If you still insist that there are some exercises that are better than others, or maybe even the best, then perhaps you are referring to the “technique” that is being deployed in your exercise routine. This, I strongly agree to be true.
Here’s one technique that you can try using to improve your weight loss results by a few folds - Muscle Confusion.
Muscle Confusion On Exercises
Muscle confusion is a great way to make your workouts effective without spending hours after hours in the gym. What is muscle confusion? Muscle confusion usually involves rotating different types of exercises or movements to prevent your body from “getting used” to a specific routine.
Muscle confusion is important to implement into your weight loss plans because your body will eventually reach a plateau after repeating the same exercise routines for an extended period of time. After two or three weeks, your body should stop responding to your workouts at the rate it did when you first started out this routine. You will stop seeing any noticeable changes, if any at all, to your body weight and body fat percentage. This happens because your body has now adapted to your routine. This is sometimes termed as “muscle memory”.
Watch this video by Dulcinea Lee Hellings, a true Hollywood Trainer, as she spoke on the subject of Muscle Confusion, as well as the pros and cons of this technique:
Muscle confusion workouts simply require you to do something different other than your normal routines. If you have been doing cardio on the treadmill for the past several weeks, then you should switch it up and do some cardio on a stationary bike. If you lift weights then try performing burn-outs in your workout.
A burn out is when you start at your max weight you can push for one rep, then do a couple reps at a lower weight and continue to drop the weight and increase the reps until you could not do any more. To make your muscle confusion workout plan effective, just make sure that you switch things around!
Muscle Confusion On Diets
Muscle confusion does not apply only to your workout routines. It also applies to your diet. If you have been on a low calorie diet for a few weeks and notice that your weight loss has tapered off, then your body probably has already adapted to your diet. So, all you need to do is to change things up! You might want to try adding a few hundred calories to your daily caloric intake for a few weeks and see if your body will respond. In order for you to table out a complete muscle confusion workout plan, you need to switch around both your diet and workout routines!
Do not be upset if you hit a plateau. Anyone who tries to lose weight for an extended amount of time will almost inevitably hit a plateau. It's just our body adapting to the routine. If you change things up a little, your body will start to respond once again. The purpose of implementing muscle confusion into your routine is to keep your body guessing. If you vary your exercise and diet, then you can say goodbye to your plateaus.
What Is The Best Exercise To Lose Weight Then?
Muscle confusion is only one piece of the puzzle of what I personally practiced. The other piece of puzzle that you’ll need to know is the High Intensity Interval Training technique. It works wonders when used along with the muscle confusion technique. I’ve written an article about it and had it posted on my website. There are also 2 videos that accompany this article that I find useful to anyone who wants to give these methods a try out.
Exercising under these methods has resulted in me losing 18 lbs in 8 weeks. It is not a lot compared to what many “weight loss products” advertised out there, but I feel great losing weight this way, and so I’m certain that I’m losing weight the healthy way.
Do visit my website to learn more about High Intensity Interval Training. If there is any “best exercise to lose weight” ever in existence, I believe it would be the combination of Muscle Confusion and High Intensity Interval Training.
