How To Get Your Body To Burn Stored Body Fat Adam Petford 09/15/2024 How do you get your body to burn stored fat? This is the million-dollar question! And one that has fueled a huge industry ranging from magic pills to whole fitness programs, clubs and courses. My advice is to keep it simple. Here are my steps. How much body fat do you have?
If you are very overweight and have a sedentary lifestyle you can lose a huge amount of body fat by cutting your caloric intake by around 30% and adding in some daily exercise. In most cases simply walking an extra 2-5km every day will make a huge difference. Losing body fat when you are obese is actually quite easy as your body does not want to carry around that much weight and will shed a lot of it pretty quickly.
If you are already quite fit, active and just have some excess fat you cant seem to shift then knowing how much you have in terms of body fat percentage, your weight, strength and long term fitness goals become important markers. Your first step should be to record your weight, measurements, BMI and Body Fat %. You can do this using my free measure your progress form .
You will need fat calipers, scale and tape measure. You can then set a date, take some pictures and email the information to yourself. Once you have some benchmark states you can track your progress to make sure what you are doing is working and inline with your overall fitness goals. Don’t rely on cardio too much I am not saying cardio is bad; I recommend it to my clients for the overall health benefits it can bring.
It is however, not the best method to burn stored fat , if you just increase your cardio and reduce your calories the message you will send to your body will be “Lose weight and reduce metabolism” The weight you will lose will likely be muscle as well as body fat – so if you lose 10kg of weight through cardio and a calorie reduction and 50% of that is muscle your overall body fat percentage with actually increase as a result.