To make the best workout routines for women, we need to be clear on goals. If it's all about losing fat and looking better, I would recommend making a workout routine just for that. Did you notice that I said losing fat and not losing weight? I said that for a reason! Workout routines for women that actually work at losing fat also have a weight training aspect to them. This is something most folks don't know about, but it's really important in designing your own workout routine. Another thing I want to mention here before we get into details is that you also need something that will burn the fat off. I'm not talking about the old cardio everybody knows, that is time-consuming and produces pretty limited results. I'm talking about an effective, quick and efficient cardio workout that actually burns the fat.
Weight training is vital in a fat loss program for two reasons and it all boils down to muscle mass. Firstly you want more muscle mass. Muscle is a metabolically active tissue, it requires energy to keep it alive. Energy comes in the form of calories that come from food. So muscle burns calories each and every day regardless of what else you do. So the more muscle mass you can build the higher your basic metabolic rate will be, which is the amount of calories you need each day to operate and maintain your body weight. Having more muscle is like a form of passive calorie burning.
The second reason is that weight training helps you keep your muscles healthy even when you're running a calorie deficit. What a lot of women do when they want to lose fat is that they starve themselves or over-exercise, or even worse, they do both. What will happen is that the weight will come off, but a lot of that weight is actually muscle.
Then when they stop the diet or exercise they start to add fat and now they have new fat on a body with less muscle. The result is a severe change in body composition. Having less muscle not only results in a decreased metabolism but also less functional capabilities for those everyday tasks like climbing the stairs, carrying heavy items and doing any physical chores.
Old fashioned cardio training is dead, buried and finished. This type of cardio is where people spend countless hours clocking up miles at some low to moderate intensity. Research has shown this is nothing short of a waste of time. It is not good at using calories, burning fat or even improving cardiovascular health, plus it is very time consuming and can lead to chronic overuse injuries. The most efficient way to burn fat and calories is high intensity interval training. This involves alternating periods of high intensity output with active lower intensity rest periods. I have discussed this in detail in previous articles.
Good workout routines for women are designed toward reaching their goals in the most efficient way possible. If you want to lose fat and look better, the way to achieve your goal is to do body weight training 2 to 3 times per week together with the type of cardio routine described above, also 2 or 3 times each week. What you'll get out of this program is leaner muscle, a higher rate of metabolism, a better figure and less time spent at the gym. The only thing you've got to lose is your body fat.
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