When you become an aging baby boomer you find many good reasons to learn about the value of discovering ways to increase metabolism.  Some of these appear in the form of fat cells around your hips or stomach or as sagging muscle tone in most places!

Tony and I instigated a physical check up a couple of years back.  After recovering from the shock of learning that we were more unfit and overweight than we had allowed ourselves to believe, we took action in an effort to improve our lifestyle and extend our lives.  We started a daily walk, or run and interval training circuits.  We love the benefits of these and discovered these to be one of the most effective ways to increase metabolism.

But Tony was pleased to learn more from our doctor about including muscle building as part of our regular exercise regime.

'Why?’ I asked, imagining an over-developed Amazon about to take over my body.

‘Because’, came the reply ‘A pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat and if you have more muscle on your body, you will simply burn more calories as a result.’

As I wasn’t born with a rapid metabolism guzzling body, I need to work at maintaining a healthy weight, so with assurances that I would look better not bigger I agreed to build my muscles.  I wanted more muscle than fat.

We already owned a great muscle building guide called ‘Definition’ by well known fitness expert Dr Joyce Vendral.  Her updated DVD’s are even better.  We purchased inexpensive dumb bells and followed her easy program as part of our daily routine.

We started slowly and gradually increased our muscle building challenges. The great benefit for us was that once we started to build muscle our bodies did start burning more calories.  They had to, even while we slept, or went to a movie, or read a book. It was like putting our calorie-burning metabolism program on autopilot.

Yes we still enjoy cardiovascular exercise, because that’s ultimately how our body is going to burn existing fat.  But we’ve found that muscle building is one of the valuable ways to increase metabolism.

If two aging baby boomers can enjoy the metabolic benefits of a muscle building program any one can.  Muscle building has exponential benefits too.  The more fat you transform into muscle, the more calories you’ll burn simply to maintain that new muscle and the cycle goes on and on!

If you build muscle and then leave it alone, over time, the muscle fibers will weaken and you’ll lose that wonderful calorie-burning factory.  But that’s no problem, because all you need to do is to re-include some muscle building in your exercise routine and gradually re-build it. Go on, buy the dumb bells and get started.  You’ll love the results! 

Warm regards  

Rowena French

For theteam@MightyDigitalDownloads.com

Transforming Lives, One Person at a Time

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