How to Burn Fat at Home

If you want to burn fat quickly combining cardiovascular training and strength training in your routine will ensure you see results in no time. The workouts don't have to include equipment that takes up half your living room or half your wallet if you know what to get. Here are some suggestions for great first-purchases to help get your fat burning at home program underway on a budget. All items should be available at your local sporting goods or fitness equipment retailer.


1. Make free weight exercises using dumbbells and barbells the foundation of your in-home gym fitness program. Free weights are compact, easy to store and take care of. Lifting free weights also gives you more strength training bang for your buck, because it works multiple muscle groups within an exercise. Focus on the basic compound exercises, such as squats, deadlifts and bench presses.

2. Use resistance bands. They offer a complete and highly effective strength training workout to build muscle and burn fat in a space-saving, inexpensive and highly portable form. Similar in look to a jump rope, the bands are made of plastic tubing and come in differing resistance levels (light, medium or heavy or specific pound equivalents). Whatever exercises you can do with free weights you can basically do with resistance bands. Most bands come with exercise illustrations, some even offer instructional videos. You can also find free resistance band exercises for burning fat on the internet, so there is no excuse not to get started.

3. Get a cardio workout. Whilst strength training is great for muscle building, cardio workouts will burn more calories during the exercise. Start doing simple exercises at home like push-ups, pull-ups, squats and abdominal crunches. Also consider fun activities which you could do with friends like walking, running, cycling, and swimming.

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