By Julie Brealy

Most of the effective fat burning workouts are made up of cardiovascular exercises. These are continuous activities that involve all major muscle groups in your body. Fat burning exercises are great for fitness especially if you are aiming to lose weight. It burns more calories from fats and at a higher percentage.

There are so many easy fat burning exercises that you can do it yourself and with minimal requirements. However, before choosing the type of fat burning exercise that you wish to perform, it is important to consider an activity which you really enjoy. It makes exercising more fun and away from the notion of monotonous routine.

Here are easy do it yourself fat burning exercises.

Walking. Perhaps this is one of the simplest yet effective form of cardiovascular exercise. It does not require any special equipment or trainings. Walking only for 30 minutes can burn 180 calories. But if you want to make the most of this exercise, try to jog in between, brisk walk or walk your way up to the hill, and do not forget to swing your hands as you walk. Performing this burns more calories.

Swimming. It is known to be one of the best exercises because all your body parts - your legs, arms, neck and lungs - are moving all at the same time. It is also a great way to build muscles as water creates more resistance hence you exert more effort in your arms while swimming. Swimming in freestyle stroke for an hour burns 470 calories.

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Peta Bee has written in Times Online a must to read article entitled ‘Walk Your Way to Fitness’. It features the unbeatable fitness benefits of walking without breaking your wallet. If you want to lose weight but cannot afford the costly gym membership fees, then walking is the best option for you.

According to the article, walking is considered an effective way to lose weight and it prevents potential chronic disease. It is also gentler to your joints compared to running though you reap almost the same fitness benefits because both activities target the same muscle groups in your body.

The article mentions also some interesting latest trends of fitness walking and it aims to get the optimum benefits of walking exercise. The Nordic, Chi, Health and Retro walking is relatively new concepts however mall and indoor walking are ideas which most of you are familiar.

Bearing in mind the fitness benefits you get from walking can really motivate you to start a walking exercise or to walk for another extra mile.  In fact, you can incorporate walking in your day to day life to increase your fitness level. You can start from the basics such as using stairs instead of elevators or parking your car a block away.

Read the full article, ‘Walk Your Way to Fitness‘ from TimesOnline.co.uk - Health Features.

The Festive Season is always the most challenging period of the year particularly for those who are struggling to lose weight because it is the time for parties and celebrations with friends, families and colleagues. A string of these celebrations even just for a week or two is enough to add extra kilos on your weight. To counterattack these potential weight loss opportunities, the article ‘50 Ways to Cut 500 Calories a Day’ of Shaun Chavis in MSN Health & Fitness can be very helpful to you.

The article outlines 50 various ways to cut 500 calories a day. Note that these are activities and not any diet scheme. Though you are already familiar with some of the tips, it is great to refresh your knowledge and learn new strategies.

There are two noticeable areas that these tips are trying to hit. It is your food intake and the activities you can do to consume 500 calories. For food related tips, it gives you a better idea of the calories stored in the featured food option. It advises you to choose smartly in the menu list to save calories. A classic sample illustrated in the ‘50 Ways to Cut 500 Calories a Day’ is the spaghetti. The spaghetti with meat sauce can save you 560 calories than with Italian sauce.

On the other hand, the various activities that can burn 500 calories a day can include hiking, walking, circuit training and so on.

This article ‘50 Ways to Cut 500 Calories a Day’ has really valuable information that can be very beneficial to you especially during this festive season.

Read the full article, ‘50 Ways to Cut 500 Calories a Day‘ from MSN Health and Fitness.

Fitness Editorial Credits to Shaun Chavis, Health.com.

The article ‘From fat to gym rat, woman loses 200 pounds’ of Steve Almasy is really inspiring for those who wants to lose weight or to get fit. The article is about the story of Becky Griggs whose weight ballooned to 352 pounds and dropped over 200 pounds within six year.

Her primary motivation to lose weight is her rising blood pressure. This is the same reason that sustains her to drop 200 pounds and maintains a healthy life for the past few years. Her tough journey is a proof that losing weight is possible provided you are equipped with the strong motivation and proper weight lose program.

Griggs successful recipe to losing weight is simple and very basic. The equation is a tag-of-war of calorie in and calorie out. Her diet is comprised of high protein while she eliminates sugar and flour.

She also stressed the importance of believing in yourself that you can do it. Indeed no one can motivate you best to keep a healthy lifestyle but you. Also, the rewards for determination and discipline to shed those extra pounds benefit no one else but you.

So if you are about to fall from your goal to lose weight, then try to reinforce your goal by checking the real motivation which prompted you to journey this path. Your commitment to weight loss is tantamount to your motivation to shed that extra weight.

Stay focus and believe in yourself!

Read the full article, ‘From fat to gym rat, woman loses 200 pounds‘ from CNN.com - Fit Nation.

The importance of creating conducive ambience for weight loss in your home is very important. According to Megan Othersen Gorman who has written the ‘How Your Home May Help You Lose Weight’ that the things we have in our
house affects our ability to lose weight.

The article outlines some tips on how to create conducive ambience for losing weight. The first area you must hit is the fridge and food cabinets. Of course, it is difficult to lose weight if your cabinet and fridge are stocked with ice cream, cookies, cheese and other high-calorie foodstuff. If you are trying to shed extra pounds, then stock these areas with
nutritious and healthy food options.

Another interesting suggestion is to minimize watching TV or to stick only to one TV unit for extreme measures. Let’s face it! TV plays a major influence in our life from the way we think to the way we eat. Strong marketing ads pour in the televisions. This will encourage you to taste those high calorie foods that are scrumptiously advertised in the TV.

Reading the article ‘How Your Home May Help You Lose Weight‘ will enlighten you that willpower to lose weight is best practice if you have the right place this is conducive for your weight loss goal.

Editorial Credits to Megan Othersen Gorman, Rodale.com for MSN Health and Fitness

Reading the article ‘Trying to lose weight? Watch what you drink’ by Caitlin Hagan is really an eye-opening.

Nowadays people are bombarded with wide range of options for one specific item. Fifty years ago, a coffee is a simple concoction of hot water, coffee powder, sugar and milk as an optional ingredient. These days when you walk into a coffee shop, there are endless selections to choose stretching from hot to iced coffee and from simple to complex coffee concoctions.

If we don’t pay enough attention to what we drink, we are definitely sabotaging our goal to lose weight.  Let’s say you want to have more flavor to your plain coffee so you added a tablespoon of whipping cream.  Unknowingly you already padded the calories in your plain coffee as the whipping cream contains approximately 50 calories with 5 grams of fat.

You are aware that supermarkets and restaurants are flooded with liquid calorie options. To defend yourself from sabotaging your weight loss goal, it is important to start reading the labels of your drinks. As mentioned in the ‘Trying to lose weight? Watch what you drink’,  consuming an extra 500 calories every day for seven days will make you gain at least one pound a week.

Just an extra attention to what you drink will make a big difference in your goal to stay fit and healthy!

Read the full article, ‘Trying to lose weight? Watch what you drink‘ from CNN.com - Health.