This week, we take a look at ways to boost metabolism rate. First I'll just explain briefly what is it all about. Its commonly known in the world of fitness as Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Its the amount of daily energy used while resting in order to sustain the body. It decreases as one ages. Everyone has different BMR depending on gender, age, lifestyle, level of activeness and so on.
Someone with a high BMR tends to burn off more fats to create energy needed to sustain the daily needs of the body. Someone with high BMR can kill off fats easily while someone with low BMR will struggle to burn off fats. Good news! BMR can be increased!!! Read on!!!
It is true that the more muscles your body has, the higher your BMR. The more muscles you have, the more energy your body needs to sustain the daily needs of the body. For ladies, as I've said, due to the lack of muscle cells in their body, would find it very hard to build bulky muscles. For guys, great news, bulk up and your BMR will go up.
Playing sports helps alot in burning extra fats. The more you move, the more you burn! Although they will not help much in increasing the BMR but ultimately, exercising will contribute to a leaner body. Jogging, cycling, swimming are all some of the ways. In summary, stay active!!
Next, eat frequent meals (5 to 6 small meals daily). People who stop eating in order to lose weight are putting themselves at alot of health risks, not only that, their plan to lose weight will eventually backfire. The body will store food as fats if you starve yourself. So whatever you put into your mouth would not be used as energy but stored as fats instead. And since its not being burnt to be used as energy, you will still feel hungry and would be tempted to eat more. In addition, the body will slow metabolism to conserve energy which means your BMR slows down. To prevent your body from doing this, reducing the interval of hunger maintains the "burning process".
Do have breakfast. Giving your body some healthy nutrition gets your metabolism kicking for the day!
Drink enough water! 6 to 8 glasses of water is deemed sufficient (of course I dun mean liqour shots glasses, when I say glasses, I really do mean the glasses you use to drink milk!). This way, your liver will have the time to deal with important duty like burning fats rather than focusing on water retention.
Get enough sleep. The body burns fats even during sleep. Someone who gets 8 hours of sleep will have higher BMR as opposed to someone who sleeps only 4 hours daily. Of course, sleeping too much will not help either because the extra hours you used to sleep can be put into better use like exercising to further burn off fats!!!
In conclusion, in order to boost BMR, one should:
1) Increase muscle mass.
2) Stay active.
3) Eat small frequent meals.
4) Consume breakfast.
5) Drink enough water daily.
6) Get enough sleep.
As we go further, FatsOff will go in-depth into ways to enhance your BMR. The next entry will be on how not exercising can contribute to the myth of muscles turning into fats. Stay tuned to FatsOff!!! =D
Someone with a high BMR tends to burn off more fats to create energy needed to sustain the daily needs of the body. Someone with high BMR can kill off fats easily while someone with low BMR will struggle to burn off fats. Good news! BMR can be increased!!! Read on!!!
It is true that the more muscles your body has, the higher your BMR. The more muscles you have, the more energy your body needs to sustain the daily needs of the body. For ladies, as I've said, due to the lack of muscle cells in their body, would find it very hard to build bulky muscles. For guys, great news, bulk up and your BMR will go up.
Playing sports helps alot in burning extra fats. The more you move, the more you burn! Although they will not help much in increasing the BMR but ultimately, exercising will contribute to a leaner body. Jogging, cycling, swimming are all some of the ways. In summary, stay active!!
Next, eat frequent meals (5 to 6 small meals daily). People who stop eating in order to lose weight are putting themselves at alot of health risks, not only that, their plan to lose weight will eventually backfire. The body will store food as fats if you starve yourself. So whatever you put into your mouth would not be used as energy but stored as fats instead. And since its not being burnt to be used as energy, you will still feel hungry and would be tempted to eat more. In addition, the body will slow metabolism to conserve energy which means your BMR slows down. To prevent your body from doing this, reducing the interval of hunger maintains the "burning process".
Do have breakfast. Giving your body some healthy nutrition gets your metabolism kicking for the day!
Drink enough water! 6 to 8 glasses of water is deemed sufficient (of course I dun mean liqour shots glasses, when I say glasses, I really do mean the glasses you use to drink milk!). This way, your liver will have the time to deal with important duty like burning fats rather than focusing on water retention.
Get enough sleep. The body burns fats even during sleep. Someone who gets 8 hours of sleep will have higher BMR as opposed to someone who sleeps only 4 hours daily. Of course, sleeping too much will not help either because the extra hours you used to sleep can be put into better use like exercising to further burn off fats!!!
In conclusion, in order to boost BMR, one should:
1) Increase muscle mass.
2) Stay active.
3) Eat small frequent meals.
4) Consume breakfast.
5) Drink enough water daily.
6) Get enough sleep.
As we go further, FatsOff will go in-depth into ways to enhance your BMR. The next entry will be on how not exercising can contribute to the myth of muscles turning into fats. Stay tuned to FatsOff!!! =D
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