Treadmill workout for burning fat?

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Simple formula is the pace at which you can keep talking with no trouble. Called conversation pace.. The actual heart rate will vary from person to person. Once you go over that pace and insulin is released your now burning insulin for your atp. Slow uphill...
 
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The only way to lose weight is the long game. Burn more calories than you take in every day. Get out and stay moving. I run, light weights, rowing machine for about an hour or so 3-4 times a week and keep my calories under my output. So many apps to help you keep track.
 

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Don't do Treadmill... do Elliptical, the Precor (doesn't subject your joints to all that shock). And try to use one with the handhold bars that you push/pull as well.

Well, check that, in the beginning, warm up on Treadmill for 5 min before you get back off and stretch EVERYTHING for 10-15min. Then you go back and to the Elliptical as follows:

1st... set Resistance to like 10, Incline to 10 or 11, I always did an Interval program.
Do 30mins... and try to maintain that resistance and incline for as long as you can. Then... once you start crappin' out and need a little let-off... bop the resistance down by 1 notch, then proceed to try to continue as long as you can at that new resistance level. Then, when ya feel like you're crappin' out again and need some let-off. bop it down again, etc. It's not quite as bad as it sound because of the cyclic reduction in resistance it's already doing because you chose an Interval program.

Observe the miles you attained. You want to try to see how far you can get past 6mi in the 30mins.

Once you've been doing that for a couple weeks, then, on a day when you don't really plan to do much lifting afterward... do a 60min session... same deal. Only you try to see how much more than 12mi you can get in before the 60min is up. On the 60min days... you'll likely find yourself getting down to resistance of 9 by the end... maybe even 8 if you haven't really done that type of stuff before.

Key is you gotta challenge yourself to last longer each time before finally needing to tap-out and reduce the settings a bit. Always try to be improving over the last time you did a session.

Days when I did the 30min... I'd then afterward walk it out, then boom... hit up ab work FIRST.. and always make sure you get all the variants of that in... then.. move on to everything else Keeping track of what you did y'day, so you can focus on other areas next day and alternate so each group of muscles has time to recup a lil before next time you hit em up again next time.

Remember this phrase "Abs are not made in the Gym... Abs are made in the kitchen!"

Once you begin this route... You're only drinking WATER. No Milk, No dairy, No juice etc. Just think of those in your mind as SUGAR and nothing more. NO Diet Sodas either! They'll just make you crave the bad stuff, so don't do it.

Do 6 meals evenly spaced throughout the day, each not much bigger than your fist. You can have as much green leafies as ya want. Most Salad Dressings are basically just sugar and oil. Barely use any of that. Better to use Olive oil + Lemon juice + Pepper. Use things like Romaine lettuce to wrap meats, instead of tortilla/bread.

No breads/starches. Think to yourself, if you fell outta the sky and landed in the RainForest.. what would you be eating? And only eat that.

Cook all your meals so you can control the salt/oil.

Any products that aren't whole foods? Look at Nutrition Information and calculate what percentage of the calories per serving size is coming from Fats. You're wanting your cals to come from Proteins first and foremost. Complex Carbs 2nd. Fats 3rd. Avoiding Saturated Fats all the time as best ya can.

Always give yourself tween 1.0 - 1.75 hrs for meals to digest FIRST...before you go to the Gym. And right after your workout? ASAP you want to get your Recovery drink/Protein drink in you, and soo as you get home, if not a meal time, then snack up on your healthy stuff so your bodyalwyas has a nice steady constant supply of the proteins available at anytime in your bloodstream.

And... probably the hardest to do? SLEEP!!! You must invest in blocking off big chunks of time so you can sleep proper and give your body the chance to repair. Otherwise you start "overtraining" and your strength and immune system will start getting taxed.

AVOID WATCHING TV ADS anywhere from 5pm-8pm!!! They will bombard the PHUQ out of you with pics of all the bad isht you need to NOT be thinking about like AT ALL.

If you're just totally spent and aren't gonna be able to cook for yourself and dont' have meals laid out in the fridge, A Carl's Jr Chicken Sandwich isn't too terribly bad. In the beginning, until you get close to your goal, don't eat the buns. And you can kiss fries goodbye for a loooooong time.

Once ya get more down to weight you're gunning for.... ok to allow some starches, but only as a pre-workout in order to provide your body with calories to use so it doesn't use the Protein you're also drinking with each of the meals.

Ya want at least.. at least... a gram of protein for Lbs of body weight. Little more is better, depends on how hard you're pushing it.

GNC Mega Men Sport Vitamin. 2 x day. Take with food so the fat-soluble vitamins get uptaken.

Do.....NOT.....Drink...Alcohol!!! Not until you're gettin' damn close to seeing those abs like ya want them to look. And then? You need to train your brain to remember the phrase "Pay to Play!". Once you're close to your goal.. You can elect to have that bad thing... but.. only if you're willing to commit to an extra amount of effort in your next workout session following it. You gotta "Pay" to "Play" get it?

P.S. Protein shakes chocked with lotta Strawberries/blueberries (you get the picture) are your friend.
 
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Suffice to say you will need to feel a little bit hungry at times to lose weight
I don't think you can make the point better than this. Get a mindset that being hungry is good because it means you are making progress towards your goal and you will see that progress on the scale.
 
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