I am not happy that calorie counting matters, but it really does. Like many of my peers, I could stand to lose a few pounds. In my teens and twenties, it was fairly easy to lose weight – just increase my physical activity and, presto, the weight would come off without any diet modification.
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Most of the fitness blogs that I read strongly recommend that you consume protein immediately after your workout. Working out with weights breaks down muscle fiber and consuming protein immediately after a hard weight lifting session will provide the body with what it needs to start the repair of those muscle fibers.
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Earlier this month, I had lunch with a knowledgeable personal trainer named Brian Johnston who raised a very interesting point with me about how I should structure my workout for maximum efficiency. Brian argues that I can increase muscle mass and maximize fat burn by engaging in cardio exercise after weight training with kettlebells or other free weights.
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The goal of our workout is to improve the overall fitness of the participants. The kettlebells offer an excellent method of resistance training and cardio. Our last two kettlebell sessions we have added sprint sessions between each kettlebell set. These sprinting sessions help increase the heart rate between sessions giving us a longer duration of optimal calorie burning. The focus today was on incorporating legs with our workout so we did sets of squats and presses and after each set of 12 reps we did a one minute run of 30 seconds sprinting 30 seconds jogging.
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