If you want to lose weight you should have a suitable diet and some good exercise workouts. One useful exercise to lose weight is jogging.
The advantage of joggling is that the exercise will boost your metabolism and consume calories. Some warm up before joggling is advisable because it reduces the risk of twisting an ankle or pulling a muscle. You could start with some moderate exercise such as walking a couple of miles and then continue with the jogging.
Another useful way to increase the metabolic rate and therefore increase your weight loss is to do some sprinting and/or some uphill running during your joggling. You could do some short sprints of 30 seconds or a minute, go back to your normal joggling and perhaps later try some uphill running.
Researchers have found that interval training, i.e. using alternatively low-intensity and high-intensity exercise, significantly increases the fat burning. When you do higher intensity exercises, you burn more body fat, instead of just just consuming calories.
Moreover, when you work at a higher intensity level, your body's growth hormones are stimulated and this boosts your metabolism, causes an even higher level of fat burning and builds muscle.
If you do your joggling exercise regularly you will soon increase your endurance and you could do longer workouts (at least half an hour every other day) and this will cause more fat burning and weight loss.
The alternation of low-intensity and high-intensity exercise will allow to get faster results in a shorter time. Therefore you could exercise each time for half an hour instead on 45 minutes or more. Another benefit of interval training is that you give the body some time to recover and have more energy for higher intensity exercise.
This routine is suitable for people who do not have joint problems. If you suffer for problems at the ankles, knees or back or have arthritis, it would be preferable to do some more moderate exercise such as walking.
You should understand what happens to the body when you do your exercise.
The body normally consume calories by burning fat and carbohydrate.
When you do not exercise and sit or read, you probably consume about 50% carbohydrates and 50% fat.
If you start running or jogging, your body tries to get some quick energy by burning more carbohydrates. However we have limited stores of carbohydrates in our body and after a while the metabolism ratio will change and you will start burning more fats.
However it is not really important whether you burn carbohydrates or fat, because in the end. if too many carbohydrates are consumed, the body will break down the fat stores and transform them into carbohydrates. The real important thing is how many calories you consume by doing your exercise.
If you do moderate exercise such as walking, probably your fat consumption percentage is higher than when you do some higher intensity exercise like jogging, cycling, swimming and running. However you will need to exercise longer in order to consume the same amount of calories.
However you should avoid exercising for too long, because this could cause some muscle loss and a reduction of your metabolism. This phenomenon which has been noticed in people who run the marathon.
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