When you want to seriously lose weight there’s basically one way to get to your goal weight… control you caloric intake and burn, burn, burn those calories that are built up in your body.

Calorie intake should basically come from natural foods and must be lesser than the amount of calorie you will shed. If you take in more calories than you burn you will never get to your goal. Regardless of how rigorous you exercise program is, it will be rendered useless by an unhealthy diet.

Workouts to lose weight should contain a blend of aerobics, weight-lifting and isometric exercises to increase your metabolism, grow your muscles and increase your strength … all of which burns fat.

An exercise that focuses on increasing the muscles will be beneficial for weight loss in the future. While lean muscle does weigh more, it’s healthier, takes up less mass on your body and those muscles burn more calories when you do work them… also lean muscle mass consumes fat to power itself.

If you want to burn the most number of calories it is best to employ a repetitive workout program that makes use of light exercise tools. The bane of most people who are overweight is their belly, their gut, their paunch… it is the caretaker of those last, stubborn 3 to 6 pounds.

And to eliminate it, strengthening the core muscles is a fantastic way to reduce the waistline; whether it’s Pilates, an aggressive Ab routine or a trainer-designed callisthenic series of moves and positions, the goal is stay moving as much as possible for the continued sweat.

Shedding unwanted pounds must involve subjecting the heart to a forceful exercise routine. At least a 20 minute strenuous run (or bike ride or steps on the Stairmaster or treadmill, etc.) every other day will increase your heart rate and your metabolic rate.

Start slowly and then steadily work your way to a sweating state, allowing the heart rate to burn the extra calories.

What’s important to remember when doing workouts to lose weight, is to determine what your optimal heart rate is (which depends on your weight and age) and to maintain that optimal heart rate for at least 30 minutes 4 to 6 days a week while doing intense interval cardio work for about 20 minutes after your weight-lifting session is really a great way to burn the calories, sculpt your body and take off the weight.

Heavy exercise is not necessary to lose weight although this will help develop muscle mass which burns fat faster, eventually leading to a dense but thin physique. When you do hit the weights, you want to do high reps with lighter weights, this increases your caloric use. One-fourth of your optimum weight is enough for squat exercises done in 5 sets with at least 15 repetitions each. You will feel the exercise do its job as some of the excess weight will melt off on the following days. (Provided you’re not rewarding your great workout with a pizza.)

Not as quick as if you were taking some questionable supplement, but losing weight, keeping it off and remaining sexy, supple and smooth is a matter of adjusting your diet and maintaining a rigorous workout schedule, just ask Kim Kardashian.

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