The Best Way to Lose Weight - Strong Legs Are Your Body's Fat Burning Engines

The best way to lose weight is to do the most work you can in a relatively short amount of time. Research shows that short, high-intensity workouts are the best for fat loss and muscle building. 

The most intense exercise involves your legs. Just think about it, sprinting, squatting, lunges, and box jumps are some of the hardest exercises to do. It's no wonder many of us shy away from these exercises as they are hard! But if you start to associate hard work with getting really fit, really fast soon you'll find yourself more inclined to take on the challenge.

Here is a bird's eye view of how exercise works. You exercise which strains your central nervous system (CNS). The CNS tells the body to react to this new stress that has been placed upon it. 

This reaction is the body building more muscle. This happens when you recover from your workout (while you are sleeping). The workout and the recovery draw on the bodies resources (fat stores).

So the more you stress your CNS, the more calories you burn during your workout, the more you body has to do to recover, resulting in more muscle built... all resulting in getting you fit faster. 

There is an added benefit to having more muscle too. The more muscle you carry on your physique the more calories you burn just sitting around doing nothing.

So where do the legs come in? Nothing stresses your CNS more than intense leg work. No amount of crunches or time spent on the elliptical machine will stress your system out the way deep squats or wind sprints will. 

Never mind that you are actually building that great butt you want when you do leg work, you are also burning all that fat away faster. You want great abs, train your legs. Here's another added benefit to leg work, one of the best core exercises, if not the best, is heavy squats.

Are you serious about getting fit? Do you want that beach body, and do you want it as fast as possible? The best way to lose weight and to do it quickly is intense leg work. When developing an effective diet and fitness plan, include regular, intense leg work and you'll see results fast.

One note on safety, make sure you don't rush in! It's good to ramp up over the course of a few weeks if not a few months to intense leg work. Are you flexible enough to squat deeply? Do you have good form when you do squat? How long has it been since you've actually sprinted? Stretch, do you mobility exercises, build up your strength slowly before going heavy, and build up your sprinting intensity over weeks or months before you do 100% effort. And, as always, check with your physician before starting any new diet and fitness program.

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Niall Traynor writes helpful tips on health, diet and fitness

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