection, blood can swiftly flow there, and the white blood cells in those blood can attack whatever caused the infection, thus improving your body’s immune system.
Sandy Donnelly
Founder DBC Health Retreat
