Boost Your Metabolism

It's going to be old news for you to be reminded that exercising is a bit part of boosting your metabolism and burning up calories. 

Unless you're born with one of those unusually active metabolisms which allows you to, almost freakishly, eat thousands of calories a day without weight-gain consequences, you're like the vast majority of us who need to give your metabolisms a bit of a kick through exercising. 

Now, you might think that cardiovascular (aerobic) exercise is an important part of boosting your metabolism; and you'd be right! 

Provided that, of course, your qualified doctor confirms that you're able to start a program of cardiovascular exercise, this is indeed the place to start.  Increasing heart rate, blood circulation, body temperature, and oxygen intake/carbon dioxide exchange all send messages to the system to initiative catabolism (breaking down cells and using them for energy). 

Yet if cardiovascular exercising is the place to start, does that mean that it's the place to end?  No!

Many people, who aren't as educated as you'll be when you've finished this book, responsibly start a dedicated program of cardiovascular health, but they don't go any further.  Not because they're lazy; but because, frankly, they don't know that there is significantly more that they can do in their home gym, or at the fitness club, that will boost their metabolism even more potently. 

We focus upon these added activities now, below.