What To Do On Non-Exercise Days To Aid Fat Loss

Welcome to the 4th day of tips and strategies that will help you avoid the dreaded cut misery.

Today's article is going to focus on exercise. Now I am going to offer some advice on how I focus on doing the right exercise at the right time.

Starting with the obvious I always want to make sure that my gym workouts are the best that they can be. The intensity in terms of resistance has to be high to elicit any changes. It is also important that I do some cardio at the same time.

A typical session for me would be around an hour of resistance work and I fit this in my existing lifestyle and the type of training I will do will be determined by how many sessions I was likely to do in the forthcoming week.

If I can get 4 sessions I will spread out the areas of the body I will hit in each session, and if I only get 3 sessions, I will combine muscle groups and make super sets to maximise my time.

The most important aspect comes to the end. I always have a set amount of time, usually 15-25 min dedicated to some cardio. This will be a mixture of steady state cardio, and higher intensity cardio.

The reason being is that I need to do some cardio for both my mental and physical health. It is important to have this mixture so that you have the variety in terms of your session but also allow yourself to burn fat on active exercise days.

Now, on designated "rest days" you can be doing things that can aid both recovery and fat loss.

I find that going for a walk (and I do it more often having a 7 week old child) on rest days aids my physical and mental recovery but also because I am still moving, I am making sure that I get sunlight, and that oxygen and blood is flowing, all whilst keeping it low intensity. This is more about active recovery rather than being highly active.

You are not limited to just walking, clients of mine have found that doing mobility and yoga really helpful in terms of helping them keep flexible, but also aid their mindset.

Other ideas could include cycling, playing your favourite sport and a leisurely swim could certainly play a part in an active recovery. Make sure you are doing the activities because you love doing them, not as a direct strategy to lose fat.

This is because you don't need to add stress in to the mix, it should be an easy decision to make in terms of doing the activities.

Overall, I certainly think that doing an active recovery alongside good nutrition as we have discussed earlier in the week will work wonders in helping you have the right balance between building muscle and burning fat.

I hope you found today's article useful for you, and if you do want to know how you can put it all together, you can book a FREE STRATEGY CALL whereby you will get personalised strategies to your lifestyle that you action straight away.

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Until tomorrow, have a great day!

John