noexcusesbodymakeover.com Many people wonder what the best exercise to lose weight is and there is so much misinformation about this subject out there that it does make it really hard to find the truth. What makes it especially hard is that for the last 30 odd years we have been told that the best exercise to lose weight is low intensity, long duration activities that keep us in some sort of magical (mythical) fat burning zone. Recent research about how our body’s fat burning systems and processes work has made all that nonsense outdated. We now know that this type of exercise is inefficient for long term fat loss. The reason for this is that it does little to nothing to increase the metabolism (the body’s engine) and the rate we burn fuel (calories). ‘Cardio’ is NOT the best exercise to lose weight Part of our old fashioned beliefs was that we believed that the best exercise to lose weight was one that burned the most calories per session with no thought being given to what happened after the session was over. The recommended way to lose weight was to do this low intensity exercise and combine it with a restrictive food diet. So, now we have two things for losing weight (cardio activity and dieting). And, guess what both of them work AGAINST the metabolism, not boosting it in any way and more often than not slowing it down even further so more fat would be stored. Any wonder that 95 percent of these types of weight loss programs failed. The best exercise to lose weight …